Bayly, team get $2.25 million grant to study brain mechanics
WUSTL engineering researchers have received a five-year, $2.25 million grant to better understand traumatic brain injuries in efforts to improve methods for prevention and treatment.
Engineers Week to feature Edward Jung and Mythbusters
Engineers Week 2013 is packed with a variety of events celebrating engineers all week long. The
week, founded by the National Engineers Week Foundation, is designed to
increase the visibility of the School of Engineering & Applied
Science at the university, collaborate between various engineering
groups and promote the interaction among students, alumni, faculty,
staff and engineering professionals.
New mobile app helps students track campus shuttle
An undergraduate student at WUSTL helped create and launch a mobile app that helps students track the campus circulator shuttle. It’s called the “WUSTL Circulator,” and on its first day, it had up to four times as many downloads as typical new university apps.
Building engineers of the future
Every Tuesday afternoon, an undergraduate from WUSTL’s School of Engineering & Applied Science heads back to middle school. Nick
Okafor leads the after-school Young Engineers Club at Brittany Woods
Middle School in University City. N’Desha Scott, a sophomore majoring in
biomedical engineering, started the club last fall as a way to reach
out to middle school students from groups traditionally underrepresented
in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
So BRIGHT, you need to wear shades
Nanostructures called BRIGHTs seek out biomarkers on cells and then beam brightly to reveal their locations. In the tiny gap between the gold skin and the gold core of the nanoparticle, there is an electromagnetic hot spot that lights up the reporter molecules trapped there.
BRIGHTs, which shine about 1.7 x 1011 more brightly than isolated Raman reporters, are intended for use in noninvasive bioimaging.
A complex logic circuit made from bacterial genes
Engineer Tae Seok Moon has made the most complex logic circuit ever assembled in a single bacterium. The logic circuit, in which genes and the molecules that turn the genes on or off function as logic gates, the simple devices that form the basis for electronic circuits, is one step in an effort to make programmable bacteria that can make biofuels, degrade pollutants, or attack cancer or infections.
WUSTL students return from studying biofuels in Brazil
This summer, WUSTL students participating in the International Experience in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering went to Brazil to study its booming biofuel industry. Applications now are being accepted for next year’s trip to Australia. The topics to be studied are coal, coal-seam gas, wastewater treatment, biofuels and the geothermal industry.
Center for Biological Systems Engineering kicks off with symposium
Researchers from the new interdisciplinary Center for Biological Systems Engineering at Washington University will host its inaugural symposium, sponsored by Lockheed Martin, from 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, in Whitaker Hall, Room 100. Rohit V. Pappu, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering, directs the new center. Lockheed Martin is sponsoring the symposium.
Agrawal wins NSF CAREER award
Kunal Agrawal, PhD, assistant professor of computer
science & engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied
Science at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a prestigious
Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National
Science Foundation. The goal of Agrawal’s project, titled “Provably Good
Concurrency Platforms for Streaming Applications,” is to design
platforms that will allow programmers to easily write correct and
efficient high-throughput parallel programs.
New master’s dual-degree in engineering and business announced
The Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering and the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis have announced a new dual-degree program that combines a master’s degree in engineering and a master’s of business administration. Students can earn an M.Eng and MBA degree in two-and-a-half years with a focus on energy, the environment and corporate sustainability.