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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It's not often that you find a student athlete that is also an engineering major, and for good reason. With the strict class requirements and heavy workload, it's tough for a student athlete to work their class schedule around practices and meets. However, when making her college decisions, senior bioengineering student, Rose Biddulph, was up for the challenge. Biddulph hails from Australia, where she first made the decision to start exploring her college options. After touring a few schools in the U.S., she settled on the first one she toured, Temple. Women's rowing competes...
Dr. Bojana Gligorijevic was recently awarded a $700K grant from the Department of Defense as part of their Breast Cancer Research Program. Gligorijevic plays many roles at Temple University, with her primary appointment being an Associate Professor of Bioengineering for the College of Engineering and the Principal Investigator of the Cancer Microscopy and Mechanobiology lab. She is also affiliated with Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and the Fox Chase Cancer Center, where she Co-directs Biological Imaging Facility. The grant...
Dr. Bojana Gligorijevic was recently awarded a $700K grant from the Department of Defense as part of their Breast Cancer Research Program. Gligorijevic plays many roles at Temple University, with her primary appointment being an Associate Professor of Bioengineering for the College of Engineering and the Principal Investigator of the Cancer Microscopy and Mechanobiology lab. She is also affiliated with Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and the Fox Chase Cancer Center, where she Co-directs Biological Imaging Facility. The grant...
Helping prospective students and giving back to those who were in his position in high school is incredibly important to Electrical Engineering Junior Raynel Lopez-Morel. Born in the Dominican-Republic, raised in Philadelphia, and a first-generation college student, he understands the importance of providing guidance to prospective students like himself. Luckily, his role as a College of Engineering Peer Advisor and Student Ambassador allows him to do just that. As a Peer Advisor and Student Ambassador, Lopez-Morel helps with tours, speaks to prospective students, assists with...
After some experience with the National Science Foundation's I-Corps (Innovation-Corps) program earlier in his career, Dr. Iyad Obeid didn't imagine that would eventually land him the title of Faculty Advisor for the Temple University chapter of I-Corps. Interdisciplinary research is something Obeid is very familiar with. With focuses on both electrical and bioengineering, it's no surprise that he's also embraced entrepreneurial thinking throughout his career. Obeid's research focuses on neural processes, or how our brains store, process, and communicate information internally...
Junior Electrical Engineering Major and President of the Robotics Club, Jared Levin, has his eyes on a master's degree and career in robotics, and thanks to the Butz Scholarship those goals can be achieved in that order. "It's really big for me and my family," said Levin on being the 2023 recipient of the Butz Scholarship, a scholarship established by former College of Engineering Professor Dr. Brian Butz and his wife, Temple alumna Susan Butz. As a Junior, Levin has been weighing his options for post-grad life. While his main goal was to pursue a master's degree in robotics...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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.,...