Senior design project leads to NASA connection and club formation 

by Casey Tinney
September 06
Last month Lynn Doepping, a senior mechanical engineering student, and Mark Calhoun, advisor, presented their Spring 2024 senior design project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Doepping, along with fellow engineering students Ian Patterson, ENG' 24 and Nick Barazna, ENG '24, worked with Mark Calhoun on the Space Capsule Simulation project, recreating a portion of the original control panel from the 1962 Mercury Space Capsule. The presentation garnered both an in-person and virtual audience, including NASA employees from office locations across the country. Doepping and...

New Beginnings - Welcome Back!

by Keya Sadeghipour
August 23
To the Temple Engineering Community, Welcome back! I hope you are as thrilled as I am as we commence another academic year. I hope your summer was filled with relaxation, rejuvenation, and professional growth, whether through internships or work, and that you're now ready to embrace the upcoming semester. The fall semester offers a wonderful opportunity for a fresh start and a new beginning.  To those of you arriving on campus for the first time, a warm welcome! Cherish this moment—it's the start of an exciting journey. As you look back on this beginning in the future, it...

Students presenting senior design project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

by Casey Tinney
July 29
Senior mechanical engineering student Lynn Doepping and advisor Mark Calhoun will present their Spring 2024 senior design project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Tuesday, July 30. Students Ian Patterson, Nick Barazna and Lynn Doepping worked with their advisor Mark Calhoun on the Space Capsule Simulation project as their senior design capstone project this past spring. Working on just a portion of a larger, long-term space capsule simulation build, the team recreated a portion of the original control panel from the 1962 Mercury Space Capsule, the first United States...

Revisiting the Nest

by Casey Tinney
June 24
Former Owls often find their way back to Temple's campus, sometimes in ways they don't expect. Temple alum, Chandra Graham, CST '95, is now the Environmental Engineering Pathway Coordinator at Philadelphia's Abraham Lincoln High School. She and her colleague Jason D'Ambrosia (also a Temple alum) brought a group of their students to the College of Engineering for a visit in April. Lincoln High students participated in a demonstration led by Dr. Eve Walters. The focus was water contamination and the purification process. As a former geology major, Graham appreciates the...

Temple Engineers Expand the wetlands at the Newlin Grist Mill

by Casey Tinney
June 19
On June 15th 2024, four Temple Engineering alumni were honored for their design work on the wetland expansion project at the Newlin Grist Mill. All seniors are required to complete a capstone "Senior Design" project during their final year in the College of Engineering. In the Spring of 2020, these former seniors: Jeffrey Pepin, Shaun Spadea, Trent Pepper and Wengang Liu were tasked with the challenge of helping to expand wetlands, a vital part of our ecosystem. Typically, these projects are abstract, but four years later this senior project was actually constructed and brought...

Temple Bioengineering Professor teams with several universities to win NIH Complement-ARIE Prize

by Casey Tinney
June 10
The National Institutes of Health has announced the winners of a crowdsourcing competition for innovative ideas on New Approach Methodologies, or NAMs. The Complement Animal Research In Experimentation (Complement-ARIE) Challenge prize competition offered $1,000,000 in total prize money to diverse teams with ideas for new ways of using NAMs to conduct basic research, uncover disease mechanisms, and translate knowledge into products and practice.  Bioengineering Professor Dr. Evangelia Bellas is part of the winning team, "Population Diversity in Responses from Vaccination," led...

NSF CAREER Award Funds Research on Sustainable Concrete by Temple Engineering Professor

by Casey Tinney
June 03
In a city setting, construction is ever-present. New buildings being assembled, roads and sidewalks being repaired, the list goes on. One thing can be found at nearly every construction site: concrete. Concrete is the most widely used construction material. With a material that ubiquitous, it's crucial to make it as eco-friendly as possible.  "We use concrete in a high volume, which results in higher emissions," explains Dr. Mehdi Khanzadeh Moradllo. Khanzadeh is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Temple's College of Engineering. He is the...

Robotic Takeover

by Casey Tinney
May 10
After years of making tweaks and improvements to their existing NASA Lunabotics Challenge robot, for the first time since 2019, the Temple Robotics Team built a new robot from the ground up. The Robotics Team will take their new robot to the NASA Lunabotics Competition in Florida for the qualifying competition on May 11 - 14. We'll be sharing updates with their results.Full story here: https://tuengineering.shorthandstories.com/robotic-takeover/index.html

2024 Graduation Keynote Speaker: Angela Ahmad

by Casey Tinney
May 06
On Thursday, May 9, College of Engineering alumna Angela Ahmad will return to the nest as she delivers the 2024 commencement keynote address. Ahmad graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. She began her career first as a co-op with the Philadelphia Electric Company (now PECO), while simultaneously earning her degree and starting her family. After earning her degree, Ahmad continued the balance of being a working mother as she worked her way up the corporate ladder through PECO, Exelon corporate and BGE (Baltimore Gas and Electric) where she is...

Dr. Ruth Ochia Inducted as AIMBE Fellow

by Casey Tinney
April 26
In March, Professor of Instruction in Bioengineering, Dr. Ruth Ochia, was inducted to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. AIMBE's College of Fellows represents the top two percent of individuals in the medical and bioengineering community and is considered one of the highest professional distinctions.  AIMBE's mission is to advocate for the medical and bioengineering field as a benefit to the public, including public policy, education, research, etc. It is crucial that all types of bioengineering professionals work together...

