The new Teaching and Learning Center site is live. The goal of the new website is to facilitate navigation and better highlight TLC’s workshops, programs, services, and resources. Check back often, as TLC will add new workshops and resources throughout the year.

The Drexel Society of Women Engineers will host their annual Lives and Lessons conference virtually on Saturday, November 6. The goal of the Lives & Lessons conference is to raise the voices of those who are underrepresented in their field and to spread awareness of some of the challenges they face. SWE is seeking panelists for the conference who can share anecdotes, provide facts and information, express their points of view, motivate, inspire, and reveal the truth that minorities in engineering face real problems that no individual can solve on their own. Those interested in serving on a panel can fill out SWE’s interest form.

The College of Engineering Marketing and Communications (MarCom) team helps tell the incredible stories of student success, faculty expertise, alumni engagement and everything else that makes Drexel Engineering special. For information on how to best get your news out there to all the different audiences that MarCom serves, please refer to the newly updated MarCom Guide. There you can find tips and procedures for advertising, storytelling, social media and more. We look forward to working with you!

Christopher Li, PhD, professor of materials science and engineering, along with Co-PIs Marina Potapova, PhD (CoAS/ANS - BEES); Vibha Kalra, PhD, professor of chemical and biological engineering; Lin Han (Biomed) and Craig Johnson, Director of Operations, Materials Characterization Core (MCC) are the recipients of a two-year NSF grant, “MRI: Acquisition of an advanced scanning electron microscope for in situ and in operando materials characterization and education.” The grant will provide Drexel with the acquisition of a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope (SEM) designed for advanced imaging and analysis, replacing an out-of-date SEM, and having a positive long-term impact on the research community.

Additionally, Li is a Co-PI on a second grant with lead institution University of Pennsylvania, “FMRG: Eco: Sustainable Route to 3D Solid-State Sodium-ion Battery by Direct Ink Writing and Capillary Rise Infiltration,” awarded through NSF’s Future Eco Manufacturing program. The four-year project focuses on new manufacturing routes for sodium-ion batteries.

Gail Rosen, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the recipient of a three-year NSF grant, “III: Small: Learning Multi-scale Sequence Features for Predicting Gene to Microbiome Function.” Attributing which “configurations” of organisms and/or genes contribute to a particular “microbiome state” can help to predict disease, understand how the environment may change microbial ecosystems, and be able to predict future changes of these systems (e.g. perturbations due to a chemical, temperature, etc.). This project will develop a recurrent neural network that can learn both community-level changes in the microbiome and genetic changes that relate to microbiome phenotypes. This technology has the potential to improve agriculture, environmental monitoring, and personalized medicine, among others.

Franco Montalto, PhD, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, was interviewed in a September 13 WPVI-TV news segment about what Philadelphia can do to make its infrastructure more resilient against the effects of climate change, including flooding.

Abieyuwa Aghayere, PhD, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, was quoted in a September 9 Miami Herald story about a contractor who had worked on the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo complex later losing his license due to fraud and negligence claims.

Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor in materials science and engineering, was quoted in a September 2 Popular Mechanics story about a type of long-lasting battery that uses radioactive diamonds.

Rolling Deadline

Rolling Deadline

Full Proposal Deadline: October 6, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: October 7, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: October 11, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: October 18, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: November 10, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: November 16, 2021

Preliminary Proposal (required) Deadline: November 22, 2021

Letter of Intent (required) Deadline: December 14, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: January 18, 2022

See solicitation for deadlines by Directorate

See DCL for more details regarding submission

See DCL for more details regarding submission

See DCL for more details regarding submission

See DCL for more details regarding submission

Full Proposal Deadline: October 8, 2021

The conference will be held from October 4 – October 8, 2021. You can register at any time prior to the conference.

See DCL for response requirements.

The submission deadline is November 1, 2021.

See RFI for response requirements.

Drexel Global Classrooms and Intensive Courses Abroad: Successful proposals by faculty to teach first Global Classrooms or Intensive Courses Abroad will receive a stipend and program support from the Office of Global Engagement.