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Success in Engineering
L.C. Smith Associate Dean Julie Hasenwinkel and her colleagues are putting strategies in place to help keep students engaged and strengthen retention rates beginning this fall. Their efforts got a recent boost.
Gina Lee-Glauser Named Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Gina Lee-Glauser, vice president for research at Syracuse University and research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The…
Bioengineering Fellow’s Project Is Icing on the Cake
Ariel Ash-Shakoor, a first-year Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellow in bioengineering, is participating in the 2013 National IGERT Video and Poster Competition with her project, “Icing on the Cake: Coating Smart Polymers to Control Cell Interactions.” Outcome…
LCS Junior Ryan Milcarek Awarded Astronaut Scholarship
A mission trip to the western United States a few years ago changed Ryan Milcarek’s life. After finishing his freshman year at Syracuse University, Milcarek, an industrial design major from Warsaw, N.Y., decided to take a break from college for…
Connective Corridor Earns Platinum Award from ACEC
The Connective Corridor has been awarded the American Council of Engineering Companies Platinum Award for Transportation projects—another recognition of the collective efforts of the City of Syracuse, Onondaga County, Syracuse University and Connective Corridor design team Barton & Loguidice (B&L)….
Designing the Street Smart Phone
Meet the “smarter” New York City payphone. The push buttons and coin slot of the past are inevitably replaced with a touch screen and card swipe, plus camera, solar panels and capabilities for emergency alerts and wayfinding.
PRIDE Coordinates Playful Challenges for National Engineers Week
Programs Rooted in Developing Excellence (PRIDE) in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) coordinates an annual celebration of National Engineers Week, which brings the members of the college together and introduces the campus community to the field…
Video: Final project for engineering students means breaking bridges
Professor Sam Clemence is putting plenty of faith in his students. As part of the final project for his ECS 101 class, Clemence walks, very slowly, on top of their final projects. He hopes they don’t break. That’s because these…
From atoms to satellites
Alumnus Alfred U. Mac Rae receives Distinguished Alumni Award While those who attended SU during the late 1950s may not have known his name, many recall the Ghost of Archbold Stadium, a.k.a. Alfred U. Mac Rae ’54, G’57, Ph.D. ’60….
Engineers study how contaminated soil can be drained, utilized
LCS research published in Geosynthetics International Each year, 400 million cubic yards of soil are dredged from water bodies in the United States alone. Much of this byproduct is contaminated, deemed unusable and put into landfills. Mahmoud M. Khachan, Shobha…