CoE celebrated National Engineers Week with a series of events February 21-25. The week kicked off with the Egg Drop Competition, which challenged students to create a contraption made of recyclable materials that would protect an egg from the impact of a 31-foot drop down a steel cable and into a barricade. Additional events throughout the week included the Career Fair that was co-hosted with the Steinbright Career Development Center (SCDC), Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, Alumni Connections and a Drexel Men's Basketball game with the CoEAA. To culminate the week, students, faculty, professional staff, alumni and industry leaders honored 2011 Engineering Leader of the Year, Norman R. Augustine, at the Engineering Leader of the Year Dinner and Awards Ceremony made possible by sponsors. Read more.  

A senior design team of 11 students led by Drs. Adam Fontecchio (ECE) and Bradley Layton (MEM) will compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon competition for the first time in Houston, Texas, April 14-17. Students are challenged with designing and building a car that can travel the longest distance using the least amount of energy. The team will compete in the Solar Car Category, one of the more challenging categories due to the complexity of building a solar car and the unpredictability of the weather during the competition. Drexel's team will be competing for a grand prize of $50,000. Read More. 

Dr. Jin Kang to Lead Launch of Drexel's First Satellite: DragonSat-1

Dr. Jin Kang (MEM) and more than 40 senior design students will be launching Drexel's first satellite to the International Space Station. DragonSat-1 is a student-built 1kg satellite, the size of a half of a loaf of bread (10cm cubed) that took two-years to build. Selected by NASA to be launched in 2012 into the International Space Station orbit, it will send pictures of the Earth and environmental data to the ground station setup in Drexel University's Amateur Radio Club, on the top floor of Drexel's Main building. 

Dr. Masoud Soroush (CBE) has been awarded an NSF three-year grant for his project, "Collaborative Research: GOALI: Synergistic Improvement of Process Safety and Product Quality Using Process Databases." The goal of the research is to introduce and study new methods for dynamic risk assessment of processing plants and to test the new methods on several industrial plants in collaboration with Air Liquide Research and Development. Product-quality data will be utilized to identify near-misses and prevent accidents more effectively. Collaborators include Warren Seider (UPenn), Ulku Oktem (UPenn), Jeffrey Arbogast (Air Liquide) and Olivier Cadet (Air Liquide). The amount of the grant is $201,026. Read More.

CoE Names Alumni Circle of Distinction Recipients

CoE is pleased to announce the 2011 Alumni Circle of Distinction recipients. These alumni have been selected by the College and the University to receive the honorary Circle of Distinction Award for their outstanding accomplishments. The recipients include Margaret C. Burns '79 (ECE), Louis J. Cabano '56 (CBE), William H. Dresher '53 (CBE) and Mahmoud A. El-Sherif '87 (ECE). The recipients were recognized for their achievements during the Engineering Leader of the Year Dinner and Awards Ceremony. Read More.