CoE News and Events
“A Great Year Ahead”: UM’s Rise in the US News & World Report Rankings
“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
Miami Engineer Receives Print Association of Florida Award
The University of Miami (UM) College of Engineering newsletter, Miami Engineer, received a Judges Award for the Fall 2010 issue that featured a silhouette photograph of the distinguished members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) standing shoulder-to-shoulder across its cover.
The Judges Award was announced at the 24th annual Florida Print Awards, the printing industry’s largest and most prestigious statewide graphic arts competition. The Printing Association of Florida (PAF) presented the awards to elite Florida-based printing, graphic arts companies and schools during a banquet on August 5, 2011 at the Loews Royal Pacific at Universal Orlando....more
Reception Welcomes the Class of 2015
Incoming biomedical engineering students with UM Board of Trustees member Dr. Edward Dauer, B.S.E.E. ’72, M.D. ’75, M.S.B.E. ’01, research associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering with a joint appointment as a Research Associate Professor of Radiology and Family Medicine.
On Tuesday, August 2nd, the College of Engineering Alumni Association (CoEAA) hosted its 2nd Annual Freshmen Welcome Reception modeled after the national Summer Send-off Program, which is a university tradition that involves alumni and faculty; they host receptions for incoming freshmen and transfer students during the summer, before the academic year, and its rigors, get under way.
With more than 125 guests, including the ultimate ‘Cane—Sebastian—who led students in their very first ‘Canes cheer, Dean James M. Tien, faculty, staff and alumni of the college welcomed current and future students, as well as UM Board of Trustees member Dr. Edward Dauer, B.S.E.E. ’72, M.D. ’75, M.S.B.E. ’01, research associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering with a joint appointment as a Research Associate Professor of Radiology and Family Medicine. It should be noted that Dr. Dauer and his wife, Joanne, have hosted their own Summer Send Off events at their home in Los Angeles. Also in attendance, Christian Garcia, Director of UM’s Toppel Career Center, and General Electric executives, Daniel Sosa, Product Manager, Latin America; Javier Lopez, Product GM for Latin American, and Art Nieves, VP GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services. UM is a formally designated GE Executive School, one of only 40 in the US....more
Space Vehicles: The Next Generation
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
Emergent Leader and Educator
Senior in electrical engineering, Stephanie Gillespie also plays in UM’s Band of the Hour
Profiled in the Fall 2010 issue of Miami Engineer, senior in electrical engineering Stephanie Gillespie spent her summer performing research at the University of Michigan’s computer vision lab. Her project, “Visual Sonification for Visually-Impaired Users,” converts images to sound waves, to create a new universal language. After training on the system, visually impaired or blind users can listen to the sound waves through headphones and a smartphone in order to better image and understand their surroundings....more
UM ‘Triple Threat’ Prevails in “Battle of the Brains” World Finals
From left to right: Andy Mok, Juan Bustos, Frank Rodriguez
After winning the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Southeast USA Regional Programming Contest on November 6, 2010, a trio of University of Miami undergraduate students competed in the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), otherwise known as the “Battle of the Brains.” The UM College of Engineering team came in 69th from the 105 universities that competed in the ACM/ICPC finals; 6th highest among US universities.
In terms of overall numbers, the competition began with 10,328 teams from 2,670 international universities, narrowing down to the 105 that made it to the finals. In the end, the CoE team was defeated only by five US teams: 2nd place: Michigan (Ann Arbor), 22nd: Carnegie Mellon, 29th: MIT, 46th: Princeton, and 61st: California State (Chico)....more
Collaborative Research and Exchange Forum (CREF): Environmental Sensing
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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