The College of Engineering’s newest bioengineering professor: Dr. Anita Singh

by Casey Tinney
September 18
With the Spring 2023 semester under her belt, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Dr. Anita Singh, is bringing her dedication to students and passion for her research to her first full academic year as a professor at Temple University. After just one semester, when asked what she enjoys most about Temple, Singh immediately says she "loves the students." When she learned her first class would be an 8 AM course, Singh explains "[I] went in with the fear I may not be able to get them to talk back to me when I asked questions, but it was an absolute pleasure...the students have...

Getting to Know Dean Keya Sadeghipour

by Casey Tinney
September 14
As the Dean of the College of Engineering for over 20 years, Keya Sadeghipour has seen the College through many iterations. Dean Keya's journey in engineering began at 17 years old when he left his home country of Iran to pursue an education in England. He first joined the College of Engineering at Temple in 1987, where he was eventually appointed as Dean in 2003. In his time at Temple, Dean Keya has served in many roles, even as interim Dean of the College of Science and Technology. In addition to his 36 years at Temple University, Dean Keya has a plethora of international...

Welcome Back!

by Keya Sadeghipour
August 25
To the Temple Engineering Community,Welcome to the commencement of another exciting school year! To the Class of 2027, a warm and hearty welcome to the College of Engineering! We are delighted to have you join our ranks and are eagerly anticipating the remarkable accomplishments you will undoubtedly achieve. To our returning students, welcome back! I trust that you share in my enthusiasm for yet another year of building upon past accomplishments and forging ahead to attain new pinnacles of success.Although the summer afforded us all a chance to rejuvenate, our students remained...

Esteemed Temple professor awarded two grants for array signal processing

by Sarah Frasca
August 22
Wireless communications, radar sensing, medical imaging, radio astronomy. Each of these applications is essential to our everyday lives, and array signal processing, a key enabling technology that uses adaptively controlled sensors to detect and decode signals, allows them to exist. This instrumental technology is also the focus of Dr. Yimin Daniel Zhang's highly esteemed research. "It's a good balance between an algorithmic approach and work with a real-world application, so I think it is pretty fun and pretty useful and a really big research area," said Dr. Zhang, an...

NSF CAREER Award funds Temple Engineering professor’s interdisciplinary human-robot interaction research

by Sarah Frasca
July 18
According to Dr. Daniel Jacobs, a Mechanical Engineering professor at Temple's College of Engineering, robots are very easy to understand."You can take their parts apart, you can put in new parts, they're very easy to simulate," he explained. "Humans are not. We can only measure certain things from the surface."Dr. Jacobs explores physical human-robot interaction, a research niche in the broad interdisciplinary field of rehabilitation robotics that overlaps engineering and public health. He's always asking, "How can robots be used to improve human health?"Now, his research will...

How a Bioengineering Professor is leading DEIA efforts in STEM spaces

by Sarah Frasca
July 10
Dr. Evangelia Bellas, a bioengineering professor, recognized the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) from a young age, partly due to her experience growing up, and since the start of her professional career, she's found various ways to center DEIA in her work.Dr. Bellas was born in Boston to Greek immigrant parents and experienced life a bit differently from others, as English wasn't her first language and everything in the United States was new to her family. Growing up, she watched her parents be made fun of for their accents and her...

A passion for power (grids): electrical engineering student wins Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award

by Sarah Frasca
July 06
John Nori, a senior electrical engineering major with a computer engineering concentration has been infatuated with computers and electrical systems throughout his life, always wondering how exactly they work."They are sort of magical in a way," Nori said.Now, he's pursuing his innate curiosity with his Temple education, which allows him to study computer systems and understand their inner workings, as well as inspire his award-winning research.This past fall semester, Nori was awarded Temple's Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award in STEM, which recognizes outstanding...

Engineering students take the win for 2 major competitions

by Sarah Frasca
May 17
On April 20, a group of five senior bioengineering majors competed in the Fox School of Business's 25th Annual Be Your Own Boss Bowl; the next day, on April 21, the team presented for the College of Engineering's Spring 2023 Senior Design competition.  The Senior Design team — Eesha Thakur, Sydney Reid, Zoe Wevodau, Joshua Pletcher and Hetavi Patel — placed first in both events. "We were just kind of shocked the entire time," Thakur said. "But we were very happy with the outcome."The team picked up their Senior Design assignment from their advisor Dr. James Furmato'...

An owl returns to her nest as a keynote speaker for the College of Engineering’s commencement

by Sarah Frasca
May 09
This Thursday, Darcy Antonellis, an accomplished businesswoman and Temple University alumna, will be returning to her alma mater as the keynote speaker for the College of Engineering's Spring 2023 commencement ceremony."It's terrific to return to Temple and our College of Engineering to share in this milestone day with the graduates, their families and Temple's accomplished community of professors and staff," Antonellis said.Currently, Antonellis is a board director for various technology, media and entertainment companies, including Xperi Inc., Cinemark Holdings Inc.,...

Developing Young Minds: A Summer in STEM

by Sarah Frasca
May 01
Two years ago, Dr. Eve Walters, an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was asked to direct a summer camp for the College of Engineering. Excited and nervous about her new responsibility, she realized she now had the chance to team up with Philadelphia students to explore STEM topics.  The college currently has a variety of high school and pre-college summer programs which motivated Walters to target middle school students. Together with Dr. Shawn Fagan, they launched the College's Philadelphia Youth for STEM (PY-STEM)...

