President Barak Obama, visiting the University of Miami to deliver a policy statement on energy, preceded his speech with a tour of the University of Miami Industrial Assessment Center in the College of Engineering.
Dr. Shihab Asfour, director of the Center, and his students demonstrated for the President various assessment procedures geared to reducing companies’ energy consumption and increasing efficiency. According to President Obama the work done in the Center “couldn’t be more important. Figuring out how our buildings can waste less energy is one of the fastest, easiest ways to reduce our dependence on oil and save a lot of money in the process.” ...more
The latest in computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines, capable of 5-axis milling and turning
The University of Miami College Of Engineering is pleased to announce the establishment of a professionally staffed, state-of-the-art Prototyping Facility, available for use both within UM and with outside customers.
The 3000 square feet, air-conditioned facility is equipped to handle the most complex prototyping task (large or small)....more
“It’s going to be a great year,” exclaimed University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala to the faculty and staff of the College of Engineering during their first meeting of the academic year. Just one day before the September 13 release of the 2012 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” issue, Shalala commended the College of Engineering for its prominent role in significantly contributing to UM’s meteoric rise in rankings to number 38 – up from 47 last year, an incredible nine-point rise. UM remains the highest ranked school in the state of Florida....more
Juan (BSBME) is a 2012 Barry M Goldwater Scholarship winner, double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and English. His career goal is to conduct stem cell and tissue engineering research for regenerative medicine but he would also like to teach at the university level. Just recently he learned that his first authored paper will be published : “The effect of nicotine on the mechanical properties of mesenchymal stem cells” will be in the next issue of Cell Health and Cytoskeleton. He has also worked in the Dr. Jeffrey Karp Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and is a recipient of an Isaac B. Singer Scholarship; he is a member of the Foote Fellows Program and member of the UM , Tau Beta Pi, and Alpha Eta Mu Honor Societies. In addition to his academic accomplishments, Juan has also found time to write three, full -length novels and serve as an instructor in Salsa Craze at UM
Dr. Qingda Yang, researcher of composite materials for hypersonic space vehicles, and assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
The final flight of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis, in service since 1985, marked the end of the 30-year Shuttle program. First developed in the 1970s and launched in 1981, NASA’s fleet of space shuttles provided the nation with almost uninterrupted travel to space, but left Americans wondering what comes next. For the time being, the future of space exploration may shift to the private sector, though NASA’s long term plans are to develop rockets and vehicles capable of visiting Mars or an asteroid.
Dr. Qingda Yang, College of Engineering researcher and assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is already developing composite materials for the next generation of space vehicles, vehicles capable of sustaining hypersonic speeds, 5-15 times the speed of sound....more
The Collaborative Research and Exchange Forum (CREF), a venue initiated by the College of Engineering (CoE) when Dean James M. Tien became dean in 2007, includes faculty presentations, panel discussions, followed by open “table brainstorming” that encourages growing research between investigators in engineering and the applied sciences. In an ongoing effort to enhance collaborative research between the faculty of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) and the College of Engineering, February 18, 2011, the fourth CoE CREF took place at the RSMAS campus. Previous CoE CREFs involved CoE faculty and Miller School of Medicine faculty.
Co-organized by Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, associate dean for research and professor at the College of Engineering, and Dr. Robert K. Cowen associate dean for research for RSMAS, and moderated by Richard Bookman, Ph.D., executive dean for research and research training, the event featured presentations by faculty from both schools centered on “Environmental Sensing.”
With more than 40 researchers participating, including several from the Center for Computational Science (CCS), the half-day meeting explored the intersections between methods and devices that monitor and perform sensing for environmental applications. For example, the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) detected in the Earth’s atmosphere are comprised of the same chemicals as those detected in the breath of patients who suffer from lung cancer, a relationship that researchers can more effectively diagnose the disease....more
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