| NEWSLETTER | FEBRUARY 2023
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FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN |
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Stevens Day of Giving ends today! For 1,870 minutes alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends have come together to support the causes at Castle Point that mean the most to them. Click here before 7:10 p.m. ET to support the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science.
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Sydney Daniel joins ME as Academic Advisor, effective as of February 1.
- The next SES Networking Ideas and Exchange (NIEx) Forum will be held on Tuesday, February 28 from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in McLean 510.
- SES Faculty Meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 1 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. followed by a reception in Gateway North, Corcoran Room 103.
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The following events were successfully held over the past month:
- January 25 – ME Town Hall Meeting
- February 3 – BME Day
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February 8 – SES Strategic Plan Town Hall Meeting (presentation slides from the meeting can be found here)
- February 15 – CS Carnivale Open House
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Adeniyi Lawal’s research into mitigating released methyl bromide is on its way to making pest-removal for logging safer for both people and the planet
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Interdisciplinary group researches difficult mathematical equations to make it easier to secure data from the looming risks of quantum computing
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Stevens electrical and computer engineering researcher Lei Wu is helping create a better way to incorporate local sources of renewable energy into the large-scale power grid
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Stevens civil engineering professor Kaijian Liu co-develops method that integrates relevant data from multiple sources, learning and analyzing with more predictive power
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Elnaz Banan Sadeghian, PI and ECE Assistant Professor, received an NSF CAREER award of $551K for her project “CAREER: Multitrack Read Channel Designs for Modern Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording.”
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Jan Cannizzo (pictured top), PI and MS Teaching Associate Professor, Gail Baxter, Co-PI and Interim Director of CIESE, and Andrey Nikolaev (pictured bottom), Co-PI and MS Teaching Associate Professor, received an NSF award of $300K for their project "Impact of Community Engagement on STEM Undergraduates: A Case Study of Math Circles for Urban Elementary School Students.”
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Yuping Huang, PI, PHY Gallaher Associate Professor and Director of CQSE, received a NASA award of $121K for his project “Super Resolving Astronomical Targets by Leveraging Quantum Measurements” (with Ball Aerospace as prime).
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Raviraj Nataraj, PI and BME Assistant Professor, received an NSF CAREER award of $622K for his project “CAREER: Personalizing Sensory-Driven Computerized Interfaces to Optimize Motor Rehabilitation.”
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Jason Rabinovitch, PI and ME Assistant Professor, received a NASA award of $17K for his project “Permeability Analysis to Support ASPIRE2 PI” (with JPL as prime).
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Dibyendu "Dibs" Sarkar, PI and CEOE Professor, received a DoD award of $1.25M for his project “Green Remediation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Soil and Water.” He also received a HUD award of $250K for his project “A System Dynamics Simulative Model to Assess Bioaccessibility of Lead in the Environment” (with Montclair State University as prime).
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Yong Meng Sua, PI, PHY and CQSE Research Assistant Professor, and Yuping Huang, Co-PI, PHY Gallaher Associate Professor and Director of CQSE, received a Cisco Systems, Inc. award of $171K for their project “Lithium Niobate Photonics for Next Generation High-Capacity Coherent Optical Communication Systems.”
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Chemical engineering and materials science teaching assistant professor Sarah Goodman challenges the assumption that higher-education coursework — particularly at a graduate-level — must be dry to be rigorous
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Stevens environmental engineering professor Dibs Sarkar says 3M’s decision to stop producing PFAS “forever chemicals” by 2025 is a step in the right direction, but much more needs to be done to fix the errors of the past
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Joe Shiminsky ’04 M.S. ’07 credits the Stevens co-op program and a chance encounter for starting him on a more than decade-long career path in the pharmaceutical industry
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Funding from former Stevens trustee Thomas H. Scholl helps student teams develop innovation in education, healthcare, the arts and civic engagement
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ASME featured ME Associate Professor Nick Parziale's research group and its work with the Stevens shock tunnel. Students showed how they get hands-on experience in fluid dynamics and aerospace engineering by using the shock tunnel to simulate flight speeds up to Mach 6.
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Digital Trends reported on ME Assistant Professor Jason Rabinovitch's research on the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars and its interaction with Martian dust. The research was in collaboration with Stevens, the Space Science Institute, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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ASME highlighted ME Ph.D. student Ralf Zgeib's research on leveraging additive biomanufacturing methods to create functional organs. Zgeib's work is part of ME Associate Professor Robert Chang's Biomodeling and Biomeasuremnt Lab to advance biotechnology and 3D bioprinting solutions.
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FOX Weather conducted a live interview with CEOE Professor George Korfiatis to discuss the reasons sinkholes form after extreme weather events.
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03/01/23: SES Faculty Meeting
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03/07/23: SES Women's Faculty Luncheon
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03/13-17/23: SPRING RECESS – No Classes; Offices Open
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03/29/23: Stevens Faculty Meeting
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