When Katia Yakubova walks across the stage at commencement and into her first job, a conversation from high school is likely to be on her mind.
"I had this teacher who was really passionate and got me interested in engineering. I asked him if he thought I'd be a good engineer. He straight up told me no—maybe I'd be better off as a music teacher," she laughed. "At first it kind of stung, but I thought about it more and maybe initially I pursued engineering out of spite, but I ended up loving the material after coming to Temple, so in the end, it all worked out"
The first-genera...
It's hard to imagine John Jasionowicz not being busy.
The civil engineering major took time before a quiz and after picking up his Army ROTC uniform, to talk about his next stop after leaving Temple. But before going into what's next, there are the many activities he's done while he was here, including representing the college on the student recreation board and with Temple Student Government (Campus Safety) and Temple Office of Leadership Development (Diamond Leader), Engineers Without Borders, and internships with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NASA, Schnabel Foundation Com...
Often, some of the best answers are the simplest ones. That's particularly true for senior design, which challenges students to solve an issue or build a product through engineering.
After pitching their senior design project during the recent Fox School of Business Innovative Idea Competition, mechanical engineering students Salman Alotaibi and Yaqoub Bushehri got instant feedback that let them know they were on the right track.
"This random guy approached me after, he said he hiked and backpacked religiously," Bushehri said, describing the man who represented their target audi...
An unused pool and lounge area behind Temple Towers is the focus of on Temple Engineering senior design team's project. This involves working with water, but not for recreation. Rather, their focus is designing a stormwater management area.
Managing storm runoff can be tricky, particularly for urban environments. And Philadelphia has what's known as a combined sewer system, designed to collect rainwater runoff, domestic sewage, and industrial wastewater in the same pipe. This means that, unchecked, stormwater runoff can overwhelm the system.
According to the Philadelphia Wate...
If you can comfortably read this, you likely do not suffer from age-related macular degeneration—blurring of the sharp "straight-ahead" vision from retinal damage. However, it's a condition that affects nearly eight million American seniors, impeding everyday activities like reading and driving.
A Temple Engineering senior design team, working with faculty advisors Dr. Peter Lelkes and Dr. Yah-el Har-el in the Department of Bioengineering, is seeking to improve on research techniques for the National Institutes of Health and National Eye Institute, to help with more complet...
Ron Kerins, Jr. (ENG, 84), CCM, LEED-AP, MBA, will soon add another line to his already-impressive resume: commencement speaker.
Since earning his BS in both Civil & Construction Engineering and Architecture from Temple College of Engineering in 1984, Kerins has spent more than three decades building a career in construction while also staying connected to his alma mater. He is currently a Principal of GREYHAWK, an international construction management consulting firm.
He is a past director of the Temple University Alumni Board, serves in emeritus status for the Temple Co...
Recent reports show a continued decline in international students choosing to study in the United States. According to the 2018 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, the number of students enrolling for the first time at American colleges dropped nearly 7 percent from 2016 to 2017. While our student body is diverse, Temple Engineering has seen a similar trend emerge.
This is particularly concerning to me, both as a first-generation immigrant and an engineer, but also as an educator for more than three decades. In order for this country to remain competitive...
Tremayne Pitters (ECE, 18) started building his soon-to-be top secret engineering career by dismantling something: his family PC.
As a child, the first generation Jamaican-American wanted to modify it into a better-performing machine, so he took it apart and something clicked, leading his natural curiosity to a computer electrical engineering major at Temple. Now, he's going to be a developing satellite technology for the intelligence community following an interview offer from the recent Career Fair.
"I had friends who had these powerful gaming PCs," he said. "So, I wanted...
Earlier this year, Temple Engineering announced the creation of a new BS program—Industrial and Systems Engineering—designed to blend business and engineering. In November, Andrew Marsh (ENG, 82) came back to campus to stress the importance of experience in both fields to freshmen interested in the new major.
He should know. Though Marsh studied electrical engineering at Temple, the 2017 Gallery of Success honoree is President and CEO of Plug Power, a New York-based fuel cell manufacturer, providing solutions for customers such as Walmart, Kroger, BMW and Procter and G...
Undergraduate and graduate advising have transformed over recent months, with many new faces joining the College of Engineering.
Assistant Director of Advising Melissa Valdes and Academic Advisor Danielle Dailey recently joined Career Counselor Leslie Silva, who came aboard in January, in the Undergraduate Advising office. Graduate Student Services Coordinator Felix Flores also joined the college in March.
Only Dailey is new to Temple, with the others transitioning from other schools within the university. Something they all share is an appreciation for Temple's diversity and s...
