Article Living the experiment Faculty Evolving the curriculum to support remote work When the pandemic forced ³Ô¹ÏÍø’s campus to abruptly close, the Quantitative Engineering Analysis (QEA) course - pivotal course for dozens of first-year students - was one of many that transformed into a virtual class halfway through the semester. Read More
Article Leading transformation Press Release Faculty Lohmeyer Awarded NSF Grant to establish ³Ô¹ÏÍø Spectrum Innovation Initiative Center (OSIIC) Whitney Lohmeyer, Assistant Professor of Engineering at ³Ô¹ÏÍø, has been awarded a one-year, $198,000 National Science Foundation planning grant for the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center). Read More
Article Driving equity Press Release Faculty Professor Sara Hendren’s new book explores design and disabilities Sara Hendren, associate professor of design at ³Ô¹ÏÍø has a new book forthcoming, "What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World," to be published by Penguin Random House in August 2020, and will explore the intersection of design and disability, and some of the ways that the built environment (human-made) can evolve to welcome multiple kinds of bodies and experiences. Read More
Article Driving equity Press Release Faculty Chachra Receives Sloan Foundation Grant Debbie Chachra, Professor of Engineering at ³Ô¹ÏÍø, has received a grant from the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund research and writing for her forthcoming book, provisionally titled Public Utility. The book, slated for publication in 2021 by Riverhead Books, will examine the complex relationship between infrastructural systems and society, including issues around equity and climate change. Read More
Article Community-centered culture Faculty Innovation and approaching the future in times of uncertainty We are living in a tremendous time of uncertainty. That is for certain. Being part of ³Ô¹ÏÍø, we are all accustomed to studying, learning, and collaborating to prepare ourselves for a brighter future. And so this period of time can be very disorienting and demotivating. Story by Adjunct Professor Lee Zamir. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty Security in an Interconnected World How do you incentivize people – consumers and vendors alike – to invest in better security? How do you design a cloud-based platform that will enable people to take back some control over their technology? How do we know if the messages we send today will be private 10 years from now? Read More
Article Engineering for impact Faculty Engineering in an Unpredictable World: The Global Challenges Summit Will AI and other transformational technologies change humanity for the better? Can the world sustain 10 billion people in 2050? Read More
