Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript "A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’: The nuclear waste management strategy (part III): Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Romania in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy."
The article is the third part…
Hal Berghel (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was named a life fellow of The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers effective Jan. 1.
UNLV's Team Las Vegas will be honored Nov. 9 by the Nevada Conservation League with the Green Guardian Award for their strides in renewable energy during the U.S. Department of Energy's international Solar Decathlon sustainable homebuilding competition. The award recognizes those dedicated to increasing access to a…
Jeremy Cho (Mechanical Engineering), along with doctoral students Yiwei Gao and Negin Garakani, and undergraduate Nicholas K. K. Chai, authored a paper published in Soft Matter with Sujit S. Datta of Princeton University. The paper is titled "Scaling laws to predict humidity-induced swelling and stiffness in…
Hal Berghe (Computer Science) published an article, "A Collapsing Academy, Part II: How Cancel Culture Works on the Academy," in the October 2021 issue of IEEE Computer.
Christian Ison, Janet Dufek (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Mohamed Trabia (Mechanical Engineering) published a paper, "Use of Pressure-Measuring Insoles to Characterize Gait Parameters in Simulated Reduced Gravity Conditions" in the journal Sensors. Ison is a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary health sciences…
Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Brendan Morris (Electronic and Computer Engineering), Zhaohuam Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Mira Han (Life Sciences), Kazem Taghva (Computer Science), and Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) were awarded National Science…
Zakai Olsen (Mechanical Engineering) just had the paper titled "A hyperelastic porous media framework for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators and sensors: thermodynamically consistent formulation and nondimensionalization of the field equations" published in Smart Material and Structures journal. Olsen just completed his PhD…
Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering), director of UNLV's Transportation Research Center, was recently appointed to serve as a voting member on the Nevada Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety. Nambisan has more than 30 years of experience in developing research enterprises and has led efforts on more than 170 projects,…
Sajjad Ahmad and Haroon Stephen,(both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with master's student Usha Poudel, published an article, "Evaluating Irrigation Performance and Water Productivity Using EEFlux ET and NDVI" in the Sustainability journal's special issue Machine Learning with Metaheuristic Algorithms for Sustainable…
Emma Regentova and Venkatesan Muthukumar (both Electrical and Computer Engineering ), Si Jung Kim (Entertainment Engineering and Design), and Jonathan Hilpert (Education) have received an $882,699 award from the National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning program for implementing the project " NEVADA STEM LAB…
Melissa Bartshe, Courtney Coughenour (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Haroon Stephen (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published an article on "The relationship between tree canopy and social capital on physical activity in college students" in the Journal of American College Health.
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