December 18, 2015
Architectural engineering doctoral student Adam Regnier and his startup company Kinetic Buildings, was a recent winner of the Catalyst Energy Innovation Demo Day on December 10, 2015, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) and held at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. This Demo Day is part of the DOE’s four stage Catalyst Energy Innovation Prize Program “designed to accelerate ubiquitous, affordable solar energy and energy-efficient building technology deployment by connecting American innovators to the tools, capabilities, data sets, and resources developed by the Energy Department and its national laboratories. The competition leverages each of these assets to boost cutting-edge clean tech companies and tackle time-sensitive market challenges.”
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December 17, 2015
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December 17, 2015
Running across liquid, making ice cream in seconds, and bendable glass may
sound like special effects from a movie, but these “tricks” can be attributed
to the very real field of materials science and engineering. The general
public has the opportunity to try these and more at the annual Philly Materials
Science and Engineering Day (Philly Materials Day), to be hosted at Drexel
University.
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December 16, 2015
A team of researchers, led by Drexel Materials Professor Jonathan Spanier, recently published its discovery that it is possible to control UV light production via a chemical reaction that functions like flipping a light switch.
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December 16, 2015
A bit of stray moisture during an experiment tipped off scientists about the strange behavior of a complex oxide material they were studying—shedding light on its potential for improving chemical sensors, computing and information storage. In the presence of a water molecule on its surface, the layered material emits ultraviolet light from its interior. A team of researchers from Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Berkeley, and Temple University recently published its discovery that it is possible to control UV light production via a chemical reaction that functions like flipping a light switch.
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December 16, 2015
A bit of stray moisture during an experiment tipped off scientists about the strange behavior of a complex oxide material they were studying—shedding light on its potential for improving chemical sensors, computing and information storage. In the presence of a water molecule on its surface, the layered material emits ultraviolet light from its interior. A team of researchers from Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Berkeley, and Temple University recently published its discovery that it is possible to control UV light production via a chemical reaction that functions like flipping a light switch.
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December 14, 2015
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December 11, 2015
College of Engineering associate professor, Franco Montalto, Ph.D., was one of eight Drexel University representatives to attend the annual Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris, France. This year’s COP21 was unique in that for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, the goal was to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C or potentially 1.5.
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December 11, 2015
Drexel University and Michelin North America have announced the winner of the Connected Mobility Challenge, a six-week competition to identify innovative solutions with the potential to impact people and their mobility and change the transportation industry.
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December 08, 2015
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December 08, 2015
Do you know how easy it is to improve the quality of the air you breathe every day? Or how much indoor air quality affects your health and productivity? If you’re not sure, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey by a group of Drexel University environmental and architectural engineering researchers, there is quite a bit of confusion about the costs and benefits of indoor air quality improvement—even among building owners, designers, managers and tenants.
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December 07, 2015
Do you know how easy it is to improve the quality of the air you breathe every day? Or how much indoor air quality affects your health and productivity? If you’re not sure, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey by a group of Drexel University environmental and architectural engineering researchers, there is quite a bit of confusion about the costs and benefits of indoor air quality improvement—even among building owners, designers, managers and tenants.
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December 07, 2015
Bruce Eisenstein, Ph.D., Vice Dean of the College of Engineering and Arthur J. Rowland Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been inducted into the IEEE Technical Activities Board Hall of Honor.
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December 03, 2015
Fengshuo Hu, CBE Ph.D. Candidate, was invited to present his research work at the CAMX 2015 conference as a finalist in 2015 SAMPE University Research Program (PhD category).
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December 03, 2015
Drexel's Engineering Management Program ranked #7 in the nation according to Graduate Programs.
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December 02, 2015
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December 01, 2015
In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, members of Yury Gogotsi's Nanomaterials Group teamed up with researchers from Deakin University in Australia to manufacture and test a new material that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents.
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