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  BE Students Attend BMES Conference | Biological Engineering

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  The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is a society of professionals devoted to developing and using engineering and technology to advancing human health and well-being. This year students from the Biological Engineering department at Utah State University attended the annual BMES conference. Here is what one of our students, Ian Wadsworth had to say about the conference.

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  The Pop-Up Effect: Why Buoyant Spheres Don’t Always Leap Out of the Water | College of Engineering

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  News Release – LOGAN, UTAH, Nov. 2, 2016 – It’s a common swimming pool game: Force a buoyant ball underwater and let it go. The ball springs to the surface and jumps into the air. But, submerge the ball deeper underwater and the effect is often disappointing. Contrary to intuition, increasing the release depth often leads to a decreased pop-up height.

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  USU AWWA Tour | Civil and Environmental Engineering

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  The newly formed student chapter of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) recently went on tours of two water facilities. In early October, ten students attend a tour of the Utah Water Research Laboratory here at USU. The students enjoyed seeing applied research that is conducted at the lab. This week, the chapter also visited the Franklin Idaho Drinking Water Treatment Plant. This exposure to the industry has been a remarkable professional and academic experience for the Chapter.

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  New Scholarship Endowment Honors Former USU Civil Engineering Professor Roland Jeppson | College of Engineering

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  News Release – LOGAN, UTAH, Oct. 26, 2016 – A newly-established scholarship endowment for USU College of Engineering students will honor former professor Roland Jeppson and his wife, Mary Anna, of Providence, Utah.

  The Jeppsons established the fund to help civil and environmental engineering undergraduate students successfully complete their degrees and pursue careers in water resources engineering.

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  New Visiting Scholar | Engineering Education

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  Professor Jacek Uziak is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. He is helping the Department in the design of a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Education to be offered as an online program starting next fall. He is also collaborating with different faculty in various areas of Engineering Education research including the teaching of mechanics, engineering leadership, and application of learning management systems (LMS).

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  Annual Pumpkin Toss Combines Fall, Physics and Fun | College of Engineering

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  News Release – LOGAN, UTAH, Oct. 20, 2016 – Autumn is in the air. Er, no wait. ... That’s a flying pumpkin.

  Engineering students from across Utah will compete Saturday, Oct. 29 to see who can hurl their ripening jack-o’-lanterns the farthest.

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  Congratulations A-Pin Recipients | College of Engineering

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  Oct. 18, 2016 – Interim Dean Jagath Kaluarachchi and department heads from across the College of Engineering on Tuesday recognized 28 students for receiving the prestigious A-Pin award.

  The A-Pin is one of the oldest awards at Utah State University. Initiated in 1910, it acknowledges and rewards students who achieve a straight-A grade point average while carrying 15 graded credit hours for two consecutive semesters.

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  It’s an Aggie Thing | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – A group of USU alumni who work at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., are doing something to pass along the same benefits they received as students. The team created a scholarship fund that has awarded up to $1,000 per year to multiple recipients. Henry Coakley (BS ’06, MS ’08) initiated the fund.

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  Union Wireless Supports Engineering Students at Utah State University | College of Engineering

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  NEWS RELEASE – OCT. 17, 2016 – Erik Sargent and Landon Wilcox are the two recipients of the 2016 Union Wireless Scholarships awarded to Utah State University Engineering students. Erik and Landon were honored at a recognition luncheon hosted by Union Wireless in Logan, Utah on Thursday, October 13, 2016. In attendance at the luncheon were Erik Sargent (scholarship recipient), Landon Wilcox (scholarship recipient), Shelly Wardell (Sr. Staff Assistant to the Dean of Engineering), Suzanne Sumison (USU Career Coach for the College of Engineering), Sophie Bassett (USU EmployeeRelations Specialist), Autumn Williams (Recruiter for Union Wireless), Amber Kerr (Applications Supervisor for Union Wireless), Mike Ostrander (Network Operations Manager for Union Wireless) and Frank Draney (Human Resources Director for Union Wireless).

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  Aggies in the Arctic: USU Environmental Engineers Decode Icy Watersheds | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – When it comes right down to it, scientists and environmental engineers will tell you that nearly every ecosystem on Earth is driven by one simple thing: temperature.

  Oceans, rivers, forests and deserts are a product of the chemical and biological processes that depend on a predictable mix of hot and cold. Even in the Arctic, where shallow soils are frozen most of the year, tiny variations in temperature can impact entire regions.

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  Combining Careers in Engineering | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – Nephi Jones has spent the last decade developing a more efficient bioreactor for the life sciences industry. The big stainless steel vessels dot the laboratory space where he works at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Logan. The machines generate the basic ingredients for therapeutic drugs that combat eye disease, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer and are constantly evolving to produce better results.

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  CS Alum Turned Google Engineer Pays It Forward | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – Just one year after graduating from USU with a master’s degree in computer science, Subash Gutala donated funding for a scholarship that would give future students the same quality experiences he had.

  The computer science alumnus came to Logan from a small town near Hyderabad, India and instantly connected with new friends, colleagues and the faculty and staff of the Computer Science Department.

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  ‘Engineering State’ Summer Camp Turns 25 | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – In 1990, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering created an event that introduced young people to the basics of engineering. A year later, the College of Engineering adopted the program and added learning activities that represented its other departments for a weeklong summer camp for 16 and 17 year olds. The organizers didn’t know it at the time, but they had created a longstanding USU Engineering tradition.

