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  • Co-op Profile-Andre White

    July 31, 2012

    Mechanical engineering junior Andre White, who is currently on co-op with Boeing, says Drexel's co-op program arms students with an "extra notch of competitiveness."

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  • Ph.D. Student Michael Naguib Abdelmalak Awarded DAAD Research Grant

    July 31, 2012

    Ph.D. student Michael Naguib Abdelmalak has received a three-month research grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

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  • Zavaliangos Receives Donation from the International Fine Particles Research Institute

    July 30, 2012

    Department Head and Professor Antonios Zavaliangos received a $36K donation from the International Fine Particles Research Institute (IFPRI) in support of his research work on the compaction of fine powders mixtures.

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  • "Diving Board" Sensors Key to DNA Detection

    July 27, 2012

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  • Zavaliangos Receives Grant from Abbott Laboratories

    July 27, 2012

    Department Head and Professor Antonios Zavaliangos has received a $270,420 grant from Abbott Laboratories for “Discrete Element Method for Phramaceutical Powder Compaction: Medelling and Experiments.”

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  • Diving Board Sensor Key to DNA Detection

    July 26, 2012

    A tiny vibrating cantilever sensor could soon help doctors and field clinicians quickly detect harmful toxins, bacteria and even indicators of certain types of cancer from small samples of blood or urine. Researchers from Drexel University are in the process of refining a sensor technology that they developed to measure samples at the cellular level into an accurate method for quickly detecting traces of DNA in liquid samples.

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  • "Diving Board" Sensors Key to DNA Detection

    July 26, 2012

    A tiny vibrating cantilever sensor could soon help doctors and field clinicians quickly detect harmful toxins, bacteria and even indicators of certain types of cancer from small samples of blood or urine.

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  • Engineering Students Go Global through Drexel Engineering Summer in Germany

    July 26, 2012

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  • Spanier and Colleagues Publish Papers in Advanced Functional Materials and ACS Nano

    July 26, 2012

    Professor Jonathan Spanier and colleagues have had two papers published in important materials journals.

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  • Paul Oh Receives NSF Grant to Develop Mobile Manipulating UAV Technology

    July 25, 2012

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  • Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Professor Featured in IEEE Spectrum

    July 25, 2012

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  • It was a Great Time to be an Engineer

    July 19, 2012

    A country often looks to engineers to solve its problems. At the height of the Cold War thousands of American engineers worked at a fervent pace to develop technologies to beat the Soviet Union; few fully understood how much their actions would impact future generations.

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  • Kapil Dandekar

    Dr. Kapil Dandekar wins IEEE Educational Activities Meritorious Service Citation

    July 19, 2012

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  • Drexel Professors Receive NSF Grant to enhance Biomechanical Engineering Curriculum

    July 18, 2012

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  • Drexel Professors Receive NSF Grant to Enhance Biomechanical Engineering Curriculum

    July 18, 2012

    Four Drexel University Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics professors were awarded a Transforming Undergraduate Education grant by the National Science Foundation to develop an improved biomechanical engineering curriculum at Drexel. The NSF proposal titled, Integrating Biomechanical Engineering Research and Design and a Co-operative Education was developed by professor Alisa Morss Clyne, with assistance from James Tangorra, Hongseok Noh, and Wei Sun.

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  • Co-op Profile Amanda Pentecost

    July 18, 2012

    Drexel senior Amanda Pentecost is currently in China working at the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI). She is the first student to take part in the Drexel-SARI partnership.

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  • Li and Colleague Receive NSF Grant to Study Janus Nanoparticles

    July 18, 2012

    Professors Christopher Li and Ying Sun of Mechanical Engineering receive a grant to investigate improvements to printing functional nanoparticles on to flexible substrates.

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  • Sifting Liquid Using Nanotubes

    July 17, 2012

    Drexel University engineers continue to drive research into the use of carbon nanotubes, straw-like structures that are more than 1,000 times thinner than a single human hair. Their most recent development uses the tiny tubes to separate liquids within a solution.

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  • “Sifting” Liquid at the Cellular Level

    July 16, 2012

    Distinguished University and Trustee Chair Professor Yury Gogotsi and colleagues continue to drive research into the use of carbon nanotubes.

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  • “Sifting” Liquid at the Cellular Level

    July 13, 2012

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  • Julianne Holloway Receives Most Promise Doctoral Award

    July 12, 2012

    Julianne Holloway, CBE PhD Candidate, was awarded a 2012 Most Promise Doctoral Award based on her dissertation work titled, "Development and Characterization of UHMWPE Fiber-Reinforced Hydrogels for Meniscal Replacement".

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  • The Best: Drexel Computer Science Students Claim World Championship at Microsoft Imagine Cup Tech Design Competition

    July 11, 2012

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  • Computer Science Design Team Wins Microsoft Imagine Cup World Championship

    July 11, 2012

    The group, dubbed team “Drexel Dragons,” won the game design mobile category with a smartphone app that turns learning math concepts into a fun game.

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  • Making "Renewable" Viable: Drexel Engineers Develop New Technology for Grid-Level Electrical Energy Storage

    July 10, 2012

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  • Obama-Singh Grant Links Drexel University and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in Microbial Contamination Research

    July 10, 2012

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  • Engineers Develop New Grid-Level Energy Storage Technology

    July 10, 2012

    In the aftermath of the recent United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the focus of many industrialized nations is beginning to shift toward planning for a sustainable future. One of the foremost challenges for sustainability is efficient use of renewable energy resources, a goal that hinges on the ability to store this energy when it is produced and disburse it when it is needed.

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  • Obama-Singh Grant Links Drexel University and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in Microbial Contamination Research

    July 10, 2012

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  • 2012 CBE SAMPE Symposium Winners

    July 09, 2012

    Arianna Watters and James Throckmorton traveled to Baltimore, MD to compete in the SAMPE University Research Symposium in May 2012.

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  • Dr. Youngmoo Kim Nominated for Geekadelphia’s “Scientist of the Year” Award

    July 09, 2012

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  • Drexel Engineering Receives Obama Singh grant

    July 09, 2012

    An educational initiative, jointly funded by India and the United States, has paired Drexel University with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to create a resource for assessing the human health risks of microbial contamination.

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  • Drexel Engineering Golf Tournament Benefits Scholars

    July 06, 2012

    Alumni, donors, faculty, professional staff and students participated in the Drexel Engineering Golf Tournament on June 25 at the Huntingdon Valley Country Club to benefit the Drexel Engineering scholarship fund.

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  • Drexel Engineering Golf Tournament Benefits Scholars

    July 06, 2012

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  • Walnut Hill

    Students Engineer Sustainable Solutions at Walnut Hill Farm

    July 05, 2012

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  • Student Rocket Launch

    July 02, 2012

    The project is designed to capture energy from the vibrations of the rocket during launch.

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