College of Engineering
Faculty Honors & Awards
UConn's Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) and the Office of the Secretary of the State of Connecticut jointly applied for and won a competitive 2010 Voting System Pre-Election Logic and Accuracy Testing & Post-Election Audit Initiative grant from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
July 21, 2011 | Cindy Weiss, CLAS Today
Students to Receive Intelligent Transportation Grants
Two teams involving Civil & Environmental Engineering students have been approved to proceed with research projects of interest to the Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) of Connecticut. Both teams are advised by assistant professor Nicholas Lownes, Director of the Center for Transportation & Livable Systems.
July 21, 2011 | Eli Freund
Alumni Notes
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July 21, 2011 | Eli Freund
Editor’s Corner
Editor's Corner is a new series in which we will profile top journals edited by our faculty members.
July 19, 2011 | Eli Freund
More success for T2 Center’s Public Works Academy
The Connecticut Transportation Institute’s Technology Transfer Center (T2 Center) completed another successful session of the Connecticut Public Works Academy -- a program aimed at providing recently hired employees with education on core competencies integral to a successful career in public works.
July 18, 2011 | Eli Freund
Engineering for Impact: Pope Park Cleanup
A group of over 40 engineering students spent a spring Saturday cleaning up Hartford's Pope Park and learning valuable lessons in collaborative team-work and community service.
July 8, 2011 | Eli Freund
Top HS Design Team Visits Engineering
The Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2) hosted 12 student members of the Xavier High School Engineering Club, which recently won top honors in the 2011 Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) for their next-generation airplane wing designed to maximize fuel efficiency and enhance performance.
July 8, 2011 | Eli Freund
UConn ITE Team Wins Traffic Bowl
On March 24th, four UConn transportation engineering graduate students were named the winners of the Annual Northeastern District Collegiate Traffic Bowl, a Jeopardy! style trivia competition held at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Amherst.
July 6, 2011 | Eli Freund
ECE Graduate Student Receives Prestigious SPIE Award
Doctoral candidate Behnoosh Tavakoli received a $3,000 SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics honoring her student leadership and scholarly activities.
June 23, 2011 | Eli Freund
Graduate Students Capture Honors, Enjoy Networking
Two graduate students in the Department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering (CMBE), were honored recently at the national level.
June 16, 2011 | Eli Freund