{"id":21602,"date":"2015-11-18T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=21602"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:34:07","slug":"whats-happening-uconn-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/11\/whats-happening-uconn-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Happening @ UConn Engineering!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are just some of the things happening recently at the UConn Engineering!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157661286471135\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21603 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/scholarship-awards-sept-2015-1024x457.jpg\" alt=\"scholarship-awards-sept-2015\" width=\"90%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/457;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On September 2015, we held our annual Scholarship Award ceremony. Students, faculty, donors and guests came together to honor our School of Engineering scholarship recipients. Click on the photo to view our Flickr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157661286471135\">gallery<\/a> of the event or view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gByRQuzSI_M\">video<\/a> below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"UConn Engineering Scholarship Awards 2015\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gByRQuzSI_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157661128943931\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21604 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/dean-kamen-event.jpg\" alt=\"dean-kamen-event\" width=\"90%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On November 7, 2015 the University of Connecticut welcomed Dean Kamen! Who is Dean Kamen? Dean Kamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for science and technology.\u00a0 His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined\u2014his own passion for technology and its practical uses has driven his personal determination to spread the word about technology\u2019s virtues and by so doing to change the culture of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the photo to view our Flickr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157661128943931\">gallery<\/a> of the event!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157660092846218\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21605 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ioh-nov-2015.jpg\" alt=\"ioh-nov-2015\" width=\"90%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On November 5th, 2015, people from industry got to go on a &#8220;speed date&#8221; with our participating faculty to discuss to forging new partnerships, establish relationships with their companies and the School of Engineering faculty. In addition, the event hosted poster sessions so that people from industry can see the exciting research and collaboration happening at the School of Engineering. Learn more about our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/industryopenhouse\/\">Industry Open House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the photo to view our Flickr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157660092846218\">gallery<\/a> of the event!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is an exciting time here at UConn School of Engineering! This Fall 2015 new partnerships and collaborations are being formed with faculty; in addition we celebrate and honor the achievements of our faculty and students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":184792,"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":[56],"class_list":["post-21602","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":"2026-05-10 07:55:48","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\/21602","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=21602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222044,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions\/222044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/184792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}