Growing up in New York City, Justin Chan's fascination with the city skyline made him consider architecture and design as a career path--until he found civil engineering. Now, he is completing his second internship as a Temple Engineering student, working for Amtrak at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. This follows his previous experience as an intern engineer in the transportation department for the infrastructure design firm HNTB. "For both internships, I learned the importance of collaboration," Justin said. "There are so many large projects with people from many...
Mechanical engineering student Jezreel Konstantinos leveraged an appreciation for mathematics—along with a stint with Temple Formula Racing—to help complete back-to-back internships with Tesla, first with the Chassis/Torque parts quality team, then as part of the Model 3 Quality Engineering inline quality team."I worked with a team of engineers to train deep learning software to detect high severity defects on the line in real-time, designed and built high-precision pressure leak tests for the Model 3 brake system, proposed part design changes for safety-critical...
Engineering is about building bridges in more ways than one.
Over the summer, Temple Engineering and its STEM programs team welcomed a number of Philadelphia youth to campus to engage in engineering enrichment programs. From the Women's Engineering Exploration (WE2) program to robotics camp and others, students got hands-on experience across engineering disciplines.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Rouzbeh Tehrani hosted campers from the East Poplar Recreation Center, located just blocks from campus, for a one-day workshop on water quality. He was...
Dr. Rominder Suri, Professor & Chair of the Temple Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the NSF Water and Environmental (WET) Center, has secured a $4.25 million grant to support water research and educational activities.
The effort is part of a $30 million award over five years from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to a consortium of five American universities. Temple, partnering with American University in Cairo, has finalized plans for the creation of the Center of Excellence on Water Resiliency....
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Mohammad F. Kiani, in collaboration with Dr. Laurie E. Kilpatrick in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, was recently awarded nearly $1.5 million by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to develop a rapid screening system to understand cellular mechanisms of sepsis, thereby allowing rapid screening of therapeutic development. The $1.5 million award comes with an additional two year, $1 million DTRA option.
In mass casualty situations, including exposure to chemical, biological and nuclear agents, there is...
This week marks the creation of a new Department of Engineering, Technology, and Management after approval by the Temple University Board of Trustees. The new department will serve as the academic home of existing degree programs focused on industrial practice: Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Master of Science in Engineering Management.
Dr. Thomas Edwards, Director of the Engineering Management Program, will be the Interim Chair for the new department. His...
Bioengineering Assistant Professor Bojana Gligorijevic recently secured a $2 million research R01 grant, provided by the National Institutes of Health-National Cancer Institute. This award will support her research in cancer cell metastasis, which is widely considered the cause for more than 90 percent of breast cancer-related deaths.
Dr. Gligorijevic has previously shown that "invadopodia"—cancer cell protrusions that degrade the connective tissue—are necessary for metastasis. For the next five years, her project will investigate how cancer cells coordinate their...
Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Jie Yin has been awarded the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The $500,000 award will support fundamental research on the mechanical behavior of kirigami-based reconfigurable two dimensional (2-D) and three dimensional (3-D) structures.
This research program will establish a theoretical framework for connecting the macroscopic mechanical behavior and cuts-based microstructures in a new class of kirigami-based structures, which are reconfigurable in both 2-D and 3-D....
Temple Engineering students and faculty again posted strong showings both on-campus and off, winning prestigious research awards, fellowships, scholarships and more.
Mitchell Young named Goldwater Scholar
The recognition was recently referred to as "the Rhodes Scholarship of STEM," by Honors Program Senior Director Ruth Ost. It is awarded to students in science, technology, engineering and math fields based on exemplary academic achievement.
The dual mechanical engineering and physics major is Temple's second consecutive Goldwater Scholar, following Marcus Forst...
Often, when pressing your foot on the gas pedal of a car and driving off, it's easy to let your thoughts turn to the journey. For Andrea Poosikian, she likes to think about the car, itself. How the brakes work, how the drivetrain works. It's a natural thought process for an engineering student--especially one who completed two completed two internships with General Motors in Michigan.
"I like the way electrical engineering helps you like contextualize the things that you see in everyday life," she said.
Poosikian has helped provide context, herself, as an ambassador for...
Before she heads to Northwestern Medical School, bioengineering student Katherine Bolten recalled a conversation she had with a Temple chemistry professor.
"If you truly want to help people, don't be a doctor. Be a doctor that does more," the professor told her. Looking back at her Temple Engineering career, Katherine has already begun to fuse her engineering education with medicine to start on that path.
