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  • Ariana Levitt and Carli Moorehead

    Drexel Materials Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

    March 31, 2017

    PhD student Ariana Levitt (advisor: Caroline Schauer) and BS/MS student Carli Moorehead (BS Biomedical Engineering, MS Drexel Materials; advisor: Michele Marcolongo) are two of four current Drexel University students selected as 2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows.

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  • Drexel Is Helping the FAA Modernize Technical Training

    March 30, 2017

    As a core member of a new Center of Excellence focused on modernizing the training of air traffic controllers and their colleagues, Drexel researchers are doing their part to keep your flight safe and efficient.

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  • MANTA Team Photo

    Senior Design Team Develops MANTA

    March 28, 2017

    Like all good ideas, the MANTA came to life to solve a practical problem. Daniel Diazdelcastillo ’17 was on his co-op at Hyperloop One in Los Angeles when he visited Long Beach, Calif., last summer [2016] and noticed pockets of trash in the water. He, being an engineer, immediately wondered if “there is an autonomous system to clean up trash on water?” Before long, he had partnered with Aryaman Sinha ’17, Alexander Ly ’17, Elisabeth Wagner ’17 and Nicholas Philips ’17 for Senior Design Project.

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  • PMI REP

    Drexel University Approved as Registered Education Provider by Project Management Institute

    March 23, 2017

    Drexel University’s College of Engineering today announces that the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s largest project management member association, has named it as a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) effective March 1, 2017.

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  • Progress Report: Drexel’s Research Laboratory Plan Project

    March 22, 2017

    Many of the lab renovations in Drexel’s Research Laboratory Plan have been completed and are being used to further the University’s research efforts.

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  • Employee Spotlight: John Via

    March 22, 2017

    The College of Engineering’s John Via occupies many roles at Drexel and even more positions within various philanthropic organizations — and just joined one that is headed by Queen Elizabeth II.

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  • Art and Tech Innovator John Maeda to Speak at Drexel Commencement at Citizens Bank Park

    March 20, 2017

    Computational design guru John Maeda will address the class of 2017 at Drexel University’s commencement, which will be held on June 13 at 7:30 p.m. Maeda is the global head of Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic, the parent company of Jetpack, WooCommerce, Longreads, WordPress.com and more. The University-wide ceremony will be held at Citizens Bank Park for the second consecutive year.

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  • CoE Students Win IEEE Philadelphia Award

    March 20, 2017

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Philadelphia Section has awarded five students from Electrical and Computer Engineering with the Section Student Project Award.

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  • CAEE Student receives scholarship from ASCE

    March 17, 2017

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    Drexel's 40 Under 40 Recognizes Seven Engineers

    March 17, 2017

    The College of Engineering is proud to report that seven engineering alumni have made it on to this year's list. For this year's annual 40 Under 40 at Drexel University, over 200 stories were submitted and the variety was impressive.

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    C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni Awarded 2017 Engineering Leader of the Year Award

    March 17, 2017

    C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni, founder and Chairman of Pennoni Associates Inc., Consulting Engineers, was awarded the 2017 Engineering Leader of the Year Award on Thursday, March 9 at the Logan Hotel Philadelphia.

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  • Dr. Michael C. Grady and Mr. Chris Owen Receive 2016 Outstanding Alumni Awards

    March 14, 2017

    The Chemical and Biological Engineering Department Awards Committee at Drexel University would like to congratulate Dr. Michael C. Grady and Mr. Chris Owen on receiving 2016 Outstanding Alumni Awards.

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  • Alumna Ranjita Bose Accepts Faculty Position at the University of Groningen, Netherlands

    March 10, 2017

    Dr. Ranjita Bose, a former Ph.D. student of Prof. Ken Lau, has been accepted as a tenure track assistant professor in the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

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    The College of Engineering Announces 2017 Award Winners

    March 06, 2017

    The College of Engineering is proud to acknowledge and award the following individuals for their outstanding service to the College and the University in the past year.

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  • light in ferroelectric insulator

    Lighting the Path to Efficient Solar Energy

    March 03, 2017

    Recent work from the Mesoscale Materials Laboratory shows how light can transform a ferroelectric insulator into a high-mobility electronic conductor, remarkably, at room temperature.

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  • Ahmad Arabi Shamsabadi Receives Joseph Carleone Endowed Award

    March 02, 2017

    Congratulations to Ahmad Arabi Shamsabadi for being awarded the Joseph Carleone Endowed Award for the 16-17 Academic Year. Ahmad was nominated by the CBE department for this award.

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    Li Receives NSF Grant for Crystal Structure Research for Potential Drug Delivery Applications

    March 02, 2017

    Materials Professor Christopher Li is the principal investigator on a new National Science Foundation grant, “Confined and Directed Polymer Crystallization at Curved Liquid/Liquid Interface.” Li's recent findings on crystallization were reported in Nature Communications last year.

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  • Faculty Profile: Dr. Steve Wrenn

    March 01, 2017

    Dr. Steven Wrenn’s parents grew up on tobacco farms in North Carolina. Each parent left the farm to attend college, and each enjoyed a career as an educator...

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