Mechanical Engineering professor granted selective ASME Fellow distinction

by Sarah Frasca
March 29
Last month, Parsaoran Hutapea, a Mechanical Engineering professor, was honored to be nominated and elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his research and development contributions to the field. He impressively joined fewer than 3,000 of ASME's more than 100,000 members who have been selected as Fellows. "It's an honor to be recognized by my peers," Hutapea said. "It validates that I have done good research at Temple's College of Engineering. It's only about 1-3% of ASME members are fellows, so I am proud." Hutapea has been involved with ASME,...

Engineering and Fox students collaborate for Lockheed Martin’s Ethics in Engineering Competition

by Sarah Frasca
March 28
Earlier this month, Willow Neske, a senior bioengineering major, represented Temple University in its first appearance at Lockheed Martin's Sixth Annual Ethics in Engineering Competition. "I was excited to be chosen because this seemed like an interesting opportunity to learn more about ethics, and then also get to see the Lockheed Martin facilities and meet people from all over the country," Neske said.She traveled with Fox School of Business senior Courtney Sabanas to Lockheed Martin headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, for the competition, which took place from Feb. 27 to...

Postdoc from Gligorijevic lab wins early career research grant

by Sarah Frasca
March 03
When Ines Velazquez Quesada, a bioengineering postdoctoral fellow, first learned that she received the METAvivor's Metastatic Breast Cancer Early Career Research Grant Award, she did a double-take.  "I had to read it three, four times, then one week after I kept reading just to make sure it was true," Velazquez Quesada said. Velazquez Quesada's proposal, titled "Impact of the neuron-breast cancer cell interactions on the growth and survival of brain metastasis" is part of her research on metastatic breast cancer. The early investigator award will support two years of research. ...

Archibald Filshell, ENG, '88, named 2023 Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year by Engineers' Club of Philadelphia

by Eric Horvath
February 21
The Engineers' Club of Philadelphia announced that Archibald S. Filshill, Ph.D., 1988 graduate of Temple University College of Engineering, and chief executive officer of Aero Aggregates of North America, has been elected as the 2023 Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year. This distinguished award recognizes a standout local engineer who emulates the qualities and talents that define professional excellence, civic duty, society leadership and community stewardship. Filshill was selected by representatives of local, multi-disciplinary, engineering and technical societies and will...

Temple Engineering professor earns NSF CAREER Award for energy research

by Sarah Frasca
February 07
Liang Du, an electrical and computer engineering professor, was at the mall for Thanksgiving weekend when he received an email from the National Science Foundation explaining that his project proposal was being considered for funding."It felt unreal and exciting," he said.Now, Dr. Du is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award for his project "Redesign of Ancillary Services via Aggregation and Disaggregation of Information, Flexibility, and Capability."The Faculty Early Career Development Program seeks out early-career faculty who could be future academic role models and leaders in...

A big pitch in 90 seconds: Temple Engineering PhD student wins IEEE research competition 

by Sarah Frasca
January 31
Electrical and computer engineering doctoral student Nazia Rahman was awarded first place in the 2022 IEEE Sensors Conference Big Idea Pitch competition in Dallas, Texas, this past fall. Rahman pitched her research topic, "Identifying Benign and Malignant Breast Tumor Using Vibro-Acoustic Tactile Imaging Sensor," in 90 seconds at the conference. The project in development at Temple's Control, Sensor, Network, and Perception Laboratory aims to use a noninvasive smartphone-based system to capture images of mammary tumors and then process and characterize them. Mammograms are not...

Temple engineering students repair damaged watershed during Wellness Day

by Sarah Frasca
January 18
The Temple chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Engineers Without Borders tweaked their October Wellness Day experience, dedicating their time to environmental fieldwork.The crew replanted more than 50 trees along a tributary of the West Branch of Chester Creek after the area was clear-cut of trees during a PennDOT expansion project on U.S. Route 322. Student volunteers, like civil engineering major and co-president of Temple ASCE Caroline Merrill, dug holes, planted trees and added cages to protect them from wildlife."I participated because I knew it would...

Senior design team developing technology for visually impaired public transit users

by Sarah Frasca
December 07
In some ways, the odds were stacked against Chan Yoo, Wole Kiyesi and Mikell Williams from the start.The senior design team proposed creating a solution for transit riders experiencing visual impairments under advisor Dr. Fauzia Ahmad. However, the project called for at least four computer and mechanical engineering students with an understanding of machine learning. Yoo and Kiyesi are electrical engineering majors, and Williams studies civil engineering.As Chan Yoo told his teammates, "If we finish this project that really means we're built different."Their team was disrupted...

A brace with impact: senior design project focuses on support brace for dropped head syndrome

by Sarah Frasca
November 16
Bioengineering major Ciara O'Donohoe called it a "Grammy moment," when her team's senior design project earned top honors at the Fox School of Business "Be Your Own Boss Bowl."The project sought to improve upon the design for the Headmaster Collar, a neck brace that supports individuals with dropped head syndrome. The team—O'Donohoe, Grace Buckwalter, Elena Paoli, Lucy Eppert and Rachel Gouveia—are in the end stages of their design after being connected with a sponsor through the Temple University Prosthetics and Orthotics student professional organization. They...

Finance and flexibility: a student’s internship experience in data engineering 

by Sarah Frasca
October 24
For Olubukola Famuyiwa, the journey to his recent internship with FS Investments has been a winding one. The senior industrial and systems engineering major has lived in Long Island, Queens and Nigeria, attended community college and even pursued a career as a mechanic. One common thread remains from his engineering education and experience as a data engineering intern in a new field for him: flexibility.  Olu spent his summer focusing on data engineering as a technology intern at the South Philadelphia finance firm. There, he worked on a project focused on data access for...