EVENTS
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Engineers Week
February 16-20, 2009
Join CoE in recognizing the contributions of our engineers during our week-long celebration.
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DEAN'S MESSAGE
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The start of the holiday season and the end of fall term is a time to enjoy the success of CoE and anticipate the promise to come. CoE has much to celebrate. Our novel thinking has led us to excel in our initiatives despite increasingly worsening economic conditions. In addition, we have remained committed to transforming the future by preparing our students to be leaders and innovators. We are also excited to announce our 2009 Engineer of the Year, Chris Ferguson. He is an exemplar of the power of engineering to transform lives. As we continue to the end of term, we wish the best of luck to our students and a happy and healthy start of the holiday season.
-Dr. Selçuk Güçeri
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DID YOU KNOW?
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CoE welcomed the largest class of freshmen engineering students in Drexel's history-716 students representing 26 U.S. states.
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Christopher
Ferguson Named 2009 Engineer of Year
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CoE is proud to announce Christopher Ferguson, a Drexel University alumnus '84 (MEM) and commander of space shuttle Endeavour STS-126, has been named Drexel University's 2009 Engineer of the Year. Mr. Ferguson will touch down from his 15-day mission to the International Space Station on November 30. During the space mission, Mr. Ferguson worked with his seven-person crew to install a system that recycles urine into drinking water and also worked to prepare the space station for long-duration missions. As Drexel's Engineer of the Year, Mr. Ferguson will be honored in a ceremony that culminates a week-long series of events promoting public awareness and celebrating the contributions of engineers. For more information on Mr. Ferguson's mission, please click here.
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Squid Suckers: Eye-Catching Image
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PhD student Jessica Schiffman '09 (MSE) received honorable mention in the photography category for the 6th Annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge for her image "Squid Suckers: The Little Monsters That Feed the Beast." The squid-like image is an electron micrograph compiled while researching chitin properties in the lab of Dr.Caroline Schauer (MSE). The image shows the fang-like structures, 400 micrometers in diameter, that a squid uses to latch onto its prey. Winning entries first appeared on the NSF web site, the Science web site and the September 2008 print issue of Science. The image also received national coverage on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Ars Technica, AAAS, and MSNBC websites. For more information, please click here.
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Alumni Trip to Turkey
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The Drexel University Alumni Association and CoE invite alumni to join Dean Selçuk Güçeri and fellow graduates for a journey to Turkey from June 17-July 2, 2009. The alumni travel program combines educational forums and excursions to places of historical and cultural interest, with the opportunity to enjoy unplanned experiences and meet local people. For more information, please click here.
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Dr. Raj Mutharasan Developing Device to Detect Toxins in Water
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Dr. Raj Mutharasan (CBE) received funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to wrap up five years of research in a new device that rapidly detects a harmful class of toxins in drinking water.The EPA announced the $599,999 grant for his research, titled "Near-Real Time, Highly Sensitive and Selective Field Deployable Biosensor for Cyanotoxins and Cyanobacteria Using both Antibodies and DNA-signatures" at a campus press conference. For more information, please click here.
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Dr. Jeremy Johnson Awarded Outstanding Online Instructor
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Dr. Jeremy Johnson (CS) was acknowledged as an outstanding online instructor during National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) November 10-14, 2008. One of nine recipients who received awards for Outstanding Online Instructor, Dr. Johnson was honored for his significant contribution to distance learning. The awards ceremony was sponsored by Drexel University Online, and Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell provided the keynote address. For more information on NDLW, please click here.
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