The Industrial Assessment Center at Arizona State University, known as IAC@ASU, conducted its 500th assessment at a wastewater treatment plant in the Phoenix metro area in December. IAC@ASU currently ranks sixth among the 33 Industrial Assessment Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Its mission is to identify technology, systems and productivity opportunities that result in increasing energy…
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AIChE honors Jerry Lin’s lifetime of work
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers, or AIChE, organizes special sessions during its annual national meeting to honor chemical engineers for significant contributions to the field. In 2020, Arizona State University Regents Professor Jerry Lin was honored for his lifetime dedication and career contributions to the fundamentals and application of membrane technology. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AIChE…
Note from Kyle: Announcing Sridhar Seetharaman as new vice dean for research and innovation
It is my great pleasure to announce Sridhar Seetharaman as the vice dean for research and innovation in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. We are pleased to welcome Sridhar to the Fulton Schools as we embark on a new year with renewed focus on accelerating opportunities for our research community, and look forward…
Remembering Leonard “Aryeh” Faltz
Emeritus Professor Leonard “Aryeh” Faltz passed away on December 8, 2020. He taught at Arizona State University from 1979 until his retirement in 2005, first in the English Department and then in the Department of Computer Science/Engineering. Faltz’s research included topics related to speech recognition with multiple redundancy resolution. His publications consist of Reflexivization: A…
New Materialz Seminar Series announced
The Fulton Schools are excited to announce a new remote lecture series in the broad field of materials science and engineering jointly organized by ASU and the University of Arizona. This seminar series, which will feature talks from eminent experts, will promote student engagement in materials science and engineering through interactive sessions, increase the nation-wide…
New ASU researcher supporting minority group success in engineering doctoral programs
According to the National Academies, only one in seven doctorates in engineering are obtained by underrepresented groups including African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. Research shows that several factors contribute to this disparity, but there haven’t been adequate resources available to support systemic change within academic institutions. Now, a new National Science Foundation grant will help uncover how…
Human systems engineering lab advances online learning research
Identifying best practices for effective online learning has become especially significant in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But even before the coronavirus outbreak, the Arizona State University Advanced Distributed Learning, or ADL, Partnership Lab was busy evaluating methods to improve the functionality and effectiveness of learning in an unconventional setting. The ASU ADL Partnership Lab, established in…
Soil liquefaction prevention technique turns in promising performance
TEAM FROM FULTON SCHOOLS GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER TESTING THE METHOD IN EARTHQUAKE-PRONE PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION Catastrophic damage to infrastructure and natural resource areas has been caused around the world by soil liquefaction. It’s what happens when water pressure increases in soils that have little or no cohesive strength — often as a result of…
Kory Hedman named director of the Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Kory Hedman, associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, has been named the new director of the Power Systems Engineering Research Center, or PSERC. Hedman will replace ASU Regents Professor Vijay Vittal, who has held the position for the last 15 years.
ASU spinout Enkoat earns NSF Small Business Innovation Research Award
EnKoat, an advanced materials venture founded by ASU alumni Aashay Arora and Matthew Aguayo, recently won a $225,000 National Science Foundation Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award, a highly selective seed funding program known as SBIR.
Digital Education News: Looking to the fall — ASU Sync
Recent world events have greatly altered how we view teaching and learning. This fall, many of our immersion (on-campus) students will have access to the following three learning environments:
Colbourn’s lifetime of design theory work lands Stanton Medal
Charles Colbourn is the recipient of the 2019 Stanton Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, or ICA, for his lifetime contributions to the discipline of combinatorics. The medal recognizes Colbourn’s efforts in support of combinatorial design theory through advocacy, outreach, service and teaching.
Brent Nannenga awarded Burton Medal
Brent Nannenga, an assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, has been awarded the Burton Medal Biological by the Microscopy Society of America for his work on the development of microcrystal electron diffraction also known as MicroED. “This award means a lot to me because the recognition helps to show…
Feng Ju named SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer
Feng Ju, an assistant professor of industrial engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, was recently named an Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer by SME (formerly called the Society of Manufacturing Engineers).
Rivera named IEEE CSS Distinguished Member
Daniel Rivera, a professor of chemical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, was recently designated as an IEEE CSS Distinguished Member. He received the award on December 12 during the 2019 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Nice, France. The award recognized Rivera’s outstanding long-term service to the Control…