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  From College Freshman to University Professor | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – Meet Dr. Munro. You’ve probably seen him around campus or walked past the lab where he spent countless late nights as a graduate student. Those who know Troy Munro say he’s got a rock-solid positive attitude and a humble work ethic that has taken him further than many his age.

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  How a Professor Changed the Course of My Life | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – At the end of his junior year fluid mechanics course, Deryl Snyder raised his hand and told the professor he wanted to learn more. The mechanical engineering major had mastered the basics, but only felt comfortable solving very simple fluid dynamics problems.

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  I'm Not What You Think I Am | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct 15, 2016 – Stacie Gregory was always a good student. Math and science came easy to the Indianapolis, Ind., native who went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics from Spelman College and a master’s in material science and engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

  She even kept up with a strenuous workload as a PhD student at North Carolina State University in the late 1990s. But despite meeting academic goals, Gregory felt a growing burden that held her back and ultimately led her to drop out of the program. What happened? She asked herself in the years that followed.

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  In Need of a Lift: Students Design Innovative Patient Lift System | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – Senior design students in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department have created another assistive technology device that may lead to improvements in patient care and mobility.

  The electric patient lift system is designed to transfer an individual from a chair or bed to another location. The 'Mobilift' system is a combination of an existing, commercially available hydraulic patient lift coupled with a custom motorized base. The machine can support a maximum of 300 pounds and can be maneuvered manually or with the motorized wheels using a handheld remote.

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  'My Entire Life Has Been Influenced by the Space Industry’ | College of Engineering

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  Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct. 15, 2016 – Jessica Gregory remembers looking up on her way to elementary school and seeing rockets blaze into the morning skies. She was raised near Santa Maria, Calif., in the 1980s at a time when rocket launches from nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base were a common sight.

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  Aqueous Processing of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Advanced Biofuels | Biological Engineering

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  An important current focus of research in biology, chemistry, engineering, agriculture, and environmental sciences is the development of clean technologies that utilize cellulosic biomass as a renewable resource to the largest extent possible in a biorefinery setting to produce sustainable liquid transportation fuels and chemicals. Of all sustainable resources, only biomass can be transformed into organic fuels and chemicals that can integrate well into our current transportation infrastructure with the inherent convenience, cost, and efficiency advantages of current fuels. Cellulosic biomass can be converted to fuels and chemicals through aqueous-phase processes involving carbohydrates-derived and lignin-derived reactive intermediates deconstructed from these structural components within biomass. The key challenge is to achieve high yields of these reactive intermediates for biological and/or catalytically upgrading into fuels or chemicals at low cost.

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  Detection of Fungal Infections Using SERS | Biological Engineering

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  Climate change, mass production of feedstocks, improved survival rates for patient with serious autoimmune diseases and cancers have increases the risk of fungus-caused infections in geographic areas previously thought safe. Most serious, are aggressive fungal infections that create difficult to treat pneumonias that lead to organ failure and death. Immune-compromised individuals need to initiate medication treatment as early as possible to have a chance of survival. Normally healthy individual may spread the infection unknowingly, since in the early stages their symptoms may appear to be no more than a common cold. With the change in climate, atypical fungal species will become prevalent, some of which respond weakly to existing drugs, so earlier interventions are likewise important.

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  A Career in Innovation | College of Engineering

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  Oct. 10, 2016 – If you want to see Bruce Brothersen’s portfolio, just look up. His life’s work is built into the structures that make up our communities, spanning the schools, office buildings and aircraft hangars that keep the economy ticking.

  The Layton, Utah, native came to USU for an undergraduate degree in the 1980s and quickly decided that engineering was a good fit.

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  A Design Tool for Everyone: USU Aerospace Engineer Creates Free 3-D Aircraft Design Software | College of Engineering

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  News Release – LOGAN, UTAH, Oct. 6, 2016 – As interest in small autonomous aerial vehicles and their applications continues to expand, a Utah State University aerospace engineer is offering the public a free software tool that could revolutionize the drone industry.

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  BD Medical Tour | Biological Engineering

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  On October 6, 2016, 19 students, mostly from the Biological Engineering Department, traveled to Sandy, UT to tour BD Medical. Students were able to experience a medical manufacturing company first hand. They were able to see the various steps that go into the research, development, production, and quality control when producing and streamlining a product. The tour featured questions and answers about what BD Medical does, career and internship opportunities, and a walk-through of the manufacturing facility.

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  HackUSU Intercollegiate Hackathon Returns to Utah State University | College of Engineering

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  News Release – LOGAN, UTAH, Oct. 3, 2016 – The state’s biggest hackathon returns Oct. 7-8 to Utah State University. Participants will spend 36 hours creating software and hardware applications, learning new technologies and networking with recruiters from Utah companies.

  About 400 students from USU, University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Weber State University and Dixie State University are expected to attend. The intercollegiate event is open to any college student interested in computer science, programming and technology.

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  Angela Akude's Thesis Defense | Biological Engineering

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  The Biological Engineering Department is pleased to annouce that Angela Akude will be presenting her thesis defense on Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 9 am in the BENG Conference Room (ENGR 402C).