NAE Awards The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research Thu, June 17, 2021 Two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants of $30,000 each have been awarded to attendees of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Read More
A Rainbow Connection Fri, June 11, 2021 Mikhail Kats (USFOE 2020) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has engineered an optical technique to measure transparent, layered structures found in plants, animals, geological samples, and synthetic materials and could lead to a new understanding of climate history. Read More
Dynamic, Cost-Saving Additive Platform Thu, June 10, 2021 FOE alum Yong Chen at the University of Southern California is engineering a prototype 3D printing platform with adjustable metal pins that negate the need to print excess support structures. This could save 30% on material, with biomedical, automotive, aerospace, and maritime applications. Read More
Taking a Patient's Pulse Remotely with Camera Fri, June 04, 2021 Shwetak Patel (EU-US FOE 2014) University of Washington is engineering a way to use machine learning and the camera on an electronic device to take pulse and respiration signals from a real-time video of a patient’s face. Read More
Using AI for Sustainable Energy and Water Thu, June 03, 2021 Seth Darling (USFOE 2016) at Argonne National Laboratory is engineering an artificial intelligence-assisted system for recovery of energy, nutrients, and freshwater from municipal wastewater. Read More
Inhaled Covid-19 Vaccines in Development Thu, May 27, 2021 Bioengineer Renata Pasqualini (GAFOE 2013) at Rutgers University is developing an inhalable covid-19 vaccine that would be easier to administer and more accessible than a jab, and there’s reason to believe it could work better, too. Read More
Using Advanced Light to Reveal How Biofuels Behave Mon, May 24, 2021 The University of Central Florida's Subith Vasu (2019 EU-US FOE) has engineered a model that uses light to help engine designers, fuel chemists, and federal agencies identify cleaner burning and renewable alternatives to gasoline. Read More
Predicting Virus Evolutions Using AI Thu, May 20, 2021 Electrical and computer engineer Paul Bogdan (USFOE 2019) at USC developed an algorithm that identifies how online rumors mutate into full-blown fake news could be retrained and reclassified to detect the next mutation of viruses like COVID-19. Read More
Workplace Air Quality Standards Mon, May 17, 2021 Chemical engineer Leonard Pease (CAFOE 2017) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory joins other researchers in issuing a call to action to improve indoor air quality as a safeguard against the spread of airborne contagions like the coronavirus. Read More
Origami-inspired Medical Solutions Thu, May 13, 2021 MIT's Xuanhe Zhao (USFOE 2013) is engineering a medical patch that can be folded around minimally invasive surgical tools and delivered through airways, intestines, and other narrow spaces to patch up internal injuries. Read More
The Secret of Why Hummingbirds Hum Mon, May 10, 2021 Stanford's David Lentink (USFOE 2016) studies biological flight as an inspiration for engineering design. He recently used 3D sound mapping to show aerodynamic forces during flight that explain the hummingbird's eponymous sound. Read More
New Treatments Post-Heart Attack Thu, May 06, 2021 FOE alum W. David Merryman, a bioengineer at Vanderbilt University, has identified the protein receptor in specialized heart cells that, when removed, preserves cardiac function after a heart attack. A promising therapeutic development is now underway. Read More
Vaccination by Inhalation Mon, May 03, 2021 FOE alum Darrell Irvine at MIT is engineering a method to deliver vaccines directly to the lungs, which can boost immune responses to respiratory infections from viruses such as COVID-19, or lung cancer. Read More
Organ Engineering for Chronic Disease Thu, April 29, 2021 NAE member, FOE alum, and bioengineer Linda Griffith at MIT aims to change the conversation about endometriosis from one of women’s pain to one of biomarkers, genetics, and molecular networks. Read More
Optimizing Health Care Systems for Both Pandemics and Natural Disasters Mon, April 26, 2021 Civil engineer and FOE alum Hussam Mahmoud at Colorado State University recommends better resource allocation and mitigation strategies during natural disasters such as wildfires to achieve fewer COVID cases and deaths at the same time. Read More
A 100% Renewable Energy Road Map Thu, April 22, 2021 Energy systems engineer Paul Denholm (IAFOE 2008) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that coal-burning Los Angeles is capable of achieving 98% clean energy within the next decade and 100% by 2035 without causing blackouts or disrupting the economy. Read More
A Guide for Women in Aerospace and Aviation Mon, April 19, 2021 Purdue University's Alina Alexeenko (USFOE 2015) recently contributed to "Flight Paths to Success,” where women engineers share their in-depth, personal perspectives on the habits, motivations, triumphs, defeats, and lessons learned in their top jobs in the industry. Read More
Nobel Prize Summit: Our Planet, Our Future April 26-28 Thu, April 15, 2021 The first-ever Nobel Prize Summit, co-hosted by the National Academy of Sciences, will bring together Nobel Prize laureates, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and today’s youth leaders to explore actions that can be achieved in this decade to put the world on a path to a ... Read More
Peer-Reviewed by Reality: What Mars and Texas Tell Us About Engineering Thu, April 15, 2021 For every 33.9-million-mile distant technological high point like the Mars rover, there’s a counterpart, like the Texas grid just beneath our feet that undergirds our daily survival. Read more . Read More
Teaching a (Robot) Dog New Tricks Thu, April 15, 2021 Robert Playter (2010 EU-US FOE) at Boston Dynamics has engineered a robot dog that can grab and carry objects, open doors, and right itself, among other functionality designed for hazardous tasks in workplaces such as nuclear plants and offshore oil fields. Read More