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Strathclyde engineering professor first in Scotland to receive Chinese honour – University of Strathclyde
Professor Tariq Durranifrom the University of Strathclyde is the first person from Scotland to be elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Academy is the world's largest research organisation, with around 60,000 researchers working in 114 institutes, and has been consistently ranked among the top research organisations around the world.
It functions as Chinas national academy and as the national scientific think tank and academic governing body. Election to the Academy is one of the highest honours that China bestows on a citizen of a foreign country.
Professor Durrani, a Research Professor in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, was recognised for his innovations in key areas of signal processing, his leadership of the engineering profession, his long term collaboration with Chinese researchers and his establishment of the China Scotland Signal Image Processing Research Academy (SIPRA) ten years ago.
He said:
I am thrilled, delighted and honoured at this unique recognition, coming especially from peers in China who lay great store on innovation, quality and impact of ones work."
The professorwill be inducted into the Academy at a ceremony in later in the New Year, COVID restrictions permitting.
Professor Durrani joined Strathclyde as a lecturer in 1976 and was appointed Professor of Signal Processing in 1982, the first on the subject in the UK.
He was formerly Deputy Principal, overseeing staff development, the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Centre for Lifelong Learning and the Universitys IT and computing infrastructure, and was Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering from 1986 to 1990.
Professor Durrani was appointed an OBE in 2003 for his services to Higher Education and electronics research and has been Vice President (International) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Vice President for Educational Activities for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He was also the Co-Chair of the Advisory Board for the UNESCO Engineering Report II on the progress of UN Members States towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and, in 2018, was elected Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering again the first person from Scotland to receive such recognition.
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This Engineer, Actor and Science Communicator Is Giving Science Its Rap – Scientific American
Maynard Okereke is using his distinctive voice to fight the lack of minority representation in STEM
For many of us, the past year and a half may have seemed to slow way down. And in fact, some studies have shown just this. But Maynard Okerekes life has been anything but slow recently. He just got back from a month at sea where he worked with a team of oceanographers and roboticists to map the deep ocean and explore hydrothermal vents. That was right after he spent some time experiencing the sensation of weightlessness during a zero gravity flight with a group called Space for Humanity. And at the end of 2020 he even made an appearance on Shark Tank to co-pitcha plant-based chicken. (The nonchicken chicken wowed the sharks and received venture funding.)
Okereke, better known as the Hip Hop M.D., is all hustle for science. Recently he (virtually) sat down with the Springer Nature Black Employee Network to discuss his background, accomplishments and current projects.
Click here to watch an extended version of the interview.
Okereke graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in civil engineering. He remembers growing up as one of very few minorities in his classes. These experiences became more prevalent as he became older and moved into the workspace. Going into my job as a lead engineer and walking into a room and people not believing I was the lead scientist or engineer..., having those experiences while I was working professionally really impacted me and was always something that stood front and center, he says.
Okereke started a platform called Hip Hop Science with the goal of encouraging people from minority groups and youth to pursue more advanced career paths. He uses the avenues of music, entertainment and comedy as tools to educate on a wide variety of subjects with a style that he describes as Bill Nye meets Worldstar.
This discussion is part of a speaker series hosted by the Black Employee Network at Springer Nature, the publisher of Scientific American. The series aims to highlight Black contributions to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)a history that has not been widely recognized. It will cover career paths, role models and mentorship, and diversity in STEM.
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Teenage Engineerings OP-1 synth is Reverbs best-selling music tech product of the year again, so whats going on? – MusicRadar
It might have celebrated its 10th birthday this year, but the popularity of Teenage Engineerings OP-1 shows no sign of dwindling. Online marketplace Reverb has confirmed that, yet again, the diminutive synth/sampler is its best-selling piece of music tech gear of the year, which is a pretty remarkable achievement.
Its hard to pinpoint exactly why the OP-1 remains so popular, but its Reverb ranking is certainly helped by the fact that the platform sells both new and used gear, and the OP-1 is in huge demand in both market sectors.
