My team and I are planning a robust series of events for the remainder of 2023, both to celebrate the research being done by engineering faculty, staff, and students, and to provide expanded opportunities for engagement with past, present, and potential research collaborators from across the University. The series will kick off with an event highlighting the work being done by this year’s recipients of the Longsview Fellowships and the Carleone Faculty Awards on the afternoon of April 12. More details will be shared soon, but in the meantime, please save the date! I look forward to seeing you at both this and future events. 

Jin Wen, PhD 

Drexel is launching a new Neurodivergent Colleague Resource Group for faculty and staff who identify as neurodivergent. The group is looking for neurodivergent faculty and staff to serve on a panel for their launch event in April. If you identify as neurodivergent and would like to be on the panel, or you would like more information about the group, please contact Sarah Nannery (sef82@drexel.edu) or Karen Shore (kes325@drexel.edu) for more information!

The College of Engineering's next generation virtual labs have entered the testing phase. These new labs are being designed to replace our existing ENGRAPPS and other on-campus remote desktop solutions. Faculty, TAs and students are encouraged to test them out. To get a preview of the labs and to give them a test run, follow the instructions on Teams.

Join Rajashi Ghosh, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Resource Development and Department Chair of the Policy, Organization, and Leadership department, for a Drexel Engineering-tailored hybrid brown bag lunch workshop about how to take a self-directed approach to managing your career through mentoring. This talk will share the latest research and practice of different types of Mentoring Models (e.g., Traditional and Relational Dyadic Mentoring, Developmental Networks with Senior, Peer, Reverse Mentors from professional and personal life domains, Mentoring Episodes), challenges inherent in Diversified Mentoring Relationships, and critical issues concerning E-mentoring. Faculty, staff and grad students are welcome to attend the session, which will be held Tuesday, March 21 at 11:30 a.m. in

Hill Seminar Room and over Zoom. For more information and to register, see the announcement in Teams.

Afshin Daryoush, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was named a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Member. NAI is a member organization comprising U.S. and international universities, governmental agencies, and non-profit research institutes. NAI’s mission is to recognize and encourage inventors with U.S. patents, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative students, and to create a wider public understanding of how its members’ inventions benefit society. Daryoush is being recognized as an academic inventor who is a rising leader in his field with success in patents, licensing, and commercialization and for producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. 

Steven Weber, PhD, vice provost for Undergraduate Curriculum and Education, and Youngmoo Kim, PhD, director of the ExCITe Center, were quoted in a March 6 Chronicle of Higher Education story about how universities are responding to advances in artificial intelligence technology, like ChatGPT.

Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor and Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, was quoted in a Feb. 25 Design News story about his research to develop a textile-based energy storage device using MXene materials.

NSF 

Safe Learning-Enabled Systems 

DCL: Bioinspired Design Collaborations to Accelerate the Discovery-Translation Process (BioDesign) 

Department of Health and Human Services: Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program: RERC on Rehabilitation Strategies, Techniques, and Interventions 

NSF is hosting the 2023 Research Infrastructure Webinar Series in three parts that will focus on developing basic knowledge and skills on project management methods applied to planning and performance management of mid-scale R1 projects consistent with NSF's Research Infrastructure Guide. This first webinar, Mid-scale Project Planning & Management, was held last month, but you can find the presentation here. You find more information on the remaining webinars and register here. 

NSF released a number of system updates in Research.gov, FastLane, and Grants.gov in accordance with the implementation of the revised Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) for proposals submitted or due on or after January 30, 2023. Please review the full announcement here. 

NSF Request for Information on Future Directions for the NSF Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Program 

Applications for Lockheed Martin's STEM Scholarship Program for undergraduate students and Vocational Scholarship are open until March 31, 2023. Please share this with anybody who may be eligible and interested.