Olivia Drake


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Students in a classroom.

College of Engineering Offers New Ph.D. Program in Engineering Education

The interdisciplinary program explores connections between engineering and the social sciences and helps students think expansively about learning to inform their work as scholars and teachers

Dan Burkey

UConn Associate Dean Dan Burkey Elected as AIChE Fellow

Burkey serves as director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Education Division, where he oversees a mentoring program for students interested in becoming professors.

Student voting.

Center for Voting Technology Conducts Comprehensive Assessment of New Connecticut Voting Machines

The Secretary of State asked UConn's VoTeR Center to test multiple voting tabulators for reliability and evaluate which models are least prone to cyberattacks

NASA module

Mission Complete: Lee Spends 45 Days in NASA Simulated Journey to Mars

By participating in the mission, College of Engineering's Jason Lee contributed to NASA’s efforts to study how future astronauts may react to isolation and confinement during deep-space journeys

Endoscopes as an alternative to invasive exploratory procedures and surgeries.

Seeing the Unseen: Professor Zheng, Peers, Develop Novel Endoscopic High-Res Imaging Technique

The new lensless process, called Synthetic Aperture Ptycho-Endoscopy (SAPE), uses an advanced imaging process to capture bending patterns of light through a bundle of ultrathin optical fibers

Faculty, staff, and students from UConn's Connecticut Manufacturing Simulation Center (CMSC) visited engineers at Aero Gear, Inc. on May 29 to discuss their ongoing collaboration. CMSC offers small Connecticut manufacturing businesses with free technical support and specialized machining processes and simulations.  

Connecticut Manufacturing Simulation Center Offers Technical Advising to Small Businesses

CMSC promotes innovation and economic development through modeling and simulation work while teaching the next-generation workforce advanced computing and simulation skills

The UConn Formula SAE team examines their vehicle during the competition at Michigan International Speedway.  

Driven to Succeed: UConn Formula SAE Makes History with 4th Place Win

The annual competition, organized by SAE International, challenges students to conceive, design, fabricate, develop, and compete with high performance "formula" vehicles

senior design demo day

Engineering Students Share Yearlong Research Projects During Senior Design Demo Day

Through their Senior Design projects, students work to solve real-world engineering problems while learning valuable skills

Jeffrey McCutcheon is the General Electric Professor in Advanced Manufacturing in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 

McCutcheon Uses Membrane Technologies to Engineer a Cleaner Future

This month, the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) is honoring College of Engineering Professor Jeffrey McCucheon for his outstanding contributions to the field of membrane science

The Collaboratory for Biomedical and Bioengineering Innovation opened April 2 with a symposium and poster session.

College of Engineering Launches New Collaboratory for Biomedical and Bioengineering Innovation

Biomedical and bioengineering researchers at UConn and UConn Health will work together to invent, develop, and establish new interdisciplinary collaborations outside their existing research networks