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April 24, 2017
A collaboration between Drexel University engineers and a professional dance company in Philadelphia is taking the first steps to develop an accessible method for formally measuring movement in dance. Their hope is the scientific data gleaned from it could one day support the teaching and appreciation of this form of artistic expression.
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April 17, 2017
Alumnus Davide Mattia (PhD 2008) has been promoted to Full Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath, UK.
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April 17, 2017
Danish Dhamani and Paritosh Gupta wanted to help people uncomfortable with public speaking, so they created Orai, an app that acts as a personal speech coach. Orai is a finalist this week in two notable competitions.
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April 14, 2017
Drexel Materials Associate Professor Caroline Schauer and Hoeganaes Associate Professor Mitra Taheri have been selected to take part in the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE at Drexel®) leadership development program 2017-18 fellowship year.
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April 14, 2017
College of Engineering Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics student Danish Dhamani and College of Computing and Informatics Computer Science student Paritosh Gupta have been announced as one of only four finalist teams in the 2017 Conscious Capitalism Student Business Plan Competition for their business, Orai.
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April 11, 2017
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Professor Grace Hsuan, PhD has been selected by the ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials International) D35 Committee on Geosynthetics as the 2017 Recipient of the L. David Suits Award. The L. David Suits Award is an ASTM International Society recognized award given to a distinguished individual whose extensive commitment to the geosynthetic field has made exemplary technical, practical or administrative contributions resulting in a significant leap-forward of knowledge, testing equipment or products.
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April 11, 2017
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April 11, 2017
Collaboration is nothing new for the College of Engineering’s Kapil Dandekar, Adam Fontecchio, and Timothy Kurzweg. The professors have been working together on projects for years and even hold some joint patents. What is new is where they work: a unique, customized shared lab and office space that’s much more conducive to research than the individual labs they used to have.
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April 11, 2017
Research from Drexel University and the University of Pittsburgh suggests that guidelines for safe disposal of liquid waste from patients being treated for the Ebola virus might not go far enough to protect water treatment workers from being exposed. In a study recently published in the journal Water Environment Research, a group of environmental engineering researchers reports that sewer workers downstream of hospitals and treatment centers could contract Ebola via inhalation — a risk that is not currently accounted for in the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention or World Health Organization Ebola response protocol.
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April 10, 2017
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