Its also fair to say that Teenage Engineerings instrument has become something of a contemporary icon. Artists frequently rave about it - and film their children playing with it - so bedroom producers are desperate to find out what all the fuss is about.
Whats more, its still getting new features; back in July, Teenage Engineering added the option to use the OP-1 as a USB audio interface.
Sitting just behind the OP-1 in both the overall and synth categories is Arturias MicroFreak, another portable synth, but one thats considerably more affordable.
Like the OP-1, this has a quirky vibe to it - the Buchla Easel-style 25-key capacitive keyboard immediately makes it stand out - and again demonstrates that synth manufacturers can benefit from doing something slightly different.
Sitting third in both the overall list and the best-selling drum machines, samplers and grooveboxes chart is Elektrons Digitakt, a sampling groovebox that hits a price sweet spot between Elektrons super-affordable Model:Samples and its more expensive hardware.
Interestingly, this means that all three of Reverbs best-selling products are primarily digital, confirming that there are limits to the extent of the much talked about analogue revival.
Coming in at number four in the overall chart and topping the list of best-selling Eurorack modules is Make Noises Maths, a function generator thats often described as the Swiss Army Knife of modular gear. This is something of a staple in the world of Eurorack, so its continued success (it was released back in 2012) comes as no great surprise.
Check out the full lists of best-selling music tech gear on the Reverb website.
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‘Engineering that truly matters’: Students give local man with cerebral palsy gift of family bike rides in time for 27th birthday – University of…
A local man with cerebral palsy will receive the gift of going on family bike rides again just in time for his 27th birthday thanks to a group of University of Dayton engineering students who designed an electric bike with a trailer that can be easily transported and pulled by his family.
"We used to be a very active family, and Kain used to be very small," said Kain Hubler's mother, Erica Hubler, in a meeting with the first group of students working on the project. "And when he hit 14, he shot up to 6-2. We used to pull him. It's uncomfortable for him. It was too hard for us. We were missing out on that as a family. So if we go, he has to stay home. It's not inclusive. So he doesn't get to participate in family activities like he used to, because we don't have anything adaptive we can use for him."
Members of the group presented Kain's family with the trailer last month at the University of Dayton's Kettering Laboratories.
The students endeavored to create a design that incorporated Kain's wheelchair, rather than requiring Kain to transfer from his wheelchair to a bike, and at the same time, safely secured Kain and the wheelchair. From there, they designed an electric powering mechanism for the bike.
Twelve senior design students worked on the project for two years along with Kain's occupational therapist and family. A National Institutes of Health grant enabled the University of Dayton to partner with United Rehabilitation Services on the project. Kim Bigelow, a professor of mechanical engineering; Allison Kinney, an associate professor of mechanical engineering; and Becky Blust, director of the School of Engineering's Innovation Center, among others, mentored the students.
"I've learned a lot school can't teach you. I think this is a project we'll all look back on for the rest of our lives and it will be a big learning experience for all of us," said Jake Lucca, who graduated in May 2021.
Bigelow said she was struck by how well the students adapted to experiences outside of engineering, like working with Kain's family and occupational therapist to understand his needs and preferences, as well as the wrench thrown into the project by the pandemic.
However, Bigelow said, their reward of delivering Kain's family their bike will far exceed their hurdles.
"The students worked so much harder when they knew that's what's at stake," Bigelow said. "It's because they want to deliver on a promise to this family, and they know what that will mean to them.
"This is going to change someone's life the day we give it to them. They're going to know they do engineering that truly matters."
For interviews, contact Shawn Robinson, associate director of news and communications, at srobinson1@udayton.edu.
