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²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ graduate student Charleson Bell, who is the president of the high tech startup BioNanovations, is participating in a 12-week accelerator program in Silicon Valley specifically designed to encourage underrepresented tech entrepeneurs. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) was awarded a $9.3 million contract to develop a collaborative software so that other non-government teams could design a new amphibious tank for the Marine Corps. Sandeep Neema, research associate professor of electrical engineering, is quoted.

For their senior design project for the School of Engineering, six ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ students created the KidSense Car Seat System. The system detects if a child has been left unattended and if the environment has become dangerously hot or cold. Co-creator Chelsea Stowell, BE’13, is quoted.

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ researchers reprogrammed a humanoid robot and an XBox Kinect to help autistic children improve their abilities to engage in social interactions. Nilanjan Sarkar, professor of mechanical and computer engineering, is quoted.

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University seeks to be on the leading edge of the MOOC field with the opening of its Institute for Digital Learning.

Surgery to relieve the damaging pressure caused by hemorrhaging in the brain is a perfect job for a robot. That is the basic premise of a new image-guided surgical system under development at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

Groundbreaking research, cutting-edge systems and university partnerships with industry and government have resulted in new technologies and paradigms that have transformed American industry, and will continue to bolster American competitiveness for the next decade, writes Philippe Fauchet, dean of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University School of Engineering.

An innovative wafer inspection tool developed by a team of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ professors and engineers has been licensed exclusively to startup company Femtometrix.

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University engineers in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems have been awarded a $9.3 million contract over two years to continue their work to mature META tools that are part of a flagship Defense Advanced ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Projects Agency Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program.

A team of computer engineers from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s Institute of Software Integrated Systems has developed an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system. Read More

Within the next one to three years, "bionic" prosthetic devices will become available for the people whose limbs were amputated in the Boston Marathon bombing that are substantially smarter, more capable, more active and more interactive than those currently on the market. Read More

A novel redesign of industrial exhaust stacks that could result in 12% energy savings has earned a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ student design team a second-place win in the team division at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region II conference last week.

A ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ engineering graduate student has created a small-scale, efficient way to produce high-energy density plasma--the state of matter found in the center of stars and gas giants like Jupiter--with a tabletop device.

A team led by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University biomedical engineer Michael Miga, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, and Neurological Surgery, has been awarded a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to enhance image-guided surgery techniques for safely removing liver tumors. Read More

Theodore Malik Russell has received early acceptance notice to take part in the 2013 Summer Undergraduate ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Fellowship program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md.

Cary Pint’s lab – Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory in Olin Hall – is close to completion and it brings to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ its first two atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, relatively small tools that deposit atomically thin layers of material on virtually any surface.

An interdisciplinary collaboration of engineers and doctors at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ and Columbia Universities has designed a robotic microsurgery system specifically designed to treat bladder cancer, the sixth most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the most expensive to treat. Read More

Last month, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University announced a collaboration agreement with GlaxoSmithKline, a leading pharmaceutical and consumer health care company, to develop potential new drugs for severe obesity. Read More

An interdisciplinary team of mechanical engineers and autism experts at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University have developed an adaptive robotic system and used it to demonstrate that humanoid robots can be powerful tools for enhancing the basic social learning skills of children with autism. Read More

Sophomore Param Jaggi was recently named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for his invention of a tailpipe filter that uses algae to convert carbon dioxide to oxygen. Last summer the 18-year-old founded a company to license the technology.