![\"crow21\"](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\")
<\/a><\/p>\nDr. Crow joined Pratt & Whitney in 1966 and rose to the position of Senior Vice President of the company\u2019s Engineering, where he oversaw 6,600 engineers responsible for the design, development, validation and certification of all Pratt & Whitney large commercial engines, military engines and rocket products.\u00a0 Earlier, he served as Senior Vice President for the company\u2019s Large Commercial Engines unit.\u00a0 He is a past secretary of the SAE, a member of ASME and AIAA, and an elected member of the University of Missouri-Rolla Academy of Mechanical Engineers and <\/span>the UConn Academy of Distinguished Engineers. \u00a0<\/p>\nEarning the Collaborator of the Year Award, which is presented to a partner whose collaboration is likely to have a strong and lasting impact on the State economy, was General Electric Corporation<\/strong>. Last fall, GE Indust<\/span>rial Systems expanded <\/span>its partnership with UConn Engineering through a five-year, $7.5 million investment that includes an endowed professorship, undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, and $3.3 million in funding for company directed research at UConn, focused on electrical-protection technologies, including circuit breaker technologies.\u00a0\u00a0 The investment brings together researchers from various academic disciplines and from the energy industry to conduct R&D on core electrical-protection technologies, including circuit breakers. Paul Singer, Technology General Manager of GE Industrial Systems, accepted on behalf of GE.<\/p>\nNew Patents<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nIn addition, a number of UConn engineering faculty members were honored for their receipt of U.S. patents during the 2012-13 year. They are listed below:<\/span><\/p>\nBaki Cetegen<\/span> and Michael Renfro<\/span> (Mechanical Engineering) \u2013 Fiber Optic Based In-Situ Diagnostics for PEM Fuel Cells, U.S. Patent # 8,268,493<\/span><\/p>\nBahram Javidi<\/span> (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
\n \u00b7\u00a0 <\/span>Depth and Lateral Size Control of Three-Dimensional Images in Projection Integral Imaging, U.S. Patent # 8,264,722
\n \u00b7\u00a0 <\/span>Optical Data Storage Device and Method, U.S. Patent # 8,155,312
\n \u00b7\u00a0 <\/span>Optical Security System Using Fourier Plane Encoding, U.S. Patent # 8,150,033
\n \u00b7\u00a0 <\/span>System and Method for Recognition of a Three-Dimensional Target, U.S. Patent # 8,150,100<\/span><\/p>\nAggelos Kiayias<\/span> (Computer Science & Engineering) \u2013 Systems and Methods for Key Generation in Wireless Communication Systems, U.S. Patent # 8,208,628<\/span><\/p>\nH. Russell Kunz<\/span> (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Center for Clean Energy Engineering) and Leonard Bonville<\/span> (Center for Clean Energy Engineering) \u2013 Bipolar Plate for Fuel Cell, U.S. Patent # 8,097,385<\/p>\nRichard Parnas<\/span> (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) and Nicholas Leadbeater<\/span> (Chemistry) \u2013 Systems for Alkyl Ester Production, U.S. Patent # 8,119,832<\/span><\/p>\nLei Wang<\/span> (Electrical & Computer Engineering) \u2013 Error-Tolerant Multi-Treaded memory Systems with Reduced Error Accumulation, U.S. Patent # 8,190,982<\/span><\/p>\nQuing Zhu<\/span> (Electrical & Computer Engineering) \u2013 Method and Apparatus for Medical Imaging using Near-Infrared Optical Tomography and Fluorescence Tomography Combined with Ultrasound, U.S. Patent # 8,239,006<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UConn Engineering was well represented during the Second Annual Celebration of Innovation, presented by the UConn Office of Economic Development on April 10th. The gala event afforded the innovation community an opportunity to network and to celebrate the achievements of some of its most outstanding members. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-15335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 04:41:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224569,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions\/224569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15335"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=15335"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"innovate2\"](\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/innovate2.jpg\")
<\/a>UConn Engineering was well represented during the Second Annual Celebration of Innovation, presented by the UConn Office of Economic Development on April 10th<\/sup>. The gala event (see event photos here<\/span><\/span><\/a>) afforded the innovation community an opportunity to network and to celebrate the achievements of some of its most outstanding members. Read a related story here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n