Smart Insulin Delivery Mon, June 01, 2020 UCLA's Zhen Gu (USFOE 2016) is engineering an insulin-delivery patch that could one day monitor and manage glucose levels in diabetics and deliver insulin. Read More
The Grainger Foundation Provides $3 Million Gift for NAE Frontiers of Engineering Program Thu, May 28, 2020 The National Academy of Engineering announced today a $3 million gift from the Grainger Foundation to support NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering symposia. The symposia honor excellence in engineering by recognizing the work of outstanding early-career engineers and facilitating interdisciplinary ... Read More
Monitoring Coronavirus Patients from a Distance Thu, May 28, 2020 NAE member Dina Katabi (USFOE 2014) at MIT is engineering a device that could lower the risk of caregivers becoming infected while treating patients with the coronavirus. Read More
Growing Strained Crystals To Improve Electronics Performance Thu, May 21, 2020 Sheng Xu (USFOE 2019) at the University of California, San Diego is engineering a new method to fabricate more efficient and longer lasting perovskite solar cells, LEDs, and photodetectors. Read More
Wear a Mask! Thu, May 14, 2020 FOE alum John Zhai, a buildings systems engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the importance of wearing masks with a proper fit to protect against COVID. Read More
Reading Vital Signs Remotely Thu, May 14, 2020 Canan Dagdeviren (USFOE 2019) at MIT Media Lab Clothing is engineering fabric embedded with electronic sensors to monitor respiration and heart rate, which could enable doctors to monitor patients who remain at home or astronauts’ health while they are in space. Read More
Call for Engineering Response to the COVID-19 Crisis Mon, May 11, 2020 We invite you to collectively brainstorm on potentially innovative engineering ideas and systems approaches to combat the contagion and its impact. Read More
Multi-Application 3D Printed Corals Mon, May 11, 2020 Shaochen Chen (CAFOE 2015) at the University of California San Diego is engineering 3D-printed coral-inspired structures that could improve biofuel production, as well as techniques to repair and restore coral reefs. Read More
Misinformation Pandemic Thu, May 07, 2020 Kate Starbird (USFOE 2013) at the University of Washington is examining how misinformation is spreading during the pandemic and how scientific expertise factors into public perceptions. Read More
No Quick Fix for Pandemic Mon, May 04, 2020 Northeastern University's Alessandro Vespignani (USFOE 2005) notes the need to build a system that controls the spread of the virus beyond social distancing measures. Read More
Better COVID Testing Thu, April 30, 2020 FOE alum Renee Wegrzyn at DARPA is engineering testing solutions that are more sensitive, less expensive, require smaller patient samples, and could be developed by late summer. Read More
Engineering More Virus Testing Mon, April 27, 2020 FOE alum Catherine Klapperich at Boston University points out that the ‘gold-standard testing platform’ for viruses requires a very clean lab, adding to the turnaround time for results. Read More
Making a Ventilator from Devices on Hand Thu, April 23, 2020 Georgia Tech's Devesh Ranjan (USFOE 2016) is engineering an innovative ventilator prototype that adapts bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitators already in place in hospitals and ambulances and could save lives as COVID-19 hits developing countries in Asia and Africa. Read More
3D-Printing A Ventilator Splitter Fri, April 17, 2020 FOE alum Sung Hoon Kang at Johns Hopkins University is engineering a 3D-printed splitter that will allow a single ventilator to treat multiple critically ill COVID-19 patients. Read More
Donate Sleep Apnea Machines To Be Ventilators Thu, April 16, 2020 Grace O’Connell (USFOE 2015) at the University of California, Berkeley is engineering a way to convert sleep apnea machines to be used as a viable solution for non-ICU patients, reserving higher-grade ventilators for patients with more advanced stages of respiratory disease. Read More
Emergency Ventilator for COVID-19 Patients Mon, April 13, 2020 FOE alum William King at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has engineered a prototype emergency ventilator with performance equivalent to commercial devices. Read More
Using Ovens to Decontaminate Face Masks Thu, April 09, 2020 Stanford University's Yi Cui (CAFOE 2017) may have found a way to use heat to disinfect N95 respirators, potentially enabling reuse of the single-use masks that are running dangerously low nationwide as the number of COVID-19 cases in the US continues to grow. Read More
Decontaminating Face Masks for Re-Use During COVID-19 Crisis Mon, April 06, 2020 FOE alum Kevin Fu at the University of Michigan has co-organized a website that synthesizes current scientific literature about mask decontamination. Read More
Robots That Can Sweat to Lower Temperature Thu, April 02, 2020 FOE alum Robert Shepherd at Cornell University has engineered the first soft robotic muscle that can internally cool robot components (hands) using liquids, as opposed to bulky fans with motors. Read More
Engineering for COVID-19 Mon, March 30, 2020 FOE alumni Sam Graham and Devesh Ranjan at Georgia Tech are engineering medical device and protective gear solutions to address the COVID-19 crisis. Read More