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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).

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  Cynthia Hanson's Proposal Defense | Biological Engineering

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  The Biological EngineeringDepartment is pleased to announce that Cindy Hanson will be presenting her proposal defense onMonday, October 3, 2016 at 1:30 pm in ENGR 326

  Proposal title: The use of microfluidics and dielectrophoresis for separation, concentration, and identification of bacteria

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  Do Gender Affect Pollution? | Civil and Environmental Engineering

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  Randy Martin and Abed Khader, visiting from Palestine, tested vehicle emmissions using various drivers in same car and same route.

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  UPEL Students and Faculty Present at ECCE 2016 | Utah State University Power Electronics Lab

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  UPEL students, Hongjie Wang, M. Muneeb Ur Rehman and Reza Tavakoli, presented their research papers at the annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE 2016) sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and the IEEE Industrial Application Society (IAS). The conference was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this year and was well attended by engineers, researchers, students, and professionals from industry and academic world.

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  UPEL Students Present Their Research Work at IEEE COMPEL 2016 in Trondheim, Norway | Utah State University Power Electronics Lab

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  UPEL students, M. Muneeb Ur Rehman, Hongjie Wang, and Tarak Saha, presented their research papers at the17th annual IEEE conference for Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL 2016) sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS). The conference was held in Trondheim, Norway this year and was well attended by engineers, researchers, students, and professionals from industry and academic world.

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  New Electrified Transportation Research Center Opens at USU | College of Engineering

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  News Release – LOGAN, UTAH, Sept. 22, 2016 – A first-of-its-kind transportation research center is opening its doors for business on the Utah State University campus. SELECT, the Sustainable Electrified Transportation Center, brings electrified transportation industry members and leading engineering researchers together to develop holistic solutions to global electrified transportation.

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  A Clear Solution: Electrical Engineering Researcher Prints Transparent Antenna onto Glass | College of Engineering

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  News Release – LOGAN, UTAH, Sept. 20, 2016 – A researcher at Utah State University is one step closer to solving a complex problem that has puzzled the space industry for decades: How do you equip space satellites with high-gain antennas without the added weight and mechanical complexity of a bulky dish?

  Reyhan Baktur, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at USU, has developed an innovative solution. She demonstrated how a high-gain antenna can be printed directly onto a satellite’s solar panel. Using a materials printer and conductive ink, she and her team can print a variety of antenna onto virtually any surface including glass solar panels that power communication and small research satellites, known as CubeSats.

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  USU Engineering Students Take 2nd Place in Autonomous Vehicle Race | College of Engineering

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  Sept. 20, 2016 – A student team from Utah State University’s College of Engineering brought home a second place prize from the national Autonomous Vehicle Competition held Sept. 17 in Niwot, Colo.

  The USU AVC team, a group organized by the IEEE student branch, took second place in their weight category and sixth place overall. The AVC is an annual event hosted by Sparkfun that brings engineers and makers together in a competition to build the best vehicle capable of navigating an obstacle course autonomously with no human intervention.

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  DoD Awards USU Computer Science Faculty for Supporting Student Airman | College of Engineering

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  News Release – LOGAN, UTAH, Sept. 9, 2016 – The Defense Department’s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) program on Friday recognized a Utah State University faculty member for his support of a student who serves in the Utah Air National Guard.

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  A New Tool for Wetland Management | College of Engineering

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  News Release – Sept. 1, 2016 – In arid Utah, marshy wetlands — with their aquatic life and migratory birds — are among the most cherished natural resources in the state.

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  University of Wisconsin-Madison Honors USU Engineering Professor | College of Engineering

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  NEWS RELEASE – Aug 26, 2016 – A Utah State University associate professor of electrical and computer engineering has been named among the most influential alumni to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.