March 11, 2015
By investigating uncomfortable temperatures in Maxwell Hall, four engineering students have helped reduce the building’s overall energy usage, pollution, and cost of heating. Their efforts have provided Maxwell’s occupants with a cozier learning environment and have created an estimated savings ...
Read More about Students’ Award-Winning Project Reduces Energy Consumption and Pollution on CampusMarch 10, 2015
Alexis Peña, a junior in the bioengineering program, has received two outstanding research awards for her poster presentations at two notable conferences. At the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in November, Peña was earned a research ...
Read More about Bioengineering Major Earns National Recognition for ResearchFebruary 23, 2015
Information Technology and Services (ITS) officially launched the SU MakerSpace at the opening of the Fall 2014 semester. Members of the University community increasingly gather there to learn and create using do-it-yourself approaches to creating with technology. MakerSpace ...
Read More about MakerSpace Is Making a DifferenceFebruary 9, 2015
This year’s National Engineers Week is February 22-28 and SU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science is encouraging students and alumni to show the world the great work that engineers do all month long. Here’s how ...
Read More about Celebrate #EweekSU by Showing Us What Engineers DoFebruary 5, 2015
Renewable, bio-based products may offer many benefits ranging from decreased greenhouse gas emissions to improved domestic energy security. However, despite growing interest in replacing fossil resources with renewable alternatives, biomass refining industries, particularly those producing biofuels, have struggled to compete ...
Read More about A Niche for BiomassFebruary 3, 2015
For every human cell in our bodies there are 10 bacteria cells. When bacteria —good or bad— stick together, they form a slimy layer called a biofilm that adheres to surfaces inside or outside of the body. ...
Read More about The Science of Slime — Why We Care Where Biofilms StickFebruary 2, 2015
Mary Ann Hopkins ’87, G ‘89, has been inducted into the 2015 Wash100, a premier group of influential leaders in government contracting. Hopkins and her fellow inductees are recognized for their push to drive innovation and ...
Read More about DLC’s Mary Ann Hopkins Selected to Wash100February 2, 2015
As technology advances to meet our ever-growing needs, the size of our electronics is decreasing while their performance is increasing. Computer chips are a good example of this. We want them to be small, yet capable of faster processing speeds. ...
Read More about Taking the Heat — Using Nanotechnology to Cool Tomorrow’s TechJanuary 30, 2015
It is a pleasure to announce the return of the College of Engineering and Computer Science Invention and Creativity Competition, a contest to encourage engineering students to apply their training and skills to create novel, commercializable product ideas. The ...
Read More about Announcing 2015 Invention and Creativity CompetitionJanuary 28, 2015
The 2014 report from the Alzheimer’s Association shows that there are more than five million people living with Alzheimer’s in America, which is expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars in care-giving this year. But treatment of diseases like Alzheimer’s ...
Read More about Breaking Barriers to Treat Alzheimer’s