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Experience4U – how engineering consultancy Buro Happold is automating around its on-prem ERP – Diginomica
Millennium Dome (Photo by JR Harris on Unsplash)
"Automation is key," says Jaime Everard, Business Systems Manager at engineering consultancy Buro Happold. With 1,900 employees and 26 global locations, the 40-year-old company has delivered prestige projects such as the iconic Millenium Dome in London, the Atlanta Falcons Mercedes-Benz Stadium with its distinctive retractable roof, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and many others. Continued evolution of its IT systems is a key part of its ongoing growth. Everard says:
We don't want our engineers spending loads of time filling in data into the system. We'd like the system to be able to automate that as much as possible. Because ultimately, we prefer our people to be out there working with our customers.
I spoke to Everard in the run-up to this week's Experience4U virtual event, organized by Unit4, where he'll chat to Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller about automation in professional services. Buro Happold has been a Unit4 customer since 2004 and our conversation touched on the various ways in which its use of the platform has expanded in recent years to streamline processes and reporting. One notable aspect of this is that the London-based firm has been able to pursue these innovations while still keeping its ERP instance on-prem, rather than having to upgrade to a version that runs in the cloud. Everard doesn't rule out going to the cloud in the future, but it's not a priority right now. He explains:
It's not that we're not going to adopt a Unit4 cloud solution going forwards. It's just getting the timing right for that. At the moment, we do have rack space in a data center, so we are able to sufficiently service all of our global people, in terms of getting access to the system. We've got a great internal infrastructure team that enables that. We use tools such as Citrix, etc, but obviously moving towards a more web-based architecture, which Unit4 provides.
We're almost providing our own cloud, because we just access our services through the data center, and we operate a global WAN to make sure that all of our offices are connected [to each other], and connected to our data center.
Instead of upgrading the back-end, the focus has been on adding new ways to access it. A big part of the automation story has been a move towards 'headless' ERP. This means accessing the back-end system via a conversational layer in Buro Happold's case, the Microsoft Teams messaging app rather than going directly to the ERP application (the 'head') to see data or use functions. This was made possible with Unit4's Wanda chatbot technology, which the firm became the first on-prem customer to start using. It allows users to get information or complete actions directly from the Teams message stream, while the AI technology behind Wanda takes care of communicating with the back-end system. Everard elaborates:
People engaging with the systems having to go around different systems to do different tasks is quite time-consuming, especially when you're an engineer out there on the customer side. The great thing that Teams gives us, and being able to use Wanda through Teams, is a commonality of interface. They didn't even know necessarily what ERP system they're connected to. All they know is, it's doing what they need it to do on a daily basis, whether that's entering your absence, whether it's approving a task, approving an invoice. It can all be done through a common interface, and we do so much now within Teams.
The team has automated a range of different tasks using Wanda across HR and finance tasks, even including setting up and filling in timesheets. Teams is also useful for tracking collaboration around documents in SharePoint. Actions are much less likely to get missed when Wanda sends an alert than when a user receives an email reminder. Everard explains:
If Wanda is prompting you and saying, you've got an invoice to approve, it comes up as what they call a card. You can see the information in Teams, and you just simply click approve, reject, or update later. [Unit4 has] also built in quite a clever web app, which takes you to a very simplified version of the Unit4 tool, so that you can see the invoice, the receipt, all of those things, within there. Again, that's all linked up through Wanda and Teams.
All of these workflows have been built by Everard's team using Unit4's visual workflow builder, making sure that each workflow conforms to the company's internal authorization matrix. The visualization means that users can also track the status of outstanding actions in the workflow at any given time. He explains:
You build it as a diagram, and then you apply the rules into the steps in the diagram. So you can see, as you're building it, where it's going to go, who it's going to go to, how it's going to work. That also benefits the user, because it translates into a nice diagram or map, so they can see who it's with at any point in time.
Workflow flexibility was also useful when implementing Unit4's mobile-first travel and expense app. This had to accommodate very strict regional exchange rate rules in countries such as Poland, where the team implemented a connector to import the correct rates. Automating expense claims has made a big impact, especially with the advent of COVID and the switch to remote working. He explains:
Previously, it was just a matter of taking pictures [of receipts], and then when you got back in the office, you had to complete it within the system. But now you can do everything through the app, including taking pictures of receipts. We even have receipt recognition switched on, so in many cases, it will detect on receipt, what type of expense it is ...
