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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…
Let it rain: Monitoring effectiveness of downtown green roof
Civil engineering professor Cliff Davidson had a breathtaking view of the City of Syracuse from a rooftop garden Thursday. But it’s the possibilities of that prime location that made the experience memorable.
L.C. Smith College awards Faculty Excellence Awards to catalog green infrastructure in Syracuse, design hands-on fuel cell lab
The recipients of the 2012 L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Excellence Awards are professors David Chandler (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Jeongmin Ahn (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Their ideas were selected as…
SU students take second place in robotic lawnmower competition
A team of four Syracuse University students took second place in the static competition at the ninth annual ION Robotic Lawnmower Competition in Beavercreek, Ohio. The SU team spent $37,000 less on its design than the winning team. Andrew Cash,…
Chief scientist for NASA to give convocation address for L.C. Smith
NASA’s chief scientist, Waleed Abdalati ’86, will deliver the 2012 address to bachelor’s degree candidates of Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at the college’s convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 12, at 9 a.m. in Manley…
Varshney to receive IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award for pioneering work in wireless technology
Professor Pramod K. Varshney in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, an engineer whose pioneering and continuing contributions to distributed detection techniques and data fusion methods have fueled the success of wireless sensor networks benefiting aerospace, defense…
Paving the way: Raytheon’s Jennifer Zhao ’09 to speak
Career Services, within the Division of Student Affairs, and the Office of Alumni Relations are bringing Jennifer Zhao ‘09, systems engineer for Raytheon Co., to campus on Monday, April 23, as part of the Alumni Speaker Series. Zhao’s visit coincides…
Research by LCS professor expected to help utility companies predict service life of pipeline infrastructure
Regression models presented in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Journal of Infrastructure Systems by researchers at Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are expected to help utility companies predict the service life of wastewater pipeline…