2016 | Drexel Engineering

- A Celebrated History of Drexel Olympians and Paralympians
  
  August 10, 2016
  A Drexel alum is currently in Rio for his second Summer Olympics, thus becoming the most recent in a line of Drexel Dragons who have repeatedly competed in the Olympic and Paralympic games.
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- Making a Solar Energy Breakthrough With Help From a Ferroelectrics Pioneer
  
  August 08, 2016
  Designers of solar cells may soon be setting their sights higher, as a discovery by a team of researchers has revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into energy than those currently being used in solar arrays. Their research shows how a material can be used to extract power from a small portion of the sunlight spectrum with a conversion efficiency that is above its theoretical maximum — a value called the Shockley-Queisser limit. This finding, which could lead to more power-efficient solar cells, was seeded in a near-half-century old discovery by Russian physicist Vladimir M. Fridkin, PhD, a visiting professor of physics at Drexel University, who is also known as one of the innovators behind the photocopier.
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- Drexel's Microswimmer Robots Can Work Together — And Apart
  
  July 28, 2016
  Drexel University researchers, led by MinJun Kim, PhD, a professor in the College of Engineering, have successfully pulled off a feat that both sci-fi fans and Michael Phelps could appreciate. Using a rotating magnetic field they show how multiple chains of microscopic magnetic bead-based robots can link up to reach impressive speeds swimming through a liquid. Their finding is the latest step toward using the so-called “microswimmers” to deliver medicine and perform surgery inside the body.
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- Heard Around Campus – July
  
  July 27, 2016
  Even with the heat waves and scorching temperatures, a lot has been accomplished and changed at Drexel over the past month. Take a look at what’s been heard around campus (hopefully, with an iced drink on your desk) and catch up on all the happenings at Drexel.
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- Drexel in the Top 50 of Worldwide List for Patents
  
  July 20, 2016
  Drexel was named 49th on a list of worldwide universities granted patents released by The National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association, placing amidst some of the biggest names in innovation.
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- Graduate Student Day Honors Research, Dissertations and Promise
  
  June 01, 2016
  Master’s and doctoral students were recognized at Graduate Student Day for their accomplishments throughout the year.
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- Drexel and Army Research Lab Forge a Partnership
  
  May 25, 2016
  Drexel University researchers will now have the opportunity to work alongside scientists from the Army Research Lab — the Army's central laboratory. The institutions recently signed an agreement that formally connects Drexel as an ARL "open campus" for research. With this agreement, the University strives to engage a diverse and wide-ranging network of faculty in collaborative efforts with ARL entities.
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- Making Some of the World's Most Durable Materials Corrosion-Resistant
  
  May 25, 2016
  Borides are among the hardest and most heat-resistant substances on the planet, but their Achilles’ Heel, like so many materials’, is that they oxidize at high temperatures. Oxidation is the chemical reaction commonly known as corrosion or rusting — it can signal the end for a material’s structural integrity. But researchers from Drexel University, Linkoping University in Sweden and Imperial College London have produced an aluminum-layered boride whose unique behavior at high temperatures keeps it one step ahead of nature’s slow march toward high- temperature chemical degradation.
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- Celebrating the Best of Drexel’s Historic Co-op Program in 2016
  
  May 06, 2016
  Drexel’s annual Cooperative Education Awards honored outstanding co-op students and employers alike.
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- Celebrating All Drexel Authors
  
  April 27, 2016
  For the fourth year, the Office of the Provost and Drexel Libraries highlighted the work of Drexel’s authors and editors. This year, for the first time, published students were honored along with faculty and staff.
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