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Assistant professors George Prpich of chemical engineering and Shannon Barker of biomedical engineering earned this year’s Hartfield Excellence in Teaching Award, presented to UVA Engineering faculty.

Andrew Li, a UVA third-year computer science and economics major, co-authored a paper diving into a global debate.

DARPA Invests in Photonics Research to Enhance Positioning, Navigation and Timing Capabilities

Yi and his UVA Engineering teammates have achieved breakthroughs in high-speed light detection and ultra-low noise circuits to bring photonic technology closer to reality.

From a remote-controlled “dog” to a robotic surgical unit, students, faculty and staff of the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science demonstrated to more than 1,000 visitors on Saturday what engineers – and particularly UVA engineers – do to make the world a better place...

Sometimes coaxing students to work effectively in teams is more about teaching them to care for one another.

Prestigious NSF Award Funds Computational Approach to Improving Catalytic Materials for a Cleaner World

To make a better catalyst, Chris Paolucci is using quantum physics, chemical engineering knowhow and computing power to decode chemical reactions down to the atom.

Prestigious NSF Grant Funds Rachel Letteri’s Biomaterials Research Harnessing the Powerful Chemistry of Polymer Science for Health Care

Rachel Letteri’s lab is building a system for producing hydrogels that capture the complex features of human tissues to use in cell culture studies, 3D printing-based...

Synchronized Oscillator-based System Promises Efficient and Accurate Way to Solve Impossibly Complex Problems

Their chip achieves a 100-times improvement in computation with the same accuracy as conventional digital computing.

Rupa Valdez, associate professor in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, conducts research that involves thinking about and designing useful systems to help people living with disabilities and chronic health conditions.

Matthew B. Dwyer, Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor, has published widely in the areas of program analysis, software specification and automated formal methods.