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 increased susceptibility...
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 previous e...
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 activitie...
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. The kn...
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 who earned the...
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 the coll...
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 children, she started...
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. Current...
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 existing techno...
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 was still eno...
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 gas...
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, everyt...
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 nonprofit ment...
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 charge for...
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 kee...
On February 12, Temple Engineering will welcome the largest crop of prominent companies seeking to hire Temple engineers for internships or full-time jobs in engineering. Employers at the 2019 spring Career Fair will represent every engineering discipline, spanning high-tech companies and consultants, shipyards, telecommunications and more.
In the past, students have secured employment and internships as a direct result of career fair meetings, such as Tremayne Pitters (ENG, 18), hired by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Many Temple Engineering alumni are also expect...
Often, breaks between semesters offer a time for the university community to power down. Faculty at Temple College of Engineering used recent breaks to take their research interests abroad to collaborate and learn alongside their international colleagues.
Bojana Gligorijević, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, spent time in her native Serbia, giving a series of lectures at Belgrade University, Life Sciences Institute IBISS and the American Cultural Center. Her work was also featured at an accompanying exhibition titled Science & Art Makers at the Museum of Applied Art...
It turns out that building a small rocket can be a big deal. It is for NASA, after all.
One cohort of Temple Engineering senior design students has entered the NASA Student Launch, a research-based, competition focused on rocket propulsion systems.
Teams participate in a series of NASA design reviews which mirror the NASA engineering design lifecycle. They include Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Flight Readiness Review, and Launch Readiness Review that includes a safety briefing. Teams also must analyze payload and flight data during a Post Launch Assessment R...
Spring is about transformation, something Temple Engineering students and faculty know very well. At 12th and Norris, you can find ways to impact the world by evolving as engineers and as people. As we enter this new semester, our building also continues its own transformation.
The College of Engineering is pleased to begin the second phase of the renovations to the second-floor Science and Engineering Library (SEL). View this short video to get an idea of what is planned for the new space. Watch for more interesting updates from some of our student professional organizations in...
