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Drexel Engineering students and faculty continue to aspire to be unparalleled both nationally and internationally, proving their dedication to Drexel's mission of success throughout the year. We are pleased to announce that Drexel Engineering graduates have won the world championship in the Microsoft Imagine Cup design competition edging out teams from Brazil, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Lithuania and Romania, before advancing only to later claim the title over teams from France and Hungary in the final round. We also recognize the global accomplishments of our faculty, as a team of professors from Drexel Engineering and Drexel's School of Public Health pair with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to advance on problems from microbial contamination research. Drexel Engineering not only solves problems locally, but they have a reach that is felt around the world from Europe to Asia to Africa, fulfilling our responsibility to help solve the problems of the future.
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DID YOU KNOW?
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The Philadelphia Geek Awards honors "geeks" in the greater Philadelphia region. Dr. Youngmoo Kim, associate professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and assistant dean of Engineering for media technologies, has been nominated for Geekadelphia's Scientist of the Year award. Read more.
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Students Win World Championship at Microsoft Competition
 Drexel Engineering Computer Science graduates Matt Lesnak, Keith Ayers and N. Taylor Mullen claimed a world championship in the Microsoft Imagine Cup technology design competition under the direction of advisor Dr. Frank Lee, associate teaching professor and co-director of Drexel's game design program, after their "Math Dash" game rose to the top from a field of 106 teams from 75 countries. The group, dubbed team "Drexel Dragons," won the game design mobile category with a smartphone app that turns learning math concepts into a fun game. More than 300,000 students from around the world participated in the competition this year. Read more.
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Dr. Kapil Dandekar Wins IEEE Award for Service
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 Dr. Kapil Dandekar, associate professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering and associate dean of research for Drexel's College of Engineering, has been awarded the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Meritorious Service Citation. Dandekar will be presented with the award at a ceremony on November 9, 2012 in New Brunswick, NJ during the week of IEEE's meeting series that will include a private reception and dinner. This honor recognizes IEEE members who are past members of the EAB or current or past members of EAB Committees for outstanding and sustained service to the aims and objectives of the EAB. Dandekar has been acknowledged for his work in "spearheading the incorporation of the Engineering Projects in Community Service program in IEEE's educational activities and expanding the program to Africa and South America." Read more.
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Drexel Engineers Develop Technology for Energy Storage
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Dr. Yury Gogotsi, director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute and Dr. E.C. Kumbur, director of Drexel's Electrochemical Energy Systems Laboratory, have taken up the challenge of developing a new method for quickly and efficiently storing large amounts of electrical energy. Electrical energy storage is the obstacle preventing more widespread use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. Drexel's team of researchers is putting forward a plan to integrate into the grid an electrochemical storage system that combines principles behind the flow batteries and supercapacitors that power our daily technology. This concept for energy storage was recently published in a special issue of Advanced Energy Materials focused on next-generation batteries. Read more.
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Students Engineer Sustainable Solutions at Walnut Hill Farm
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 Drexel Engineering and Biomedical Engineering freshman design teams are working to improve Walnut Hill Farm, a sustainable urban farm in Philadelphia's Walnut Hill neighborhood. The teams were challenged with solving three issues: create an efficient irrigation system; design a greenhouse to allow year-round cultivation of crops and engineer a plowing system to accommodate the farm's raised planting beds. Over the course of ten weeks each team developed solutions to the farm's problems. Teams were advised by Dr. Alex Moseson, assistant teaching professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and teaching assistants. Read more.
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Obama-Singh Grant Links Drexel and I.I.T Delhi in Research
An educational initiative, jointly funded by India and the US, has paired Drexel University with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to create a resource for assessing the human health risks of microbial contamination. The three-year project, which is one of eight Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative grants, will draw on I.I.T Delhi's expertise in microbial contaminants in air, water and toxicology, with Drexel's background in microbial risk assessment and human health. The Drexel team consists of co-director Dr. Patrick Gurian, senior co-director Dr. Charles Haas and Dr. Mira Olson of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Shannon Marquez, Dr. Arthur Frank and Dr. Hernando Perez from Drexel's School of Public Health are also part of the team, as well as Dr. Joan Rose from Michigan State University. The partners will collaborate on a course curriculum development-based project entitled Resource Building for Ecosystem and Human Health Risk Assessment with Special References to Microbial Contamination. Read more.
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