2013 | Drexel Engineering

- Top Stories of 2013
  
  December 18, 2013
  We’ve tried to round up some of the Drexel news that most shaped the year 2013, on campus and off.
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- Opening AJ Drexel Institute for Energy and the Environment
  
  December 16, 2013
  Drexel University is opening a new research institute that will strive to answer some of the most challenging questions about energy and environmental sustainability facing the nation today.
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- Icarus Interstellar Chapter
  
  December 02, 2013
  Damien Turchi and his colleagues aim to boldly go way, way farther than anyone has gone before — no matter that they're still students at Drexel.
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- SEED Lab Receives Gates Foundation Grant
  
  November 26, 2013
  A team of students from Drexel's College of Engineering, led by Alexander J. Moseson, PhD, an assistant teaching professor in the College and director of the Sustainable Engineering and Entrepreneurship for Development (SEED) Lab are among the latest recipients of a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Grand Challenge Explorations initiative, which funds innovative global health and development research, will help the team continue its work to create transformative farming tools for female smallhold farmers in Thailand.
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- Drexel and Penn Engineers Team Up to Develop New Materials For Solar Cells
  
  November 11, 2013
  For solar panels, wringing every drop of energy from as many photons as possible is imperative. This goal has sent chemistry, materials science and electronic engineering researchers on a quest to boost the energy-absorption efficiency of photovoltaic devices, but existing techniques are now running up against limits set by the laws of physics.
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- Justin Mathew Graduate Student Profile
  
  November 01, 2013
  At least one time, Justin Mathew's dual role has forced him to sprint through Drexel hallways from one job to another. But it's worth it, he says, to break out of the graduate-student bubble, and help others to do the same.
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- Mantua Urban Peace Garden
  
  October 30, 2013
  What was once a vacant lot in West Philadelphia’s Mantua neighborhood is now a vegetable-filled garden, thanks in part to Drexel. And with more help from the University, the site may be transformed even further in the future.
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- Concrete Canoe
  
  October 16, 2013
  How tough is it to build a functional canoe out of concrete? Ask the members of the Drexel concrete canoe team, a group of engineering students that puts in hours and hours of work before a competition each spring.
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- More possibilities for MXenes
  
  September 30, 2013
  About three years after discovering a new two-dimensional material just one atom thick, Drexel researchers are finding more capabilities for the sheets they’ve dubbed “MXenes.” Possibilities include the storage of huge amounts of energy and use in flexible, wearable devices.
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- Expanding MXene Materials Research
  
  September 26, 2013
  Drexel University researchers are continuing to expand the capabilities and functionalities of a family of two-dimensional materials they discovered that are just a few atoms thick, but have the potential to store massive amounts of energy. Their latest achievement has pushed the materials storage capacities to new levels while also allowing for their use in flexible devices.
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