We get the information in terms of approvals to the right people, they can see the receipt, they can say yes, I approve it's within policy, etc. So that's definitely been a big plus for us, adopting expenses. Good job we did do it before COVID. We finished it about three or four months before COVID. We've adopted that globally.
The team is now rolling out Unit4 Procure-to-Pay (P2P), which has just gone live in India and will roll out elsewhere over the coming months. This too will bring much-needed automation, as he explains:
That will bring a great deal of automation, and also will mean a lot of manual process will hopefully go the way of the dinosaur ... At the moment we have an invoice comes in the door, and our AP team have to code that in. With P2P, they won't have to do that anymore. The invoice will come in the door, and we'll be able to match it and then pay our suppliers off the back of that.
There's plenty else going on across the firm's business systems. It recently implemented a new image library, and has just adopted the Cornerstone learning management system. Meanwhile, there's a big project in hand to transition the Deltek project management platform to a new version.
Data analytics is another area where Buro Happold has made big strides in recent years. A dedicated internal team of three PowerBI experts have developed the internal data warehouse to provide curated data models to various parts of the organization, which allows people to generate their own reports. Doing this internally rather than relying on outside consultants "means we're delivering, first time, what the stakeholder wants," says Everard. It's proven its worth, particularly when navigating the uncertainties of the pandemic, as he explains:
That has given our leadership real visibility into what's happening. During the pandemic, frankly, if we didn't have those tools, our decision making would have been impacted.
It's really helped our decision making, so we're continually growing our offering. It's probably our most in-demand area.
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Making the future more sustainable through engineering – Study International News
Waste recycled into energy. Edible cutlery. Clean water treatment.
All these and more are examples of sustainable engineering products and technologies that aim to use natural resources more efficiently and wisely while lessening the negative effects on the environment. That way, we can meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
As Dr. Helen Meese, the former Head of Engineering in Society for the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, says, When engineers are given the opportunity to develop sustainable solutions to global challenges, the results are outstanding,
Indeed, for many engineering professions around the world, sustainable development is becoming more important when incorporated as an engineering principle, this not only benefits society but also helps businesses save more money and time, and opens up new opportunities to make the world a better place.
If you too envision a more sustainable future, consider taking your first step with an engineering degree from one of these top universities:
Located in Turin, the industrial excellence in Italy, Politecnico di Torino is ranked among top 50 universities for Engineering and Technology in the 2020 QS World University Rankings and got great results in the ranking by subject and for campus sustainability as well.
Source: Politecnico di Torino
Programmes here nurture the values of sustainability, as well as scientific and technological innovation. These include innovative and up to date programs such as: Architecture For Sustainability, Digital Skills For Sustainable Societal Transitions, ICT for Smart Societies, Environmental and Land Engineering, and Territorial, Urban, Environmental And Landscape Planning.
Throughout the years, PoliTO has built its good reputation thanks to the quality of its degree programs as well as its commitment to research and innovation through initiatives such as the Festival of Technology, seminars and engagement with the city of Torino.
PoliTO has heavily invested in resources to attract top international talents to study here. With over 400 international agreements, and more than 100 double degree and student mobility agreements, students can access opportunities to take up double degrees in the Erasmus Mundus programme with top level European universities.
PoliTOs student-centred mindset also saw them quickly switching to full-time online teaching and making teaching material available offline for international students in different time zones. It is working hard to welcome students back to the physical campus as quickly and as safely as possible too.
Learning is practical here, with students trained to be work-ready as many as 90.5% of its masters graduates are employed within a year of graduation, a percentage highly above the national average. PoliTO also offers career counselling, recruiting events and local and international job opportunities.
