2014 | Drexel Engineering

- Drexel Awarded $1.45 Million UTeach Grant to Recruit, Train New Teachers in STEM Disciplines
  
  February 17, 2014
  As part of the UTeach program, Drexel will step up to help address the nation's STEM education crisis.
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- NSF vizualization challenge
  
  February 06, 2014
  The team of Drexel University engineers who came up with a way to knit an energy storage device have now been recognized by the National Science Foundation for their skill in showing how they did it.
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- Winter Olympian
  
  February 05, 2014
  Thailand's second- and third-ever Winter Olympians will compete this month in Sochi. Who was the first? Prawat Nagvajara, a Drexel computer engineering professor.
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- Engineering and Math Challenge
  
  February 03, 2014
  It was a problem involving building blocks, tough enough to stump doctoral students. But Philadelphia high- and middle-school students tackled it admirably at a challenge presented by Drexel's Math Forum last week.
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- Discover Top 100 Stories
  
  January 31, 2014
  Joshua Jacobs used to study computers, but they weren’t quite complex enough for his taste. So he moved on to examining a much more complicated instrument: the human brain.
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- Building Collapse Commission
  
  January 23, 2014
  Bob Brehm came to Drexel to get away from the news cameras, but he found himself in front of them after Philadelphia's deadly Market Street building collapse in June 2013. Now he and another Drexel professor, Scott Gabriel Knowles, are stepping up to help the city in the collapse's wake.
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- DU-CHOP-HU Symposium
  
  January 17, 2014
  When researchers from Drexel, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Hebrew University of Jerusalem come together next week, leaders hope the result will be new research "dream teams" that can tackle pediatric problems in new ways.
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- Stephen Cox BEYA Honor
  
  January 17, 2014
  Stephen Cox believes that all students can succeed, if given the opportunity. But he's had no trouble finding people who disagree.
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- Drexel Ventures Selects Inaugural Proof-of-Concept Projects
  
  January 09, 2014
  In its first round of proof-of-concept funding, Drexel Ventures — the University’s new technology accelerator and transfer enterprise — is supporting research that could lead to improved solar cells, new drug therapy for treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, safer chemicals for oil extraction and smarter software system monitoring.
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