2025 | Drexel Engineering

- New Exhibition Traces Drexel's Co-op and ROTC Origins Alongside WWI Military Engineer Training for Philadelphia College Students
  
  August 07, 2025
  A new exhibition in Drexel University’s Rincliffe Gallery explores the unique role of Army engineers during World War I, focusing on college-aged students in Philadelphia and institutions like Drexel, that played a role in supporting the war effort. Following the story of a local college student — from his training at the armory in Philadelphia to the trenches of the Western Front — the exhibition shows how vital engineers were to war effort and how pivoting to support U.S. involvement in WWI laid the foundation for Drexel’s distinctive experiential educational model.
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- Faculty Highlights: Recent Awards and Grants
  
  July 31, 2025
  Last term, Drexel University faculty members were recognized for their scholarly research and prolific academic and professional contributions.
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- How Are Coastal New Jersey Communities Communicating Hazards of Climate Change?
  
  July 30, 2025
  Recent climate-related crises — from severe storms and flooding to extreme heat — have raised new questions about how local governments communicate the risk of these crises and what they are doing to keep their citizens safe. To better understand what this communication looks like at local level, and the factors that may be shaping it, researchers from Drexel University analyzed climate resilience planning information available on the public-facing websites of 24 coastal communities in New Jersey that are contending with the effects of sea level rise. Their report, recently published in the Journal of Extreme Events, found wide variation in the number and extent of mitigation actions taken and how the websites describe causes of coastal hazards — for example, only half of the communities are acknowledging sea level rise as a contributing factor to these hazards.
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- Drexel to Lead $5 Million Multinational Effort to Produce MXene Materials for Water Desalination and Medical Diagnostics
  
  July 23, 2025
  Drexel University is embarking on a three-year, $5-million multinational collaboration to produce MXene nanomaterials. The project, which is a collaboration with Kalifa University in the United Arab Emirates, the University of Padua in Italy and the Kyiv, Ukraine-based MXene manufacturing company Carbon-Ukraine, seeks to use the promising nanomaterial, first discovered at Drexel, to provide clean drinking water for arid areas of the world threatened by climate change and improve cell labeling and tracking technology for biomedical analysis.
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- Drexel Engineers Want to Make Buildings More Energy Efficient by Making Walls, Floors and Ceilings More Like Elephant Ears
  
  July 16, 2025
  Drawing inspiration from the veinous ears of jackrabbits and elephants, Drexel University researchers have come up with a new approach to passive heating and cooling that could one day make buildings more energy efficient. Their concept, recently published in the Journal of Building Engineering, embeds a vascular network within cement-based building materials that, when filled with paraffin-based material, can help passively regulate the surface temperature of walls, floors and ceilings.
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- Transfer Student Turns New Connections into Career Growth
  
  July 14, 2025
  
  Sabina Rahmatova, a chemical engineering student, reflects on transferring to Drexel, building connections on campus, and discovering new possibilities through her first co-op and the hands-on experiences that followed.
  
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- When the World Changes, Drexel Changes With It
  
  July 09, 2025
  The University wasn’t founded with degree programs or the Drexel Co-op. In fact, it wasn’t even founded as “Drexel University.”
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- Spotting Bad Batteries Before They Malfunction
  
  June 25, 2025
  A recent uptick in battery-related fires has drawn attention to the challenge of identifying defects that can cause these catastrophic malfunctions, but are rarely obvious to the naked eye. In hopes of preventing the dangerous glitches that can cause batteries to overheat and catch fire, researchers from Drexel University have developed a standard testing process to give manufacturers a better look at the internal workings of batteries.
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- Zheng Named Pei Chi Chou Term Assistant Professor
  
  June 25, 2025
  
  Zheng's work explores the mechanics of soft materials and mechanical metamaterials with applications in soft robotics, biomedical systems, and smart structures.
  
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- Drexel Engineering Celebrates Class of 2025 Commencement
  
  June 16, 2025
  
  The ceremony recognized graduates who completed their degrees during a time of rapid change at the university and in the world.
  
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