College of Engineering - Temple University

Thursday, November 5, 2009

The college is pleased to announce that Mr. Jaber Al-Bihani competed for and won the prestigious Undergraduate Research Incentive Fund from the Provost Office. His adviser is Dr. Naji Khoury. The Grant provides him with $1500 to conduct the research.

The title of the project is: "Recycled Plastic Bottles for Green Porous Sidewalks and Pavements"

Monday, November 2, 2009

The College congratulates two teams from the Civil Engineering department for winning the CARAS awards (Creative Arts, Research, and Scholarship) for their projects.
Title of Project: Constructed Wetland for Nutrient Runoff Control
CARAS Grant Amount: $3,000
Design Team: CE-4
Team Members: Nicole Devine (Principal Investigator), Patrick Kellar, Shaun Osting, Sean Flanagan
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rob Ryan

Stormwater Management Practices at Temple University Main Campus
CARAS Grant Amount: $2984.29
Team Members: Sachin Pandey (Principal Investigator), Jesse Minsky, Rupal Patel, James Pollum
Faculty Advisor(s): Dr. Boufadel, Dr. Shah, and Dr. Khoury
Industrial Advisor: Domenic Rocco, PA Department of Environmental Protection

The CARAS award is highly competitive as the applicants are from throughout the University.

Thursday, October 16, 2009

Dr. Zdenka Delalic, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the 2009 IMAPS Outstanding Educator by the IMAPS International Symposium. The award will be presented on November 3, 2009 at the conference in San Jose, California. An announcement of the award will be published in the magazine Advancing Micro.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Dr. Dmitri Vainchtein is the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project titled "Collaborative Research: Long Term Chaotic Transport in Volume-Preserving Flows."The primary objective of the project is to construct a general theory of long-time resonance-driven chaotic transport in near-integrable autonomous and non-autonomous volume-preserving flows. Such investigations will have real-world applications in the fields of microfluidcs, which promises major advances in drug discovery, medical diagnostics and national security. Dr. Vainchtein is collaborating on this project with faculty from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Monday, August 17, 2009

A group of high school students who spent their summer working with the College of Engineering have really made a splash! The Civil and Environmental team members got two awards: “Best Research Assistant" and "Best Portfolio Training Award." This team was visited on numerous occasions by the Department of Labor and the Philadelphia Youth Network, who were very impressed with the level of work that the students conducted. Bilal Khan and Youness Sharifi, graduate students with Dr. Boufadel, supervised the students. The program coordinator, Dr. Michelle Masucci, informed Dr. Boufadel that the funding agencies were extremely impressed with the team that worked with his Environmental Engineering students. You can read the students' blog here: http://www.templeengineer.blogspot.com/

Monday, July 13, 2009

The College expands into the Middle East with students from Ajman University of Science & Technology in the United Arab Emirates.

New Temple Blog about Science, Health and Technology - Temple Cutting Edge. Click here to see all of the stories in the Engineering category.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Gangadhar Andaluri, an environmental engineering doctoral student in the College of Engineering, received the first place PhD research award plus the overall research award in all student categories at PennTec 2009, the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Water Environment Association (PWEA) held at the Lancaster Host Hotel & Conference Center, June 7th – 10th, 2009. His award was unanimously selected by the PWEA committee. The award includes an engraved plaque, a cash prize of $250, and $1200 to travel to WEFTEC national conference, October 10th – 14th. He will be representing the PWEA chapter at WEFTEC 2009. This is the first PWEA Supported trip to WEFTEC.

The research session was devoted to showcase ongoing research activities in the field of wastewater, water quality and environmental management relevant to Pennsylvania. There were student presentations from Drexel, Villanova, Penn State, Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon, Maryland and some others. He was judged on research type (relevance to issues related to wastewater treatment, water quality and environmental management in Pennsylvania), poster, podium presentation, and written paper.

Andaluri’s paper was titled “Ultrasound assisted degradation of pharmaceutically active compounds: effect of reactor design variables”. He was joined by his research advisor Dr. Rominder Suri at the Awards Ceremony. According to Dr. Suri, “Andaluri’s research presentation highlighted the state-of-the-art research into the use of ultrasound as an advanced treatment process for destruction of emerging contaminants in water and wastewater. He has been working on further developing the reactors for this process, and an application of this technology at an industrial site is currently being designed”.

