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  • Meet Seven Faculty Helping to Run the University This Year

    February 29, 2016

    The Provost Fellows program is back and bigger than before with seven fellows selected this year to assist with a packed agenda of University initiatives.

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  • KAIST Drexel Meeting 2.26.16

    KAIST Professors Visit Drexel

    February 29, 2016

    Professors from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the National Nanofabrication Center (NNFC) visited the College of Engineering on February 24-26, the next step in solidifying the new research collaboration between the two institutions.

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  • Sergey and Yuriy Smolin Recieve College of Engineering’s 2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Award

    February 26, 2016

    Congratulations to Sergey and Yuriy Smolin, CBE Ph.D. candidates, for receiving the 2016 College of Engineering’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

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  • Andrea Falcone Recieves College of Engineering’s 2016 Outstanding Professional Staff Award

    February 26, 2016

    Congratulations to Andrea Falcone, the department's Administrative Assistant, for receiving the 2016 College of Engineering's Outstanding Professional Staff Award.

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  • ECE Department is offering a new graduate course for Spring term

    February 19, 2016

    The course, ECET 680 Optical Communications, will by taught by P. Mohana Shankar, Ph.D., an Allen Rothwarf Professor in the ECE Department.

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    Tucker Selected for 2016 TMS Young Leaders Professional Development Award

    February 18, 2016

    Assistant Professor Garritt Tucker is a recipient of the 2016 TMS MPMS Young Leaders Professional Development Award of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division.

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    How to Build a Flexing Robotic Dinosaur Limb In Seven ‘Easy’ Steps

    February 16, 2016

    With their discovery of Dreadnoughtus schrani in 2014, a team of Drexel University researchers unearthed not only the most complete skeleton of a new species of supermassive dinosaur, but also a trove of research opportunities. One of the first of these endeavors to take shape at Drexel is an effort to better understand how the dinosaur might have moved.

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    Drexel University among Top Engineering Universities Awarded IEEE Scholarships

    February 15, 2016

    According to a recent report by the IEEE Foundation, Drexel University had the second largest number of IEEE Power & Energy Society scholars in 2015 at seven scholarships, after the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who claimed eight. Last year Drexel’s College of Engineering tied with Washington State and prior to that, the College of Engineering consistently had the largest number of scholars.

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  • Anthony Abel & Anjli Patel Receive 2016 Delaware Valley Engineers Week Undergraduate Student Paper Awards

    February 14, 2016

    Anthony Abel and Anjli Patel, CBE Undergraduates working in Dr. Baxter's lab, have been selected to receive one of the 2016 Delaware Valley Engineers Week Undergraduate Student Paper Awards. The paper award amount is $400.

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  • Professor Timothy Kurzweg appointed as 2016 IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu President-Elect

    February 12, 2016

    Timothy Kurzweg, Ph.D., ECE Associate Professor, ​will be the president of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of IEEE, in 2017.

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  • At the MoMA #1

    Joan Facey, ’58, Donates Gershon Benjamin Paintings to Drexel

    February 12, 2016

    College of Engineering alumna, Joan Facey, ’58, has generously donated three Gershon Benjamin paintings to Drexel University. Facey is currently the president and chair of The Gershon Benjamin Foundation and executor of the Benjamin estate and art collection.

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    Gogotsi and Colleagues Reveal Carbon Films Can Give Microchips Energy Storage Capability

    February 11, 2016

    Researchers from Gogotsi’s Nanomaterials Group and Paul Sabatier University in France have reported a method for embedding a supercapacitor energy storage device in the silicon wafer of a microchip.

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  • Research Reveals Carbon Films Can Give Microchips Energy Storage Capability

    February 11, 2016

    After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers led by Drexel University’s Yury Gogotsi, PhD, and Patrice Simon, PhD, of Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, have confirmed that their process for making carbon films and micro-supercapacitors will allow microchips and their power sources to become one and the same.

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  • PeaceTech Summit 2016

    Dean Hughes Attends PeaceTech Summit 2016

    February 10, 2016

    Dean Joseph Hughes along with College of Engineering students and staff attended the PeaceTech Summit 2016 in Washington, D.C. The agenda of the Summit focused on exploring the new breed of social entrepreneurship that is harnessing the power of technology, media and data in violent conflict zones.

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  • CBE Twins Attribute Academic Acumen and Personal Motivation to Strong Parental Influence

    February 09, 2016

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    CBE Twins Attribute Academic Acumen and Personal Motivation to Strong Parental Influence

    February 08, 2016

    Yuriy and Sergey Smolin are both grateful to their parents for making them the industrious and motivated individuals they are today. When the twins were 5-years-old, the Smolin family fled Russia and came to America in search of a better life. Their father, a doctor, and their mother, a railroad engineer, left their professional positions and were forced to initially live on welfare until they could find work to support their four children.

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  • Philip L. Rinaldi

    Philip L. Rinaldi Named 2016 CoE Engineering Leader of the Year

    February 08, 2016

    Drexel University’s College of Engineering is proud to announce the 2016 Engineering Leader of the Year, Philip L. Rinaldi, founding partner, Chairman and CEO of Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES).

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  • ECE undergraduate program gains approval for NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program

    February 04, 2016

    Eli Fromm, Ph.D., long-serving ECE Professor, led the effort to become an approved program.

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  • Crystalsome

    The Future of Medicine Could Be Found In This Tiny Crystal Ball

    February 04, 2016

    A Drexel University materials scientist has discovered a way to grow a crystal ball in a lab. Not the kind that soothsayers use to predict the future, but a microscopic version that could be used to encapsulate medication in a way that would allow it to deliver its curative payload more effectively inside the body.

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    The Future of Medicine Could Be Found In This Tiny Crystal Ball

    February 03, 2016

    Professor Christopher Li has discovered a method for growing crystals in a sphere shape, a development that could be used as a platform for drug delivery.

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  • The Future of Medicine Could Be Found In This Tiny Crystal Ball

    February 03, 2016

    A Drexel University materials scientist has discovered a way to grow a crystal ball in a lab. Not the kind that soothsayers use to predict the future, but a microscopic version that could be used to encapsulate medication in a way that would allow it to deliver its curative payload more effectively inside the body.

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  • Professor Bahram Nabet appointed to the University Advisory Committee on Curricular Innovation, Resources and Flexibility

    February 01, 2016

    Bahram Nabet, Ph.D., ECE Associate Professor, received an appointment on newly launched committee.

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  • Professor Timothy Kurzweg appointed as a Provost's Fellow

    February 01, 2016

    Timothy Kurzweg, Ph.D., ECE Associate Professor, received an appointment in the 2016 Cohort of Provost's Fellows.

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