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Senior Design Team Develops Personalized Breast Self-Exam Virtual Reality Training Simulator

A haptic glove uses a sophisticated combination of microprocessors, balloons, and air pumps to exert force onto the fingertips, simulating the feeling of a breast exam.

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CoE Group Shares Fuel Cell Aviation Research, Networks at DOE Energy Summit

A UConn team joined energy scientists, technologists, engineers, and industry leaders at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Innovation Summit to collaborate on the future of energy innovation

The sky reflected on the back of the Castleman Building.

Four College of Engineering Faculty Elected to CASE

Professors Khan, Zhao, Zheng, and Zhou are among 20 faculty from the College of Engineering who are members of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

Researchers work in a village in Peru.

NSF Project Evaluates Students’ Attitudes Toward Human Rights in Engineering 

Faculty from engineering, human rights, and education are integrating human rights into the engineering curricula to foster a more socially aware generation of engineers

Cato T. Laurencin

Professor Cato Laurencin Recipient of 2025 Terasaki Innovation Award

The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of biomedical innovation through research, education, industry, translation, or clinical practice

Anna Tarakanova, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, works with graduate student Mohammad Madani on a computer model inside the Pratt & Whitney Engineering Building. Tarakanova is the recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 2024 Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty. (Christopher LaRosa/UConn Photo)

Tarakanova Honored with Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty

The award recognizes early-career researchers who’ve made impactful contributions to the field of mechanics and mechanics of materials

Ornella Tempo '16 in the lab at the Institute for Material Science with Luyi Sun, associate professor of bimolecular engineering on April 25, 2016.

UConn Engineering Boasts 9 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows

Fellows demonstrate 'a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life'

Wind farm at sea

Junbo Zhao to Design Safe Offshore Energy Production Processes as Early-Career Research Fellow of the National Academies

The Early-Career Research Fellowships program supports emerging scientific leaders who strive to advance the safety of offshore energy systems and improve the well-being of coastal communities and ecosystems

Students in a classroom.

College of Engineering Offers New Ph.D. Program in Engineering Education

The interdisciplinary program explores connections between engineering and the social sciences and helps students think expansively about learning to inform their work as scholars and teachers

Dan Burkey

UConn Associate Dean Dan Burkey Elected as AIChE Fellow

Burkey serves as director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Education Division, where he oversees a mentoring program for students interested in becoming professors.