Monday, June 1, 2009

New grads- looking for a job? Check out this posting: NASA recruiting recent grads.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

The 3rd annual IEEE barbecue is Friday, 5/8/09 from 1:00-6:00 PM in Fairmount Park behind the Art Museum. The exact location is Poplar and Sedgley Drive. There will be FREE FOOD and ACTIVITIES! This is a great chance to hang out with your fellow classmates and alumni. All are welcome!

If you need a ride to the event, please come to the IEEE office on the 7th floor or call Jacqueline Speck at 267-253-1365.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

"Academic All-Stars
The collegians who excel as student and athletes are selected by the Philadelphia Area Sports Information Directors Association.

Performer of the Year
Temple University senior gymnast Jason Russo won the vault with a career-best score of 15.200 against William & Mary this season. Against Air Force, Russo took second in the all-around by posting a score of 78.150. He had a solid meet against Navy by claiming second on the vault (15.050), third on the parallel bars (13.650), and fourth in the all-around (80.150). Russo is a civil engineering major with a 3.75 cumulative grade point average. "

Wednesday, April 23, 2009

Congratulations to Peter Strahs, a Mechanical Engineering student, for receiving the Diamond Award. The Diamond Award is given each year to juniors and seniors who exhibit academic excellence, service to the community, leadership, and who have an impact on the local, national, or global community.

The College would like to extend our congratulations to Kendrick Davis, a Mechanical Engineering student, who will be representing the university as the student speaker for the University ceremony. Kendrick has been very active in the Temple community as a Resident Assistant, a Teaching Assistant, a Diamond Scholar Research Award Recipient, Vice-President of the National Society of Black engineers, a member of the Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity, and a Diamond Award Winner. Kendrick also won 1st place in the 2008 College of Engineering Poster Competition.

The College also congratulates Shane Horan, who was chosen as the student speaker for the College graduation ceremony. Shane is a Mechanical Engineering student who is a member of the Mechanical Engineering Honors Society, the president of Pi Tau Sigma Honor society, a frequent Dean’s List scholar, and a research assistant for the Bioengineering Laboratory. Shane was also the winner of the Vassallo Award.

Congratulations to both of our speakers!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The IEEE Student Activity Conference (SAC) was held at Youngstown University at Youngstown, Ohio, April 18. 170 students from 22 universities in the Middle Atlantic region participated at the conference. The winners are:

Ethics Competition
First Place ($800)
Bill Moser and Nabeel Adeel
2. Micromouse Competition
First Place ($500)
Sudarshan Kandi and Joe Gro (Thanks for Dr. Helferty's robot)
3. Project Showcase Competition
Second Place ($500)
Michael Korostelev and Zhou Li

Congratulations to the winners and all participants. Also thanks to Dr. Bai for guiding the IEEE students for a job well done. -Saroj Biswas

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

College of Engineering Students to present Senior Projects

All College of Engineering students participate in three semester experience to demonstrate their academic studies. The experience is known as Senior Design and consists of a poster presentation followed by a formal presentation of work. All of the students participate in a team environment to complete this work.

Senior Design Poster Presentation will be held on Thursday April 16, 2009 Senior Design Formal Presentations will be held on Thursday April 23, 2009

All events will take place in the College of Engineering building.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Congratulations to Jordan Weaver, an undergraduate ME student, and his advisor, Dr. Pillapakkam, for receiving early acceptance for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) in the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory/NIST Center for Neutron Research (MSEL/NCNR) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. The COE application for this program was prepared and submitted by Dr. Pillapakkam.

Monday, February 22, 2009

On February 19, Dr. Michel Boufadel spoke on the Effects and Recovery of Potential Oil Spills in the Delaware River at Temple University. Oil spills could cause major devastation to the environment due to their potential large volumes. Dr Boufadel considered various scenarios of oil spills and the best response strategies, with an emphasis on bioremediation. Historic spills such as the Exxon Valdez and Athos oil spills were also discussed.
More information about the subject here:
Effects/Recovery of Potential Oil Spills in the Delaware River

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

From the Temple News:

An Owl-standing family tradition

February 3, 2009 by Marilyn DAngelo

Throughout Temple’s 125-year span of academic excellence and achievements, there have been 260,000 alumni. Though professors have come and gone, and students have graduated, certain legacies continue to thrive. The family tradition at Temple runs deep, especially for the Hennessys.

Since 1942, there are 15 Hennessy descendants who have graduated or are currently attending the university. The matriarch of this genealogic cluster is Mary-Jane Carson Hennessy, who attended Temple in 1942.