In 2016, Bolten spent time in Nicaragua as part of a student health fellowship. After learning that only one-third of women in the area breastfed their...
Honorable Timothy A. Reese (ENG, 90), former Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, will deliver the alumni keynote address at the College of Engineering spring commencement ceremony on May 9. He will be joined by Temple IEEE Vice President Tyler Ressler, a candidate to receive his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering, who will deliver the student address.Since earning his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology from Temple University, Mr. Reese has spent more than 28 years within the finance and technology industry....
The World Health Organization has targeted reducing anemia 50% among pregnant women by 2025 as one of its five primary global nutrition targets. But, when it comes to a health issue affects about a half a billion reproductive-age women worldwide, where do you begin?
One Temple Engineering Senior Design team approached the issue practically, looking at cost and point of care, particularly in low-resource environments.
Working with Assistant Professor Chetan Patil, bioengineering students Shreyas Chandragiri, Paul Gehret, Kyle Jezler and Seth McBride are modifying...
How much weight can you put on a shoulder that's been surgically repaired four times? The answer may be two-fold: one clinical and another spelled out in perseverance.
Before she was awarded an academic scholarship to attend Temple, Morgan Rollins was a standout soccer goalie for Tower Hill High School in Delaware. A game during her freshman year is when the bad breaks started, first with a tear to her labrum and biceps tendon. After six months of rehab, she injured the same shoulder sophomore year, and again at the start of her senior year.
Even with injuries, it...
The idiom "there must be something in the water" can be applied a lot of ways. One senior design team wants to see if they can do something about the 'something'. They are researching the potential for one new technology designed to reduce nitrate levels in wastewater.
The team is working with Ofir Menashe, CEO of Bio-Castle, an environmental biotech company in Israel. The company's Small Bioreactor Platform (SBP) capsule technology is helping them to do it. Menashe provided the NatiCap De-nitro capsules, which contain denitrifying bacteria that convert nitrate into nitrogen...
Salman Alotaibi, graduating with a mechanical engineering degree, had his first brush with the Amir of his home country of Kuwait—His Highness Sabah Al-Sabah—when he was about nine years old. Though, it wasn't Salman but his friend who met the monarch and head of state—an event that Salman admits made him a little jealous.
This was around the same time Salman first applied his natural mechanical mindset while working on a car engine in the Kuwait Science Club (pictured at right).
"It took me about one month to diagnose the engine, from the crankshaft to the valves,...
Every Thursday, senior electrical engineering student Elijah Zimmerman makes the eight-minute walk from Temple College of Engineering to the U School at 7th and Norris streets. Sitting with 18-year-old U School student Anthony, Elijah acts as part sounding board, part college interpreter: how to apply, what to expect and maybe offering some not-so-subtle reminders to follow up on those scholarship applications.
"You've gotta stay on top of those," Zimmerman smiled. "Scholarships represent the work you already put in toward your education."
Zimmerman is part of the...
After leaving Wilkes University with a degree in electrical engineering, Kaitlyn Sitch passed on job offers from Fiat Chrysler and two other companies to pursue graduate studies at Temple Engineering. And though she's still settling on a specific research area—power electronics or power systems lead the list—one thing is certain; her current work is related to transportation. Just not cars.
Working with faculty advisor Dr. Liang Du, Kaitlyn is researching the viability of microgrid support for electric buses.
"Right now, some cities have electric buses that only...
The Temple chapter of Society of Women Engineers spent some time at the ballpark recently, but not to play baseball. Instead, nine Temple engineering students got some inside baseball on the major renovations happening in and around Citizens Bank Park.Even before announcing the addition of Bryce Harper, one of the sport's biggest stars, the Phillies pursued substantial changes to the stadium's ground-level. Now, with nearly 300,000 tickets sold in the days following the slugger's signing, safely managing the flow of fans into the stadium has become an even more acute need.The...
Temple engineering sophomore Mechanical and Civil Engineering students have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad studying engineering in Rome, Italy without missing a beat in their engineering coursework. Mechanical Engineering major Athena Chan is sharing her Rome journey this semester, sharing one second video snapshots from everyday—everything from her morning macchiato to Mechanics of Solids class."I'm currently taking Engineering Dynamics, Statistical and Classical Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Solids and Italian I," Athena said. "It's really on the students to...