Electrical Engineering Faculty Awarded with Grant to Fund AI in Breast Cancer Detection

by Jesse O'Neill
April 24
Dr. Iyad Obeid and his colleague, Dr. Joseph Picone of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, were awarded a $100,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition (PBCC) last week. Their project, Rapid and Inexpensive Precision Breast Cancer Screening Using Machine Learning, seeks to create machine learning software for automatically identifying abnormal cells in breast cancer biopsy slides and making human-interpretable estimates of tumor staging and grading. They plan to use artificial intelligence to analyze cancer biopsy results to create more efficient...

2024 Commencement Student Speaker: Favour Olugbenga

by Casey Tinney
April 15
The College of Engineering is pleased to announce Favour Olugbenga as the 2024 Commencement student speaker. Olugbenga is a passionate student, majoring in Bioengineering. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she has demonstrated a fervent commitment to leveraging technology to revolutionize healthcare. During her time at Temple University, Olugbenga has excelled in cellular-track coursework and led impactful projects, including the development of a cost-efficient compact materials tester and optimization of a hydrogel wound dressing.  She credits her internships at Temple...

Solar Eclipse to be Captured on Film by Senior Design Team

by Jesse O'Neill
April 08
On April 8th, 2024, a College of Engineering Senior Design Team will venture out to Erie, Pennsylvania to capture the solar eclipse on film and provide a live stream to those watching from home.  Team members Jonathan Isley, John Nori, Alexa Sano, Brandon Vaalburg, and  Lloyd Yoo will be launching from a small field in Erie, PA while working with another engineering team from Gannon University who will be launching from the same site.  The Senior Design project is comprised of a high-altitude balloon, cameras and a GPS tracker (payloads), and an intricate grounding system.  To...

Introducing Owl Speak: Engineers Behind the Scenes

by Casey Tinney
April 04
Episode one of Owl Speak: Engineers Behind the Scenes featuring Dr. Cory Budischak is officially available to stream. Dr. Budischak joins student host, Sarah Frasca, to discuss his work in engineering advocacy, carbon emissions, and ethics. Episodes will feature faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the College of Engineering. Available to listen on Spotify and YouTube. 

Dr. Andrew Spence honored with the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award

by Casey Tinney
April 01
Dr. Andrew Spence, Associate Professor of the Bioengineering Department, will be honored as one of this year's recipients of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award.  Through the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation of Philadelphia, the Lindback Distinguished Teaching award honors teaching excellence both in the classroom and clinical settings.  The child of two professionals in academia, Spence credits his parents, one a child psychologist and the other a physics professor, with instilling in him his teaching philosophy: an emphasis on enthusiasm.  "[My] Dad always...

Outside of Engineering: Communications, Crew, and The Exorcist

by Casey Tinney
February 06
Communications, crew, The Exorcist, and Greece may seem like an odd combination, but for Dimitrios Stasinos it's just another academic venture to round out his education. Stasinos, hailing from Greece, is a mechanical engineering 4+1 student and a member of Temple's crew team. It was at a Temple crew race where he first met Dr. Scott Gratson. Gratson is Professor of Instruction in Communication and Social Influence at Klein College of Media and Communication and serves as Director of Temple's Communication Studies Program and Klein College Undergraduate Studies. He is an avid...

Welcome Back to the Spring Semester 2024

by Keya Sadeghipour
January 12
To the College of Engineering Community,  We have officially entered the spring semester and the start of a new year. To the class of 2024, the countdown to graduation is on! I hope that you take this opportunity to finish the academic year strong and build upon your achievements from the fall semester. The College moves in to 2024 riding the wave of multiple successes from our students and faculty. Our faculty earned NSF CAREER Awards. Students showcased their talents at regional conferences and shared how they give back to prospective students. While the fall semester...

Enhancement over Hinderance: Zack Marmol on the Professional Benefits of his Student-Athlete Experience

by Casey Tinney
January 09
While many see the daily schedule of a student-athlete as overwhelming, Civil Engineering Senior and Men's Cross-Country team member Zack Marmol sees his schedule as a benefit towards his professional career. "...I think a lot of people have a civil engineering bachelor's, a lot of people have intern experience, but I think it's cool to have on my resume 'Temple University Student-Athlete.' And I think that when I'm applying for a job, that looks different than someone else," he explains. This past summer Marmol interned with Langan, an engineering and environmental consulting...

NSF Grant Funds Engineering Education Research for Bioengineering Professor

by Casey Tinney
November 28
Set to return from sabbatical for the spring semester, Professor of Instruction Dr. Ruth Ochia of the Bioengineering department was recently awarded a two-year $200K NSF (National Science Foundation) RIEF (Research Initiation Engineering Formation) grant for the enhancement of transfer of design thinking in undergraduate bioengineering students. Ochia will be working with Dr. Avi Kaplan, a professor at Temple's College of Education and Human Development as her mentor for this grant. In her 10 years as a professor at Temple's College of Engineering, Ochia noticed a pattern...

STEPS Scholars Take Third Place at IEEE Sumobot Competition

by Casey Tinney
November 13
A year ago, Shahzad Khan and Sahil Singh were trying to figure out what they wanted to study and where they wanted to go to college. Now, halfway through their first semester of college, they've already attended a regional IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) conference and have plans to start a new club at the College of Engineering. Khan and Singh recently participated in the IEEE Region 1...