College of Engineering News Archive

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October 17, 2008	Putting a New Face on the Elections The facial expressions of this year’s presidential candidates could play an important role in helping voters make choices, according to an Ohio State University researcher.
October 1, 2008	Ohio State Awarded Prestigious Materials Research Center A new $10.8 million interdisciplinary research center at Ohio State University will study and develop materials for tomorrow’s electronics. The National Science Foundation has granted the university the funds over six years to establish a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
September 9, 2008	Leading Automotive Supplier Supports Engineering Students Engineering students are revved up about a valuable donation that will support improvements of their project building at the Ohio State University’s Center for Automotive Research (CAR).
August 26, 2008	Buckeye Bullet 2 Meets More Milestones for Fuel Cell Vehicles The Buckeye Bullet 2 student team has returned from the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah after finding further success in testing new hydrogen fuel cell technology for automobiles. The Buckeye Bullet 2, a hydrogen fuel cell powered streamliner racer, last week traveled at the highest speed ever recorded by a hydrogen/fuel cell vehicle: 297 mph.
August 20, 2008	Washington Named Interim Dean Ohio State Provost Joe Alutto today announced that Dr. Gregory N. Washington has been appointed the interim dean for the College of Engineering. Subject to approval by the Board of Trustees, his appointment will be effective from October 1, 2008, through September 30, 2010. He will replace W. A. “Bud” Baeslack III when he steps down as dean on September 30 to assume the position of executive vice president and provost at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
July 15, 2008	Chaykowski Appointed Executive Director for Advancement Ohio State Dean of Engineering W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III announced that Stephen B. Chaykowski has been named Executive Director for Engineering Advancement, effective July 14. He joins Ohio State from the Cleveland Clinic, where he served as senior director for development.
June 27, 2008	College Assists Med Center’s ‘Green’ Expansion Ohio State’s expanding health sciences campus will monitor its “green” performance thanks to a unique partnership with the Center for Resilience in the College of Engineering and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
June 25, 2008	Faculty Selected as Next Generation of Engineering Leaders Two Ohio State engineering faculty members have been selected among 82 of the nation’s brightest young engineers to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 14^th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.
June 16, 2008	Students’ Roller Coasters Thrill Kings Island Engineer The builder of The Beast roller coaster provided first-year engineering students with advice as they displayed their model-scale coasters in a year-end competition.
June 11, 2008	Grad Student Develops Greenhouse Gas Inventory Tool
June 11, 2008	Ohio State Team Places Third in NASA Competition A team of Ohio State students placed third in the 2008 NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Competition. The annual competition challenges university students worldwide to design proposals for the future of the aerospace field.
June 2, 2008	Honors Engineering Students Culminate Year With Robot Competition The studies of first-year engineering students from the Ohio State Fundamentals of Engineering Honors Program culminated with a robot competition at St. John Arena May 22.
June 2, 2008	Nanotechnology Piques Interest of First-Year Honors Students While students in the robot sections developed a robot as part of a design and build project, those in the nano sections designed a very small scale, portable laboratory and used it in a research project.
May 27, 2008	The “Green” House Effect: Ohio State Seniors Create Sustainable Home Many have heard of “peas in a pod,” but what about people in a pod? Senior mechanical engineering and architecture students are collaborating on the design and construction of an energy-efficient, sustainable home called the “Pod.” The Pod exhibits such innovations as solar power, solar hot water heating, gray water recycling, energy- and water-saving appliances, sustainable building materials and more through an innovative design.
May 23, 2008	Freshman Engineering Roller Coasters Build Excitement In the competitive world of amusement parks, engineers are responsible for coming up with innovative and exciting ideas for new roller coaster rides while still adhering to the laws of physics and safety requirements. Ohio State first-year engineering students who built their own model-scale coasters will close the academic year with a competition next week to showcase their best examples.
May 21, 2008	Ohio State Team Takes Third Place in Challenge X A team of Ohio State College of Engineering students has placed third in the nation in a four-year, U.S. Department of Energy competition to improve automotive technology in engine efficiency and emissions.
May 19, 2008	Engineering Honors Students Hold Robot Competition Although the weather is warming up, St. John Arena will be cooling down to host the Ohio State University College of Engineering robot competition this week. First-year engineering students from the Ohio State Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Program will test robots they designed and built in a competition to simulate a mission where robots complete tasks at a research station in Antarctica.
May 19, 2008	Engineering Students Showcase Capstone Projects Within years, a new bolt design developed by a team of enterprising Ohio State engineering students could be in use in Honda’s vehicle suspension.
May 15, 2008	Engineering Students Win Premier Scholarship Awards One of the most prestigious national awards for undergraduate researchers studying the sciences has been awarded to three College of Engineering students.
May 2, 2008	Students, NASA Researchers Finish Lunar Oxygen Experiments A team of four Ohio State aerospace engineering students conducted experiments on a NASA aircraft this spring — while experiencing the effects of reduced gravity — to see if minerals in the moon’s soil can be converted to oxygen, which could be used for astronauts to breathe or to produce the combustion necessary for propulsion and energy generation.
May 2, 2008	Challenge X Heads to Final Competition Ohio State College of Engineering students improving the efficiency and emissions of an SUV are embarking on the final leg of a national four-year competition that will conclude in the nation’s capitol. On May 13, members of the Challenge X student team will begin a road trip from New York to Washington, D.C., in the ultimate test of their gas-turned-hybrid SUV. The grueling trial will take eight days, finishing on May 21.
April 28, 2008	Ohio State Engineering Featured on “IMIX” on Big Ten Network The Big Ten Network’s newest “iMix” episode features three of the College of Engineering’s best kept secrets. The “iMix” program explores the Ohio State University Airport; takes viewers on a ride with the Ohio State Flight Program’s flight simulator; and looks in depth at materials science and engineering professor Doru Stefanescu and his students as they shape our future through a joint MIT/NASA project to provide oxygen for a permanent base on the moon, exploring possibilities of metal casting in our world and beyond. Watch this episode “iMix” at www.wosu.org/imix.
April 8, 2008	Department Recognizes Two NSF Fellowship Award Winners Two mechanical engineering students were recently awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship that provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees; totaling an amount of nearly $121,500 for each award recipient.
April 4, 2008	Aerospace Students Conduct Lunar Experiment at NASA Working with NASA scientists, a team of four Ohio State aerospace engineering undergraduates began testing their potentially groundbreaking experiment in processing oxygen from lunar soil today.
February 22, 2008	NASA brings 50th anniversary celebration to Columbus When NASA brings its 50th anniversary celebration to COSI Columbus on Thursday, Feb. 21, to discuss the role of space exploration in advancing science, engineering, technology and the economy in Ohio, the College of Engineering will be there to mark the agency’s milestone. William A. “Bud” Baeslack, Dean of Engineering, will participate in the NASA Future Forum during the celebration.
January 24, 2008	Engineering Students Join International Quest to Build Solar-Powered Home A student team at Ohio State’s College of Engineering has been selected to participate in an international, U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored competition to design, build and operate a fully solar-powered home. The prestigious competition, called the Solar Decathlon, pits university-led teams in the two-year contest, which culminates in fall 2009 when their homes will be shipped to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for display and final judging.
January 16, 2008	U.S. Senator Promotes National Energy Policy at CAR Event U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown visited the Center for Automotive Research Jan. 15 to promote the need for a comprehensive national energy policy. Brown lauded the energy work at CAR as an example of how Ohio, with its agriculture industry, entrepreneurial spirit and manufacturing base, is positioned to become the “Silicon Valley of alternative energy.”

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