With several campuses in Switzerland that boast scenic views of the Alps, easy transport access and excellent infrastructures for teaching and learning, ETH Zurich has is home to over 23,000 students from 121 countries at all academic levels.
The NEST Unit at ETH Zurich is based on the HiLo concept high performance, low emissions. Source: ETH Zurich, Facebook
Over 520 professors work at ETH. They are involved in Switzerlands 10 centres of excellence the centres with the most number of ETH professors are the MaP, the AI Centre and the ESC.
The university is ranked the sixth best in the world by QS. Their interdisciplinary courses ensure students are well supported to know how to deal with contemporary world issues through critical thinking, responsible behaviour and teamwork.
520 professors work at ETH; they are involved in Switzerlands ten centres of excellence the centres with the most number of ETH professors are the MaP, the AI Centre and the ESC.
ETH offers consecutive and specialised masters programmes the former builds up on knowledge gained from the bachelors studies, and the latter focuses on one topic. Students can choose from Environmental Engineering, Integrated Building Systems, Mechanical Engineering, and Energy Science and Technology, among others. Most masters courses can be completed within four semesters.
Imperial College Londons beautiful campus on a sunny day. Source: Imperial College London, Facebook
Imperial College Londons beautiful campus on a sunny day. Source: Imperial College London, Facebook
As the only university in the UK to exclusively focus on science, medicine, engineering and business, Imperial College London is a world-renowned research university with the highest number of high-impact research concentrations in the UK. It also boasts research collaborations in over 140 countries.
Imperial is consistently ranked among the UKs top five universities it is third among European universities, seventh in the world (QS World University Rankings), and has been named as the University of the Year 2022 (Times and Sunday Good Times).
Students here can expect to be part of a supportive research community with access to the latest technology facilities and online learning resources. Postgraduate students can join their Professional Skills Development Programme that equips them with academic and professionalskills in order to be career-ready.
Their Global Fellows Programme allows students to take up a professional skills course and work in top-rated research universities; meanwhile, the Placement and Internship Unit helps students find internships abroad for practical experience.
At Imperial, students can choose to study environmental engineering, soil mechanics, environmental data science and machine learning or even sustainable energy futures (under the Energy Futures Lab).
The cross-faculty Railway Institute a collaboration between ProRail and Delft University. Source: Delft University of Technology, Facebook
The cross-faculty Railway Institute a collaboration between ProRail and Delft University. Source: Delft University of Technology, Facebook
With eight faculties located in the main campus of Delft, the Netherlands, Delft University of Technology has one of the largest university campuses in the world measuring over 161 hectares. Almost 27,000 students call Delft their second; nearly 22% are international.
Delft is ranked in the top 20 European universities, and is among the Netherlands top three universities. It is also the most international university in the country, holding the number one spot nationally for Impact: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure. Most recently, the Times Higher Education Subject Rankings ranked Delft number 21 for Engineering and Technology.
Delft is committed to ensuring its campus is as sustainable as possible there are 4,000 solar panels on 12 buildings roofs. Their staff is involved in new construction and renovation projects the Pulse education building, where the Faculty of Architecture played a role in its construction, is the first energy-neutral of its kind on the campus.
Excellent research facilities at Delft help students carry out top-lelvel scientific research. These include the Geosciences and Engineering Laboratory, Aerospace Engineering Classroom, and Simona Research Simulator.
Masters courses available here include the MSc Sustainable Energy Technology, MSc Environmental Engineering, and MSc Complex Systems Engineering and Management.
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Simpson earns recognition from national organization | Bagley College of Engineering – Mississippi State Newsroom
November 15, 2021
A Bagley College of Engineering faculty member has been honored with a national award by the Biomedical Engineering Society.
LaShan Simpson, an associate professor of agricultural & biological engineering, was recently recognized by the Biomedical Engineering Society.
LaShan Simpson, an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, is the 2021 winner of the BMES Diversity Lecture Award. The award recognizes an individual, project or organization for impactful contributions towards improving gender and racial diversity in biomedical engineering.
