In Full Circle
Kenya project earns ASU engineering students national award
Arizona State University’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is one of three chapters in the U.S. to win a 2014 Premier Project Award from the national EWB-USA organization. Read on Full Circle
‘The Future of Me’: Technology is transforming traditional idea of the self
Human selfhood isn’t about essence, argues ASU’s Brad Allenby in a Future Tense article for Slate magazine, it’s about information. We are an information-processing species; our personal identities are deeply rooted in what we know and how we know it. Allenby is a President’s Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Build Environment, one of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and a Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics. Read on Full Circle
Fainekos’ work on embedded cyber-physical systems earns NSF CAREER award
Georgios Fainekos, assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering and director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory at ASU, will expand his research with support from a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. He will seek to improve the software that drives embedded computing systems, enabling the software to better reveal and eliminate errors in the design, modeling and implementation of cyber-physical systems. Read on Full Circle
In the news
Miss Arizona Latina on how to get more young women in STEM careers (College Times)
First generation college student and civil engineering major, Brenda Soto is much more than just another pretty face. While she may hold the title of Miss Arizona Latina 2013, Soto says “education is paramount.” Soto moved from the Mexican state of Sinaloa to Arizona when she was just 9 years old and is currently in her final undergraduate year at ASU.
‘Big data’ advances could help solve health, energy challenges (PressZoom)
Two teams of Arizona State University computer science researchers are working to develop the next generations of data-driven predictive systems to improve our ability to respond to epidemics and more effectively manage buildings and their energy systems. Both teams are led by K. Selçuk Candan, a professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, one of the ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Read on Full Circle
