March 31, 2014
If you grew up in the United States or any developed country during the past century, you probably didn’t spend much time worrying about typhoid fever. And for that, you can thank physician John L. Leal and sanitary engineer George Warren Fuller.
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March 25, 2014
Drexel alumnus, 2006 Engineering Leader of the Year and emeritus faculty member of the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department, Dr. Robert M. Koerner, ‘56 ‘63 and spouse Paula W. Koerner have donated a total of $50,000 to the College of Engineering to help support Drexel Engineering graduate students from their fund named, “The Koerner Family Awards for Graduate Students in the College of Engineering.” The fund will benefit graduate students Chris Barr, Ben Cohen, Jefferson A. Cuadra, Caitlin Dillard, Douglas Goetz, Cole Smith, Mark Winter, and James Worcester. The students represent each engineering department and were selected by Dr. Joseph Hughes, dean of the College of Engineering.
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March 24, 2014
Professor Michele Marcolongo has been appointed department head of Drexel’s Materials Science and Engineering, effective January 1, 2014.
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March 21, 2014
The work of the Nanomaterials Group has been featured on the back cover of Energy & Environmental Science.
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March 20, 2014
In the 2014 U.S. News and World Report ranking of “Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs,” Drexel is ranked 29, up 6 places from the previous year. The emphasis in the survey's methodology was slightly different this year, giving more weight to student engagement, faculty credentials and training and student services and technology over peer reputation and admissions selectivity.
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March 20, 2014
Construction Management student Isreal Simmons was awarded the AACEI (Advanced Association of Cost Engineering International), Delaware Valley Chapter Scholarship in April 2012.
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March 20, 2014
Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos has been named A.W. Grosvenor Professor, as of January 2014.
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March 19, 2014
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March 19, 2014
B.S./M.S. student William MacLuckie (advisor: Steven May) is one of ten students to receive a 2014-2015 Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation Ferrous Metallurgy Education Today (FeMET) Scholarship.
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March 18, 2014
Department Head and Professor Michele Marcolongo has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
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March 17, 2014
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March 17, 2014
It’s the responsibility of an engineer to help make the world a better place by improving the quality of life for developing communities, Bernard Amadei, PhD, told Drexel students, faculty and staff last week. His actions certainly back up that claim.
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March 17, 2014
Drexel Materials researchers are turning some of the basic tenets of chemistry and physics upside down to cut a trail toward the discovery of a new set of materials. They’re called “polar metals” and, according to many of the scientific principles that govern the behavior of atoms, they probably shouldn’t exist.
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March 14, 2014
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March 13, 2014
Caitlin Dillard, a PhD student in Prof. Vibha Kalra's lab, has been awarded the Koerner Family Fellowship for the second time in a row. The Koerner fellowship was established through the generosity of Professor Robert Koerner and his family.
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March 13, 2014
Chau Tran is the recipient of the William A. Casey Memorial Award for excellence in PhD Research in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department.
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March 11, 2014
A team of 45 Drexel University freshmen engineering students are creating a simple plan to break the world record for a most-elaborate machine. As part of the Philadelphia Science Festival, the students, with the support of The Franklin Institute, Dow Chemical and several local partner organizations are trying to take down a two-year-old Guinness World Record for the largest Rube Goldberg machine –a cartoonish device that uses multiple, often absurdly over-engineered reactions, to complete a simple task.
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March 06, 2014
What does a machine with more than 400 steps look like? You can find out during the Philadelphia Science Festival.
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March 04, 2014
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