College of Engineering
Study Targets Pharmaceutical Drug Impacts on Rivers
It has become customary for millions of Americans to consume both prescription and over-the-counter drugs with regularity. Unfortunately, this habit comes with adverse effects to our environment.
EPA Grant to Support EWB Work in Nicaragua
Dr. Marisa Chrysochoou, an assistant professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and two undergraduate members of the UConn chapter of Engineers Without Borders, received $15,000 in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to research indigenous solutions for stabilizing a chronically washed out roadway connecting the impoverished shantytown community of la Prusia, Nicaragua with the nearby historic city of Granada.
BRIDGE: Preparing for Academic Success
The legacy of the School of Engineering's annual summer BRIDGE program, offered for accepted freshmen who are designated as underrepresented populations in engineering, is best understood through the lasting relationships BRIDGE students form among their peers and among their tutors.
Materials Science Teams Score Honors
Three interdisciplinary teams won honors at the Materials Science & Technology 2011 conference for their photographic images of a variety of natural and manufactured phenomena taken using electron and atomic force microscopes.
ROTC Cadet Palmer Receives Meritorious Achievement Award
In September, Mechanical Engineering senior and ROTC Cadet Douglas Palmer was awarded the Army Achievement Medal for Meritorious Achievement.
UConn’s smallTalk Top Pick at Preliminary Innovation Event
On October 20, a consortium of universities staged a first-ever multi-institutional student innovation poster competition on the campus of Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) in conjunction with the October Innovation Connection networking function.
Students Showcase Invention at National Conference
An Environmental Engineering senior design team has recently showcased their novel sensing device during the national conference of the Geological Society of America in Minneapolis, MN. Jenabay Hupman, Bryan Toohey and Sean Buckley, along with their advisor, Dr. John Lane, found an exciting forum to display their new temperature measuring device.
Texas Prairie Hides Remnants of Supercollider
In the early 1990's, 150 feet below ground in Waxahachie, Texas, the nation's top engineers collaborated on a project of enormous scale: the construction of a superconducting super collider facility that would have exceeded the scope of CERN’s large hadron collider in Geneva, Switzerland.
Center Recognizes Members of Transportation Community
On October 27, 2011, the CT Technology Transfer Center (T2 Center) held a ceremony to honor individuals in Connecticut's transportation community.
Welcome from Dean Choi
In a new video, Dean of Engineering Mun Choi welcomes members of the engineering community and highlights some of the features that distinguish UConn Engineering as a top educational destination and research leader.