William Dougherty, a music composition major, chats with cousins Colleen Sullivan, a biology major and Peter Strahs, a mechanical engineering major. The three juniors are part of the Hennessy family legacy at Temple (Julia Wilkinson/TTN).

Her seven daughters, Kathleen, Rosemary, Christine, Claire, Patricia, Anne and Barbara, graduated from various schools and colleges within the university.

Kathleen, Claire and Anne married men who graduated from Temple. Claire’s daughter graduated in 2005. Kathleen, Anne and Patricia have children who are currently enrolled — Colleen, William and Peter, respectively, planning to graduate in 2010.

“They’re a trio, those three,” Hennessy said about her grandchildren. “I went to Temple back in the dark ages, ‘42 to‘44. It was very different from what it is today. We wore moccasins, saddle shoes and trench coats. There were no boys on the campus because they were all in the service. It was wartime.”

Hennessy was given a full scholarship of $800 and worked hard during her time at Temple.

“[Tuition] was only $200 a year. I used to carry a brown bag to the cafeteria. I couldn’t afford lunch. My mother gave me $2 for a weekly bus pass,” she said. “Scholarship kids were required to work for work-study. I worked in the president’s office and marking papers in a psychology office.”

When it came time for her daughters to attend, Hennessy was more than willing to push them toward Temple.

“I really loved Conwell’s education for kids that couldn’t really afford it, so I advised them to do it,” she said. “They all got good degrees and good educations.”

Kathleen Hennessy Sullivan fondly remembers her days at Temple. Like many Temple students, she was a commuter. “I had quite a travel to go to school and then go to work,” she said.

Sullivan said the university has undergone many changes since she’s attended.

“Curtis [Hall] is gone now, security is better. I’m delighted to see all the beautiful things that have happened to Temple since I left. It’s such a different place now.”

When it was time for her daughter, Colleen Sullivan, to choose a school, she did not pressure her.

“I wanted the choice to be hers,” Sullivan said. “I told my daughter, ‘This is a place where there are acres of diamonds, you just have to go digging.’”

Colleen felt no pressure from Mom.

“I ended up choosing Temple just because it was close to home, and coming here during visits and stuff, I thought that I could really see myself here,” the junior biology major said.

Colleen’s experience at Temple has been filled with activities. She is a member of Delta Zeta sorority, a resident assistant and part of the Honors Program.

The seven Hennessy sisters — Kathleen, Rosemary, Christine, Claire, Patricia, Anne and Barbara — gather for a family portrait (Courtesy Hennessy family).

“I really do enjoy going to a school with over 25,000 students,” she said. “I like the diversity, and I’ve really met people here that I’m great friends with who are extremely different than I am. If you have a personality where you’re a go-getter and you go after what you want and make the most of your experience, it’s a plus. I know I’ll graduate extremely happy that I came to Temple.”

Colleen’s cousin, William Dougherty, is a junior music major. Like Colleen, he too is a resident assistant who helps new students learn the ropes.

“I’m kind of like their door to the university,” Dougherty said. “If they have any questions about anything, I’m their liaison. I’m very connected to campus events.”

Colleen’s and Dougherty’s third cousin, Peter Strahs, is a junior mechanical engineering major and president of the Ultimate Frisbee Club.

“Right now, I’m going for a five-year master’s, and when I get out, I’ll want to work in green energy technology. [I’m] currently doing research on fuel cells, so when I get out, I’ll have a job, hopefully,” Strahs said.

The Temple experience has been full for this third generation bloodline, and they are all making the most of their time on campus.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Renovations at the College
2008: A Look Back and a Look Forward

Monday, October 27

Dr. Rominder Suri, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded a grant for $1.6 million from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to establish the Pennsylvania Environmental Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry (PEPTI).

The PEPTI research work is designed to sustain and advance the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry. PEPTI will address the needs of pharmaceutical companies, equipment manufacturers, and engineering design companies that work with the industry in an effort reduce environmental impacts of its operations. Dean Keya Sadeghipour noted “This is a further step in expanding the research portfolio of the College of Engineering. We congratulate Dr. Suri and look forward to support of this research.”

College News:

Monday, November 17, 2008

Students Score at the 41st IMAPS Conference (pdf)

Friday, November 7, 2008

Dr. Michel Boufadel and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering enters five-year agreement with pennDOT

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Dr. Yantorno Awarded Research Grant by U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Undergraduate Summer Research Program Student Selections Announced

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

NSF Highlights Dr. Brian Butz's Project INVISSIBLE

Tuesday, April 8, 2008