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DEAN'S MESSAGE
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As we prepare to embrace another academic year, we review our college's current standing and how we arrived here. CoE is a different place than it was a decade ago. The most recent issue of FISKE Guide to Colleges 2011 identified Drexel as a "Best Buy," singling out CoE; "Drexel's greatest strength is its engineering college, which churns out more than 1% of all the nation's engineering graduates, B.S. through Ph.D." The interest in our college stems largely from our leadership in offering the most innovative programs created by some of the finest minds in the country. Our new strategic plan, developed in collaboration with all constituents, will further excel our college's accomplishments and conquer many of the challenges we are facing, sealing our place among the top engineering programs in the world. With the largest incoming class, the highest level of research funding and strongest recognition of our faculty and student excellence, our college is now enjoying its historically highest state! Many people have contributed to our college's outstanding accomplishments, and I thank every stakeholder- alumni, faculty, students, parents, staff and friends of the college - for having been an integral part of our college's story.
Selcuk Guceri
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DID YOU KNOW?
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The Fiske Guide to Colleges, the #1 best selling college guide, ranked Drexel University as a "Best Buy."
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Dr. Youngmoo Kim & Team to Advance Humanoids Research
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Drs. Youngmoo Kim (PI, ECE), Yury Gogotsi (co-PI, MSE), William Regli (co-PI, CS) and collaborators Dennis Hong (co-PI, Virginia Tech) and Stefan Schaal (co-PI, USC), have been awarded a $6 Million Major Research Infrastructure-Recovery & Reinvestment grant from the NSF for their proposal "Development of a Common Platform for Unifying Humanoids Research." The team will develop the world's first homogenous adult-sized humanoid robot team, enabling researchers across the country to work with a common instrument to compare, benchmark and validate methods and results. The goal of this project is to vertically advance the US to the forefront of humanoids research. Drexel is the lead institution for this five-year effort. Read more.
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Drexel Student Launches Science Payload from NASA's Terrier-Orion
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Kenneth Mallory '10 (MEM), who is staying at Drexel to pursue his PhD in mechanical engineering under the direction of his advisor Dr. Jin Kang, launched a science payload into space onboard the NASA Terrier-Orion sounding rocket on June 24, 2010. The launch took place at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of the "Rock-On!" workshop through the NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium. Ten schools across the nation were invited for this program. The mission of this flight was to measure space radiation. Read more.
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Drs. Yury Gogotsi and Michel Barsoum to Improve Battery Life
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Drs. Yury Gogotsi (PI, MSE) and Michel Barsoum (co-PI, MSE) have been awarded a $1 million grant from the BATT Program from the US Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, for their four-year project "New Layered Nanolaminates for use in Lithium Battery Anodes." Their research will focus on the development of laminate MAX-phase based anode materials that combine the laminate structure of graphite with silicon, tin and other elements that can provide a higher Li uptake per atom and lead to an improved capacity, lesser expansion, longer cycle life and a lower cost compared to current Li-ion battery anodes.
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Engineers Monitor Energy-Saving Roof Project in West Philadelphia
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Drs. Franco Montalto (CAEE) and Mira Olson (CAEE) will lead a team of undergraduate and graduate students in monitoring green, control and cool roofing systems in West Philadelphia to collect data for eco-friendly roofing. The roofing systems will create affordable and energy-saving roofs for residents. Equipment funded by the Community Development Corporation, will be used to capture data that measures runoff from the roofs, temperature and the effectiveness of the roofing's sustainability in an urban environment with rain gauges and thermisters. The emerging green technology will be implemented at North Holly Street and Powelton Avenue in Philadelphia; three roofs have been installed on different homes. The data will be collected starting in August. Read more.
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Dr. Ko Nishino Receives NSF Award for Recognition of Materials Project
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Dr. Ko Nishino (CS) and collaborators Dr. Srinivasa Narasimhan of Carnegie Mellon University and Dr. Shree Nayar of Columbia University, received a NSF CISE IIS RI Medium award for their project, "Recognition of Materials." The research will lead to a comprehensive set of computational tools to recognize materials in real-world images despite their complex appearance variations, such as recognizing rusted metals, discerning soft cloth from hard concrete, identifying different fat content of milks and labeling image regions. The total budget of this four-year project is more than $1 million.
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