As part of the award, Simpson delivered a plenary lecture at the recent BMES Annual Meeting titled Reclaiming My Identity. She also earned the opportunity to have an article published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. The award comes with a $5,000 stipend as well.
It was an honor to share my story during my presentation, Simpson said. The vulnerability was challenging, but I feel it was very important to discuss the mental health challenges faced by many graduate students. The culture of academia has been allowed to remain toxic for too long. In my presentation, I issued a Call for Compassion to right this wrong.
The award aims to highlights lifetime achievements and high-impact activities that are innovative and improve equity among biomedical engineering academia and industry.
Simpson heads the Cellular Engineering Laboratories within Mississippi States agricultural & biological engineering department. Her research is focused on using polymers and nanoparticles to develop targeted therapies for vascular calcification.
She recently served as the president of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences and has been inducted into the Bagley College of Engineerings Academy of Distinguished Teachers. In 2019, she received the Mississippi State Faculty Award from the Presidents Commission on the Status of Women.
The Biomedical Engineering Societyis the professional society for biomedical engineering and bioengineering. Its missionis topromote and enhance knowledge and education in biomedical engineering and bioengineering worldwide and its utilization for human health and well-being.
The Bagley College of Engineering is online atwww.bagley.msstate.eduand can be found onFacebook,Twitter,InstagramandYouTubeat @msuengineering.
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Chaired Energy Engineering Faculty job with Dartmouth College | 408427 – The Chronicle of Higher Education
CHAIRED ENERGY ENGINEERINGFACULTY
Dartmouths Thayer School ofEngineering seeks to fill a distinguished, senior-level,tenure-track chaired professorship in energy engineering. Anoutstanding candidate is sought with research interests that targetdisruptive innovations in energy-related technologies and considerthe role of such innovations in transforming societal energysystems to be more resilient and sustainable.
The successful candidate will have a doctorate in engineering or arelated, relevant scientific field and have an established recordof thought leadership and externally funded research at a levelappropriate for an appointment at the rank of Full Professor.Consideration will be given to candidates with specialization inany energy-related field, with evaluation based on impact as wellas reinforcing and complementing the Thayer Schools activity inbioenergy, energy materials, power electronics, energy systems, andsustainable design. The successful candidate will also be adedicated and effective teacher with motivation and expertise thatcomplements the Thayer Schools distinctive human-centered,interdisciplinary educational approach.
Applicants should submit a cover letter, complete CV, researchstatement, statement of teaching interests and philosophy, andcontact information for three references.
Please submit applications via Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/98097
Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative actionemployer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. Weprohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity orexpression, disability, veteran status, marital status, or anyother legally protected status. Applications by members of allunderrepresented groups are encouraged.
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Engineering Dean Inducted into National Academy of Inventors – Ole Miss News
In honor of his work to develop new biomedical technologies, UM engineering Dean David Puleo has been inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Photo by Megan Wolfe/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services
OXFORD, Miss. David A. Puleo, dean of the School of Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Mississippi, has been inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Puleo is among 115 inventors elected as 2020 fellows by the NAI, which recognizes and encourages inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and one of 11 chosen from the Southeastern Conference. The new fellows ceremony took place Nov. 3 during the academys 10th annual meeting in Tampa, Florida.
The organizations mission is to enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society.
I am flattered that my colleagues nominated me for fellowship in the NAI, and my induction is a great reflection of the efforts of my students and collaborators during my career, Puleo said. My membership provides the opportunity to bring recognition to some of the outstanding innovators and their work at Ole Miss.
I look forward to seeing my Ole Miss colleagues recognized for their impressive technological innovations that positively affect lives across the state, nation, and world.
Election to NAI fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.
Ole Miss researchers create technologies that have impact in many areas, from health care to the environment to national defense, said Josh Gladden, vice chancellor of research and sponsored programs. Dean Puleos induction into the National Academy of Innovators represents yet another level of recognition for the outstanding research being conducted here.
