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Groups Honor UVA Faculty Members, Student for Outstanding Contributions
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.
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UVA Engineering Undergraduate Student Seizes Unique Opportunity to Ask Hard Questions about the Internet of Things
Andrew Li, a UVA third-year computer science and economics major, co-authored a paper diving into a global debate.
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UVA-led Research Team Pursues Next Big Leap in Radar and GPS Systems
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.
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Back by Popular Demand: UVA Engineering Open House
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...
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Even Sabotage is Fair Game for UVA Engineering Professor Striving to Teach Computer Science Students the Art of Teamwork
Sometimes coaxing students to work effectively in teams is more about teaching them to care for one another.
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CAREER Award: It’s a Dirty Job, but Some Catalyst Has Got to Do It
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.
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CAREER Award: Big Molecules, Boundless Possibilities
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...
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UVA Engineering Team Debuts New Type of Chip
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.
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Faculty Spotlight: Valdez Makes Travel Easier for People With Disabilities
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.
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Computer Science Professor Earns Service Award
Matthew B. Dwyer, Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor, has published widely in the areas of program analysis, software specification and automated formal methods.