Dr. Joe McGinley (ENG, 96) is about as Temple made as you can be. After earning four degrees from Temple—BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, PhD in Physiology and MD from Katz School of Medicine—McGinley became a practicing surgeon, radiologist and physician. He can now count Gallery of Success honoree among his many titles.
During Homecoming weekend, McGinley was recognized alongside outstanding alumni from 16 other schools and colleges into the gallery, which showcases Temple University alumni who have utilized the skills and knowledge learned at Temple to chart their...
Anyone having undergone a medical procedure knows: the procedure itself is just the beginning. The road to recovery is dotted with consultations and planning, tailored to each patient. Often, these include instructions for patients to manage their own care, exercises to be performed at home, visits to therapists and doctors and, at times, some sort of wearable technology to help medical professionals gather data on recovery.
One Temple College of Engineering researcher wants to use non-wearable technology to remotely monitor patient progress in their own home. Dr. Fauzia Ahmad,...
Getting its start with the Department of Bioengineering in 2013, the Integrated Cellular Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory (i-CTERM) at Temple College of Engineering takes personal healing in the most literal sense. Department Chair Dr. Peter Lelkes and the lab's team pursue a variety of projects primarily focused on cellular tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
And now, for the first time, one of those projects is patentable.
Assistant Professor of Instruction Dr. Jon Gerstenhaber has developed 3-D printing technology that uses electrospinning to...
A record-breaking 75 employers from around the country visited Temple University seeking to recruit, interview and hire Temple Engineering students recently at the fall Career Fair.
Companies ranged from energy utilities and related firms like American Water and PPL to transit agencies like Amtrak, SEPTA and New Jersey Department of Transportation. Biomedical firms like US BioDesign and Merck also joined construction companies like Gilbane, Pennoni and Turner Construction.
Many companies also included Temple alumni, including Jennifer Kullgren (ENG, 17), who came back to campus...
Engineering is often described as an intersection: where the conceptual meets the practical. That’s the lens through which Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Fei Ren looks at his research in power generation through nanostructured thermoelectric materials.
“When you have science and something of useful impact together, engineering is a natural option,” Dr. Ren said.
Ren is collaborating with the Materials Science and Technology Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he worked prior to joining the faculty at Temple College of Engineering. Nan...
James Karchner's road to Washington, DC didn't start out with a bang. It was more of a pop, really. One that left the him lying on the worn grass on a Pennsylvania high school football field.
"It was like a balloon popping," James remembered about his ACL tear during a freshman year scrimmage. "But when we went to the ER, they said to ice it up. "After doing what's called a Lachman's Test, it was deemed just a strain. Unsurprising news for someone with naturally-loose joints.
A week after his ER visit, James was back in action, this time for rigorous two-a-day practices in the s...
To understand breast cancer, it seems, is to understand timing.
Researchers and clinicians have chased breast cancer, a nimble and deadly opponent, since as far back as Egypt in 1500 BC. During much of that time, they have preached early detection. In a practical sense, if a cancer is identified in time, it can be surgically removed or shrunk with chemotherapy. If it's not, and it metastasizes to a secondary site, there is practically no cure.
Temple College of Engineering researchers are looking at new and novel ways to predict metastasis before it happens by using mathematical...
The intervention is real-time, positive behavior reinforcement. If participants are doing well, they receive push alerts letting them know. If they need a bit of encouragement, the mobile app responds in-kind.
“One participant is a mechanic. We explained the three-month process, and how the intervention would work in month three. Two months later, he called us and said, ‘whoa, this is freaking me out! It detects me every time I’m doing a moderate or vigorous activity!’ He was obviously excited,” Dr. Hiremath laughed.
“As those goals come in throughout the day, it’s...
Bridges and roads are only two examples, but they are costly ones. Recent estimates for completely repairing the backlog of America’s bridges are an estimated $123 billion. Other striking possibilities for MASW in geotechnical engineering include earthquake research.
For example, the U.S. Geological Survey is seeking more expansive data on soft soil zones to characterize potential seismic hazards, something Dr. Coe is also pursuing with the MASW method.
Villanova University joined Dr. Coe on the proposal to complement the surface wave methodology with database work. The goal?...
Students looking for an internship or full-time job in engineering are set to find the biggest and most prominent grouping of employers to date at the Engineering Career Fair on Thursday, October 4, 2018.
More than 75 employers from around the country will be at the career fair offering jobs to Temple Engineers. On the list are energy and utility companies such as AECOM, American Water and PPL and governmental agencies such as Amtrak, SEPTA, NJ DoT and the Philadelphia Streets Department. Just a few of the representative pharmaceutical, biomedical and manufacturing companie...