The 2020 NAI class, which has made a notable impact in a variety of fields, represents 125 research universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutes worldwide. The inductees are named inventors on nearly 4,000 issued U.S. patents.
Puleos inventions provide improvements in the repair and regeneration of tissues, such as bone, cartilage and tendons.
One of his technologies is intended to treat large defects in bone caused by trauma, whether a warfighter injury or a civilian car accident. Polymeric Prodrug (U.S. Patent No. 9,433,638) provides a polymer that is composed of a bone-promoting drug and that can be formed into solid implants or 3D scaffolds.
While the biomaterial slowly degrades following placement in the defect site, the released drug molecules encourage healing of the injury.
A second invention could benefit athletes or even weekend warriors who injure a meniscus, a cartilage-like cushion in the knee joint. Such small tears are typically treated by cutting away free-floating pieces, even though the loss of tissue can lead to arthritis.
Crosslinker Enhanced Repair of Connective Tissues (U.S. Patent No. 10,278,947) describes, among other forms, a patch that releases a chemical that meshes the damaged tissue to restore mobility.
More than 1,000 NAI fellows have generated aome 11,000 licensed technologies and companies, created more than 1.4 million jobs and generated some $190 billion in revenue.
Puleos time in higher education includes 27 years at the University of Kentucky before joining the UM engineering school in 2018. He is a renowned biomedical engineer with research expertise focused on using biomaterials for tissue regeneration in dentistry and orthopedic surgery.
He is a fellow of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. A member of the Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, Puleo received UKs Excellence in Teaching for Biomedical Engineering in 2011, 2013 and 2015 and the Deans Award for Excellence in Research in 2013.
As a researcher in the area of regenerative biomaterials, Puleo has served as principal investigator and co-investigator of federally and privately funded grants and contracts totaling $13.5 million. His research has led to nearly 17 intellectual property disclosures, patent applications and patents, plus a start-up company.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Awards Black & Veatch’s Randy Castro with Top Honor, the Gold de Fleury Medal – Business Wire
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black & Veatch announces that Randy Castro, president of the companys federal business and a retired U.S. Army major general, will be awarded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) highest honor the Gold de Fleury Medal in recognition of his lifetime achievements and significant contributions to Army engineering.
The U.S. Army Chief of Engineers bestows the medal each year upon a person or individuals whose contributions to the Army Engineer Regiment exemplify boldness, courage and commitment to a strong national defense, according to the USACE. Of the four levels of the award steel, bronze, silver and gold gold is the most prestigious.
Prior to joining Black & Veatch in 2018, Castro spent decades in government service, infrastructure development and project management. He served as commanding general of the USACEs South Atlantic and Pacific Ocean divisions, and as commander of the Maneuver Support Center at Missouris Fort Leonard Wood, among other command and leadership functions. He also was former deputy director of the U.S. Department of Defenses Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which confronts challenges involving weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats.
I am deeply humbled to be selected for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gold de Fleury medal, Castro said. The honor of serving with the Engineer Regiment not only gave me the knowledge and experience necessary to build a decades-long career in Army engineering, but it also taught me how critical engineering is to planning and building the resilient, sustainable infrastructure so vital to our future.
The award presentation, originally scheduled in 2020 before being postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, is to be held Nov. 15, in conjunction with the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Federal Small Business Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Order of the de Fleury was established in 1779 in honor of Francois Louis Tesseidre de Fleury, a French engineer who volunteered to serve during the American Revolution. The gold award is bestowed annually to two people one recipient from inside the Engineer Regiment and of national prominence, the other outside the Engineer Regiment.
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About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is an employee-owned global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with a more than 100-year track record of innovation in sustainable infrastructure. Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the lives of people around the world by addressing the resilience and reliability of our most important infrastructure assets. Our revenues in 2020 exceeded US$3.0 billion. Follow us on http://www.bv.com and on social media.
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