Events and opportunities open to the entire Arizona State University community.
The INSPIRE (INstructional Strategies for Partnership, Innovation, Resources and Engagement) Awards align with our Fulton Schools value of Foster a Community of Learning and Collaboration and recognizes faculty members who embrace this value through curricular and co-curricular activities that promote student learning, professional development and/or professional practice. This year’s INSPIRE theme of AI-Enhanced Teaching and…
Professor Deirdre Meldrum is retiring from Arizona State University to pursue new professional opportunities in cancer prevention technologies and therapeutics. Upon her retirement, Professor Meldrum will hold the title of Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus and Dean of Engineering Emeritus.
Calling all Fulton Schools staff and faculty members! Welcome our incoming first-year Fulton students at E2! Join us for a 50-minute ASU 101 session where you’ll connect with new students, introduce them to the Fulton Schools and help them start their engineering journey strong. No prep needed, all materials will be provided. Come for one…
Please join us in celebrating the spring 2026 graduates of Arizona State University’s Emerging Supervisor Pathway program. These 12 staff members have joined a list of more than 90 from the Fulton Schools who have completed the program over the past two years. The Emerging Supervisor Pathway program is a self-paced, semester-long training course…
The Mosaic Award honors a Fulton Schools faculty member who exemplifies the Fulton Schools value of building a foundation for all to be successful in their daily practices related to teaching, research, service and outreach. This year, the Fulton Schools Inclusive Excellence Faculty Advisory Council, or IFAC, received 23 unique nominations for 20 Fulton Schools…
About Karen Lozano is a trustee professor and chair of the materials science and nanoengineering department at Rice University. From 2000 to 2025, she served as the Julia Beecherl Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she founded the Nanotechnology Center and launched the college’s first doctoral degree…
Join us at the spring 2026 Innovation Showcase to see how students in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering are putting their knowledge to work and collaborating with industry to engineer transformative solutions to real-world challenges.
About Ryan Spencer is an associate research and development staff member in the Composite Innovation Group at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a Fellow with the University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge Innovation Institute, contributing to the Circular Bioeconomy Systems Convergent Research Initiative. Spencer earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees…
About: Juba Ziani is an assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. A NSF CAREER Award recipient, Ziani’s research lies at the intersection of computer science, operations research and economics. He uses tools from learning theory, game theory and optimization to address technical and societal challenges arising from AI,…
About Robert Gao is the Cady Staley Professor and chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Since earning his doctoral degree from the Technical University of Berlin in 1991, he has conducted research in physics-based signal transduction mechanisms, multiresolution signal processing, stochastic modeling, and artificial intelligence and machine…
About Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with ASU Regents Professor Ying-Cheng Lai, from the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Lai is a senior engineering faculty member with over 30 years of experience working in nonlinear and complex dynamical systems….
The Fulton Forge Student Research Expo showcases student research projects that are solving real-world challenges in data science, education, energy, health, security, semiconductor manufacturing and sustainability. Come learn about the research findings from more than 100 students participating in the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative and the Grand Challenges Scholars Program research stipend opportunity at the spring 2026 Fulton Forge…
The International Student and Scholar Center, or ISSC, Open House session in April will focus on common end-of-term scenarios and their potential immigration implications for international students.
Are you curious to see what graduating students created for their capstone projects while being mentored by industry professionals from Phoenix-area firms? Then, come to the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, or SSEBE, spring 2026 Capstone Project Showcase, a free event that is open to the public. Free food and refreshments will be available…
About: Ali Tajer is a professor of electrical, computer and systems engineering and the associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI. His research interests include mathematical statistics, machine learning and information theory. He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and…