{"id":22753,"date":"2016-09-27T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=22753"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:07:53","slug":"awards-and-honors-around-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/09\/awards-and-honors-around-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Honors Around Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

UConn engineers receive a number of awards; here’s a selection of honors our faculty and students recently received.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center and the Connecticut Department of Transportation has received national recognition for its state of the art motor vehicle crash reporting system and development of the Connecticut Crash Data Repository. On August 31, 2016, representatives from CTDOT and UCONN CTSRC attended the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) annual meeting to accept the Peter K. O\u2019Rourke Special Achievement Award in the Field of Highway Safety.
\n The CTDOT in partnership with the CTSRC collaborated on a landmark effort to improve the quality and accessibility of the state\u2019s crash data. \u201cOur previous crash reporting system, which met the needs of earlier generations of state and local safety planners, was in need of being overhauled and replaced. We capitalized on the opportunity, collaborated, and produced a state-of-the-art system that enhances our ability to collect, analyze and most effectively utilize timely, complete and accurate crash data,\u201d said DOT Commissioner James P. Redeker. \u201cThis partnership demonstrated that a multi-disciplinary interagency project team is an effective model for expediting project delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor S. Pamir Alpay, UConn material science and engineering department head, presented a lecture on \u201cAccelerating Materials Deployment and Manufacturing via Multi-Scale Modeling and Genomics\u201d at the 40th year celebration of the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, or KIMM, in Daejeon, South Korea August 18.
\n For its third year at South Korea\u2019s KIMM, the International Forum on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, or IFAME, a one-day conference, convened in August 2016 where a select group of speakers from industry, academia, and research institutions across the world presented their research. Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Manos Anagnostou has been named a new editor in chief for the Journal of Hydrology. he Journal of Hydrology<\/em> publishes original research papers and comprehensive reviews in all the subfields of the hydrological sciences<\/b> including water based management<\/b> and policy<\/b> issues that impact on economics and society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Seok-Woo Lee has received a NASA 2016 Space Technology Research Opportunity Early Career Award for his project, Development of Small-Volume, High-Precision, and Reliable Cryogenic Linear Actuators by Using Novel Inter<\/em>. The award is $600,000 for three years.<\/p>\n

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Materials Science and Engineering Professor Rampi Ramprasad<\/a> recently attended the fifth year anniversary event of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI)<\/a> hosted by the U.S. White House. \u00a0Among the accomplishments recognized at the event were the outcomes of the UConn Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)<\/a>, a collaboration of five universities lead by UConn\u2019s team of researchers including Professor Ramprasad of MSE, Professor Gregory Sotzing<\/a> of Chemistry<\/a>, and Professor Yang Cao<\/a> of Electrical Engineering<\/a>. Learn more by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rebecca \u201cBecca\u201d\u00a0Rubinstein was recently awarded the EPA STAR Fellowship for\u00a0her research on wastewater treatment with Dr. Ranjan Srivastava. Becca is a PhD student in the UConn environmental engineering program,\u00a0where her\u00a0research is focused on understanding and modeling biological wastewater treatment. Nutrients commonly found in wastewater streams, particularly nitrogen species, can seriously damage aquatic ecosystems near the outfall, and as a result are carefully regulated. The microbial\u00a0community that is largely responsible for nutrient removal from wastewater streams is very complex, changing\u00a0in response to both nutrient loading rates and ambient environmental conditions.\u00a0The objective of this project is\u00a0to characterize the chemical and microbial system in the activated sludge basin of the UConn Water Pollution Control Facility through daily sampling and analysis at various locations in the treatment basin. A machine learning approach will be applied to model the system.\u00a0The\u00a0model will\u00a0then be used to dynamically optimize\u00a0treatment conditions. In developing this model, Becca hopes to provide a useful tool for evaluating the impact of different treatment techniques or system perturbations on treatment efficiency.<\/p>\n

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