Dean’s Letters

Nov. 2, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Todd Vanek has been named president of the Council of Engineering Management Academic Leaders.

The Everett Herald highlighted Jacob Murray for his work in a new program between WSU Everett, Clemson University and Boeing that prepares college students for careers in aerospace

Oct. 26, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Trimble and Washington State University have established a state-of-the-art Technology Lab.

Anamika Dubey received the WSU Research Week Faculty Pacesetter Award: Physical Sciences and Engineering for her research in optimization and control of electric power distribution systems with a focus on integration of grid-edge technologies.

Oct. 5, 2021 Voiland College This Week

A WSU team, led by Omar Al-Hassawi, received a 3-year, $750,000 grant to develop a curriculum for building science certificates and a degree focused on energy-efficient housing.

Abdelrhman Mohamed and Haluk Beyenal were featured in WIRED Magazine for their research that measures the health of soil by measuring electric currents produced by microbes.

Sept. 28, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Anti-icing technology developed at Washington State University is being licensed by Fusione Corp., a Massachusetts-based snow and ice operations company, with the goal of creating environmentally responsible and sustainable snow and ice road treatments.

Julia Day and her building research are featured this week by the WSU Foundation.

Sept. 21, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Yuehe Lin and Shichao Ding helped develop a low-cost sensor that can detect and accurately measure the amount of the widely used and controversial herbicide, glyphosate, in droplets of liquid in a laboratory test.

Graduate student Nas Cardwell received second place on presenting “Capturing the Coverage Dependence of Aromatics via Mean-Field Models” at the PNWAVS 2021 meeting.

Sept. 14, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Led by Hongfei Lin, a team of researchers has received a $3.6 million Department of Energy grant to tackle what can arguably called one of humanity’s biggest challenges: how to capture carbon dioxide out of the air to mitigate climate change.

The National Science Foundation reported on the work of Haluk Beyenal, postdoctoral research fellow Abdelrhman Mohamed, and graduate students Eduardo Sanchez and Natalie Sanchez who have developed a way to assess soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes.