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BitTitan Appoints Paul Nguyen as Vice President of Product and Engineering for Perspectium – Business Wire
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BitTitan, a global leader in migrations and managed services automation with a family of solutions including MigrationWiz, Voleer and Perspectium, has appointed Paul Nguyen as vice president of product and engineering for Perspectium. A Perspectium co-founder, Nguyen has spent eight years working in computer engineering and software development at the workflow integration company. Nguyens appointment comes following BitTitans acquisition of Perspectium in June. He will be based in BitTitans San Diego office.
In this new role, Nguyen will lead Perspectiums product strategy and development. He will also oversee Perspectiums delivery of efficient and industry-leading cloud software to global enterprises and managed service providers. The recent acquisition by BitTitan means that he will have more resources, partnerships, and distribution methods available to help accelerate further growth of Perspectium.
Im excited about the opportunity to guide the product vision for Perspectium and to continue driving innovation and growth in the synchronization and integration space, Nguyen said. BitTitan and Perspectium are committed to delivering market-leading IT solutions to our partners and customers around the globe. I look forward to continuing to provide leading technology solutions that meet their evolving needs and expanding Perspectiums reach into new geographies and industries.
As a co-founder of Perspectium, Nguyen was integral in the companys evolution over the past eight years, helping it grow into a 75-person organization with its IT solutions reaching customers around the world.
Pauls demonstrated expertise in engineering and software development have made him a truly invaluable asset to BitTitan and Perspectium, said David Loo, chief product officer at BitTitan. "His strong leadership skills and continuous dedication toward advancing IT solutions on a global scale are just what we need as BitTitan and Perspectium begin this next phase of growth.
Prior to Perspectium, Nguyen held a senior engineering role at EMC, which was later acquired by Dell. At EMC, he led global projects in the companys Document Sciences division and focused on creating new technology in the enterprise content management space. In 2002, he earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California San Diego before completing an MBA in entrepreneurial studies from San Diego State University in 2010.
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BitTitan empowers IT service professionals to successfully deploy and manage cloud technologies through its family of software solutions. MigrationWiz is the industry-leading SaaS solution for mailbox, document, public-folder, and Microsoft Teams migrations between a wide range of sources and destinations. Voleer centralizes and automates IT tasks to optimize IT environments, enabling IT service professionals to effectively manage resources, security, data governance, and more. Perspectium eliminates data and process silos with integration solutions for ServiceNow, automating data transfers for analytics, backup and restoration, migrations, archiving, and extending ServiceNow workflows to other vital applications or external service providers.
Since 2009, BitTitan has moved over 25 million users to the cloud for 46,000 customers in 188 countries and supports leading cloud ecosystems including Microsoft, Amazon, Google and ServiceNow, with Perspectium enabling more than 75 billion ServiceNow transactions. The global company has offices in Seattle, San Diego and Singapore. To learn more, visit http://www.BitTitan.com or the BitTitan blog.
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Happy Engineers Day: Five Fun Things That Only Engineering Students Can Relate To – News18
Engineering, a four-year-long (sometimes five) course, is a widely popular professional track that sees a plethora of students interested or forced walk on it to achieve success in their lives. An engineering college is a special place for so many reasons. People entering the premises of an engineering college exit the gates with a collection of memories, lessons, and relationships.
Here are five fun things that you can only experience if youre a student studying in an engineering college:
Lightning-fast Mornings, Snail-like Days
Engineers create marvellous things in their professional careers. But one thing that they cannot create is a schedule. All-nighters are a part of life during college days. Despite the varied number of hours of sleep, students never miss their morning class. It takes an engineering student not more than 5 minutes to cover the journey from the bed to the classs bench.
Hostel Wars and Warriors
College Hostels are a different world altogether. Every hostel has its own motto, own way of living, and individual set of students. Once you become a part of a particular hostel, you become clan warriors whose sole purpose is to save their hostels reputation. Engineering colleges organize multiple inter-hostel competitions that give you a chance to prove your loyalty to the hostel you live in.
Fearing And Not Fearing The Exams At The Same Time
This is one of the most mysterious psychological phenomena that engineering students go through, except the studious ones. During the exam season, there lingers a weird sense of fear in the halls and dorms of the hostel. Nights become more silent than ever. But there comes a critical point for underprepared students when they suddenly stop fearing exams, even though exams are all they can think about. According to us, it is a sense of relief induced by seeing others being equally messed up.
Shattering Deadlines Like A Daredevil
As we have established before, engineering students see all colours of life during their four years of college. It also teaches you how to daringly deal with deadlines. No matter how late you start cutting down your pile of assignments, engineering students magically manage to submit their reports on time, even though what theyve written has come from unexplainable sources.
50 Shades Of Placement
For engineering colleges, it is a season when companies come to hire eligible employees. But for engineering students, it is an emotion. It is the only time when students actually care about building a CV, and some fail lavishly. Humble attempts to hide the splashes of one or more backs with a thick coat of skills is what lies at the crux of the placement season. This is also the time when every moment, bad and good, goes past your eyes in one swift motion.
An Engineering college ensures a mixed-bad of experiences that prepares you for the hardships of the real world. It is like a crash course of life. From the worst to the best moments of life, engineering college is a world that people seldom forget about in the later parts of life.
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Dr Todd Bridges talks about Engineering With Nature practices – Dredging Today
In the summer issue of Terra et Aqua magazine, IADC posted an interesting interview with Dr Todd Bridges, National Lead of the Engineering With Nature initiative.
Dr Todd Bridges is the U.S. Armys Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science. He leads research and applications for the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the areas of sustainable infrastructure and environmental management.
Todd is the National Lead for the USACE Engineering With Nature initiative, which includes a network of research projects, field-scale projects and communication activities to promote sustainable, resilient systems.
He led the focus on Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) within USACEs North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study from 20132015 following Hurricane Sandy and currently leads an international collaboration to develop guidelines on the use of NNBF for coastal and fluvial systems.
Todd is also the Programme Manager for the Dredging Operations Environmental Research programme, one of the Corps largest civil works R&D programmes, where he directs the execution of more than $6 million in research annually.
He has chaired international working groups and guidance development for the United Nations International Maritime Organisation and the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure, where he currently serves as Chairman of the Environmental Commission.
From an early fascination in oceanography, nature has played a defining role in the career of Dr Todd Bridges.
With a decades investment in the Engineering With Nature initiative, he has seen that sustainability and engineering can go hand-in-hand providing economic, environmental and social benefits.
His focus now is to build on that foundation to encourage and facilitate collaboration across sectors, public and private, to advance and accelerate Engineering With Nature practice.
To read the interview with Dr Todd Bridges, please visit the Terra et Aqua webpage.
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Engineering CAR T cells to activate a bodily response to solid tumors | Penn Today – Penn Today
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, which uses engineered T cells to treat certain types of cancers, has often been a challenging approach to treating solid tumors. CAR T cells need to recognize a specific target on cancer cells to kill them. However, cancer cells do not always have the target, or they find ways to hide the target and stay invisible to CAR T cell attack. A new study from Penn Medicine, published in Cell, demonstrates that RN7SL1, a naturally occurring RNA, can activate the bodys own natural T cells to seek out the cancer cells that have escaped recognition by CAR T cells. This may help improve efforts to treat solid tumors, which represent most human cancers.
CAR T cells typically are like lone soldiers without backup. However, if given the right tools, they can kickstart the bodys own immune system and give them help against the cancer cells missed with CAR T cells alone, says co-lead author Andy J. Minn, a professor of radiation oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine and director of the Mark Foundation Center for Immunotherapy, Immune Signaling, and Radiation at Penn.
The first tool is an endogenous RNA, or RNA originating from the bodys own cells, called RN7SL1. However, when delivered to a tumor by CAR T cells, RN7SL1 mimics a viral RNA. Just like after a virus infection, an arm of the bodys immune system called innate immune cells wakes up after seeing RN7SL1 delivered by CAR T cells. These innate immune cells can now function to stimulate the bodys T cells, mobilizing them to join the attack on cancer. However, as with CAR T cells, the bodys natural T cells also need a target on cancer cells to recognize and attack. Therefore, the second tool provided by the CAR T cells are foreign antigens, which get painted on the surface of cancer cells, essentially marking them for killing by the natural T cells.
This story is by Caren Begun. Read more at Penn Medicine News.
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North Korea Just Fired Its First Nuclear Cruise Missiles With Range to Hit Japan – Interesting Engineering
Relations between the U.S. and Asia are becoming complicated.
North Korea successfully test-fired a new variant of a long-range cruise missile in its attempt to build a new system capable of launching nuclear strikes against not only South Korea, but also Japan, according to an initial report from Time Magazine.
And, unlike ballistic missiles which arc high into the atmosphere, North Korea's new cruise missiles could potentially evade detection long enough to prevent an adequate response from nearby nations.
The new missiles from North Korea flew in "pattern-8 flight orbits" for more than two hours on both Saturday and Sunday, soaring roughly 930 miles (1,500 km) over both land and the sea off the coast before smashing into targets, according to a Monday report from the country's Central News Agency. This is significant because, if this range is accurate, then North Korea can now strike most of Japan. Additionally, the KCNA, North Korea's state news service, said the new missile was a "strategic weapon of great significance."
While still unconfirmed, if North Korea really does have long-range cruise missiles, this would be its first since firing two short-range ballistic missiles in March of this year. These launches were declared to the world while Sung Kim, the U.S. President Joe Biden's nuclear envoy, was en route to Asia to engage in talks with Japanese and South Korean counterparts designed to bring Pyongyang's government away from mounting tensions, and toward continued disarmament talks. In July, the U.N. said North Korea had resumed its plutonium production in its Yongbyon nuclear facility. While ballistic missiles can reach much farther targets than Japan is from North Korea, they also fly in a highly-arched trajectory, use no power for descent, and are thus remarkably easier to spot, prepare for via localized evacuations, and possibly even respond to with a nuclear counterattack before they even strike their targets.
By contrast, cruise missiles are powered for their entire flight, are more maneuverable, and stick significantly closer to the surface, and so won't offer as clear of a warning to potentially targeted populations, militaries, or governments. Cruise missile's capacity to fly "under the radar" and bypass defense systems are in line with Kim's aim to deter U.S.-led attacks, according to Director Jeffrey Lewis of the East Asia nonproliferation program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, in Monterey. "North Korea's war plan is to preemptively strike U.S. forces in South Korea and Japan if an invasion appears imminent," said Lewis in the Time report. "Cruise missiles offer significant advantages in terms of surprise, penetration of defenses and accuracy."
On the basis of pure speculation, should conflict erupt between China and the U.S., with North Korea siding with China against the U.S. and its allies, Pyongyang could use the threat of a cruise missile attack on Japan to keep one of the strongest American strongholds in Asia out of that conflict. But there's no telling what strategies either side of a hypothetical conflict would take. "We are aware of reports of DPRK cruise missile launches," said U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in the Time report. "We will continue to monitor the situation and are consulting closely with our allies and partners," they added, referring to North Korea by its formal, acronymic name. Time will tell whether reports of cruise missile launches are confirmed, but while tensions mount between the U.S. and China, a historically hostile nation developing new nuclear weapons systems could add complexity to an already chaotic situation.
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Ramsetu In Engineering And More In Revised Curriculum Of Madhya Pradesh – NDTV
State Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav reading "Ramcharitmanas" of Tulsidas
"Ramcharitmanas" of Tulsidas will be part of the curriculum for undergraduate students in Madhya Pradesh and students of engineering will have to learn about Ramsetu -- which many in the right wing considers a feat of engineering. For medical stream, students will be offered the option of studying medicine in Hindi.
"We are going to form a committee at the earliest to ensure that medical education courses are prepared in Hindi as well. In the near future, we will start medical studies in Hindi too," said the state's Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang.
On the recommendation of the syllabus committee for higher education, "Ramcharit Manas Ke Vyavharik Darshan" (Applied philosophy of Ramcharitmanas) has been introduced as an elective course for first-year BA students from the academic session of 2021-22.
This will have a 100-mark question paper and include topics such as "Spirituality and religion in root sources of Indian culture", "Four ages in Vedas, Upanishads and Purans", "Difference between Ramayana and Shri Ramcharitmans" and "Incarnation of divine existence".
In the foundation course for English, a preface to Mahabharata by C Rajagopalchari will be taught to first-year students -- the objective, according to the order, is to help students develop "leadership ability and humanistic attitude by focusing on various dimensions of personality development".
There is also a proposal to include the biographies of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder Dr KB Hedgewar, Bharatiya Jan Sangh chief Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and Dr BR Ambedkar among other leaders as part of the first-year foundation course in medicine to instill social and medical ethics in students.
Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav said the changes were meant to "bring our glorious past to the fore". The syllabus is being implemented "on recommendation of scholars", he added, countering Congress allegations of "saffronisation of education".
"It has been proved by a NASA study that Ram Setu was a man-made bridge built millions of years ago," he said.
Congress leader Arif Masood told reporters that it would have been better if the BJP government had added Guru Granth Sahib, Quran and Bible along with Ramcharitmanas. "Children will get more information and the spirit of the country's constitution will also be fulfilled," he said.
Madhya Pradesh made an effort towards having a Hindi curriculum for higher studies earlier. In 2011, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University was established in the state for engineering and medical education in Hindi.
But even after 10 years, it has made no headway. The engineering stream was discontinued in 2018 in absence of adequate faculty, translated syllabus, books and students. Medical studies in Hindi have not been started till date.
By way of students, the university has eight peons and two drivers; 74 departments are being handled by 29 teachers -- all guest faculty. No recruitment has taken place in the last 10 years.
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New engineering and environmental studies facilities will support innovative research that benefits society – Princeton University
From addressing climate change to developing newways of delivering vaccines, Princetons proposed engineering and environmental studies project will enable breakthrough teaching and research in the service of humanity while enhancing the public experience of the surrounding neighborhood.
The University plans to build a new home for Environmental Studies (ES) and the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) between Ivy Lane and Prospect Avenue. The four buildings environmental science, bioengineering, chemical and biological engineering, and an engineering commons will create a new ES + SEAS neighborhood carefully integrated into the surrounding landscape with strong connections to outdoor spaces.
The buildings will include state-of-the-art teaching, research and collaboration facilities for seven academic departments, institutes and centers.
The four buildings environmental science, bioengineering, chemical and biological engineering, and an engineering commons will create a new ES + SEAS neighborhood carefully integrated into the surrounding landscape with strong connections to outdoor spaces. This rendering shows an aerial view of the proposed buildings, which will create a neighborhood that more closely connects engineering and environmental studies with the rest of campus to foster collaboration with the natural sciences, humanities, public policy and other disciplines.
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SEAS Dean Andrea Goldsmith said the new facilities are essential to conducting research that has tremendous benefits to human health and society including work addressing climate change and carbon sequestration, new pharmaceuticals and vaccines, better processes for the production of new materials, and greater energy efficiency. The new buildings also will further environmental science studies that are crucial to learning about and mitigating global challenges related to biodiversity, conservation, climate, energy, and environmental policy.
We are at a point where the current facilities for engineering are 60 years old. They are no longer sufficient to do the groundbreaking research that we want to accomplish, said Goldsmith, the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering. The reason that Princeton Engineering needs to grow is that engineering has changed. In the last decades, engineering has become much more interdisciplinary. It is solving much more complex problems that require a broader set of expertise, of disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise.
Goldsmith said that the neighborhoods central location is critical to convene expertise across the sciences, humanities and public policy. All the richness of ideas we need to solve the problems we face. This project is really about maximizing our impact and delivering on Princeton's motto to benefit humanity, through engineering and technology," she added.
The project reflects the importance of environmental studies and engineering in a 21st century liberal arts university. The buildings will create a neighborhood that more closely connects engineering and environmental studies with the rest of the Universitys campus, including the new home for the Department of Computer Science.
The location of the building, really, is at the intersection of the sciences, engineering, public policy and the humanities, said Lars Hedin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology. It's designed to be a magnet for bringing these groups together. And this will kind of be the cauldron of forging new fields, new ideas and new interactions. Hedin is chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a professor in the High Meadows Environmental Institute.
The proximity of key collaborators in different departments also amplifies connections between the growing fields of bioengineering, data science and environmental research and creates a center of gravity for convening diverse experts and innovators across and beyond the University to address critical societal needs.
It is really designed around connectivity," said University Architect Ronald McCoy. The new buildings, all connected underground in one continuous sequence, will maintain distinct identities for disciplines while allowing for strong connections among them.
When we spoke to the faculty they were really clear: 'We need better space and we need more of it.' These are state-of-the-art, flexible, and highly functional teaching and research spaces, McCoy said.
Athanassios (Thanos) Panagiotopoulos, chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, said the new teaching, research, lab and collaboration spaces are absolutely critical to the mission of the University to serve society by addressing urgent needs.
Our departments work is about mitigating climate change, creating new chemical processes that will allow us to replace fossil fuels with renewables, and giving us the tools to address public health and wellbeing, said Panagiotopoulos, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. The technologies that enable the Covid vaccines to become quickly, widely and safely available -- the ability to protect those tiny mRNA packages uses technology that chemical engineers have developed.
Director of the Princeton Bioengineering Initiative Cliff Brangwynne said the ES + SEAS project will help support cutting edge research for the future.
If you ask people what are the important areas for the 21st century? it's clearly computational work, computer science and biological engineering. These are the things that are going to transform society, said Brangwynne, who is also the June K. Wu 92 Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemical and biological engineering. Right now, we're in the middle of a pandemic. That is the kind of challenge faced by society that requires cutting-edge research at the interface of biology and engineering [such as the COVID-19 vaccine technology]. And, in order to achieve our goals on this front, we need to recruit top-notch researchers. That is going to be impossible without the infrastructure to attract these researchers.
The ES + SEAS project is also a model of the Universitys sustainability ethos. The complex meets or exceeds Princeton sustainability standards and will seek LEED certification. It will feature geo-exchange heating and cooling, a green roof, high performance exteriors, rainwater harvesting and sustainable materials.
The design also reflects the Universitys strong commitment to being a steward of buildings and landscapes while pursuing critical opportunities for innovation, creativity and benefit to society.
The buildings will be terraced into the hillside between Prospect Avenue and Ivy Lane currently occupied by faculty and staff housing and parking lots behind eating club buildings. As part of the projects careful, thoughtful planning and design process, the University is planning to relocate the Office of the Dean for Research building at 91 Prospect Avenue to across the street, allowing for it to remain part of a vibrant Prospect Avenue.
The neighborhood will include sunken courtyards and extensive pedestrian paths and outdoor spaces for the public and community. The complex also includes public display spaces for interaction with school groups and the community, as well as lecture halls for public outreach and engagement.
This architects rendering shows the Prospect Avenue entry of the proposed ES + SEAS neighborhood. The ES + SEAS project is also a model of the Universitys sustainability ethos and sustainable building standards.
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Day in the Life: An Electrical and Computer Engineering Major – Campus Times
A Day in the Life is a new Campus Times series highlighting the studies and lives of UR students. Answers have been lightly edited for grammar, clarity, and/or style.
Tenzi Zhuoga is a junior majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
A Typical Wednesday:
Why Electrical and Computer Engineering?
Its actually kind of a funny reason. I really disliked chemistry and biology, so I went with the only engineering major that didnt require them, and that was ECE. It was something I had never really tried before in high school, and I was curious. I did know I wanted to go into engineering, because I liked to make stuff and be creative, but I didnt know exactly what kind of engineering. My first year was my first introduction to ECE. When I started to take ECE classes, rather than calculus, physics, the pre-requisites, I started to realize it was something I never really learned before, and I enjoyed that aspect of it, so I stuck with it. I feel like theres a lot left for me to learn in ECE, so that I will never get tired of it.
What is your favorite thing about Electrical and Computer Engineering?
I guess how diverse it can be in what I can do in the future. I can do more programming-based ECE or do hardwarereally, the possibilities are endless. I like that I have a lot of options in how I apply it.
What are your favorite classes?
Currently Im taking ECE 216: Mechatronics and Embedded Systems. In the labs you work on computer chips, and its a hands-on kind of class which I really enjoy. It feels like Im learning something thats not just theory based. Ive also enjoyed [] a class called ECE 112: Logic Design. It was something new that I had never tried before, and I found that pretty interesting and exciting.
What is challenging about Electrical and Computer Engineering?
Definitely its the learning curve, because I feel like in the beginning, you really just dont know anything. And then they start introducing all these topics that youve never even heard about before. I still feel like I dont know whats going on in class. But also, thats just how engineering works I guess. How anything works, really. You never really know until you start.
What is something you want people to know about Electrical and Computer Engineering?
Dont be afraid to try it. I would like to see a lot more girls in the class. I remember my first year, in ECE 101, I was the only girl in my class. It was kind of daunting, but I would love to see more girls try it in the future.
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Okta Hires Google VP of Engineering as President of Technology and CTO – Datamation
SAN FRANCISCO Okta is turning to a long-time Google executive to leadstrategic planning for product development and its engineering and business technology teams.
Okta hired Sagnik Nandy as its president of technology and CTO, according to the company, the maker of identity management software, last month.
Nandy will join Oktas executive management team and report directly to Todd McKinnon, co-founder and CEO.
The 15-year Google veteran built a reputation for effectively leading development teams and delivering engineering solutions at scale.
Most recently, Nandy served as VP of engineering at Mountain View-based Google, overseeing several critical components of the companys core advertising business and the backbone of its revenue and growth.
Previously, he helped build Googles measurement and analytics offerings, taking several products from inception to market leaders.
Nandy has also held other senior leadership roles at Google, working in enterprise technology development and design.
He holds a B.E. from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in India and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of California San Diego.
Okas identity management software for employees and customers is used by over 13,000 organizations.
Through the Okta Integration Network (OIN), over 7,000 applications are integrated with the Okta platform.
With Sagnik at the helm of our technology team, were deepening our investment and further asserting the importance of identity, McKinnon said.
As an engineer at heart and by trade, I have a special appreciation for Sagniks impressive background and depth across enterprise software development, cloud infrastructure, and business-critical systems.
Beyond his technical expertise, hes a strong team builder and understands the importance of people and culture.
Nandy said identity is the most important and powerful component of an organizations technology and security strategy.
Okta occupies the critical position as the gateway to digitization for companies large and small across the globe, and the opportunity this creates is tremendous.
Im excited to build on Oktas already strong foundation and lead the talented team responsible for the future of development and innovation at the company.
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Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering to celebrate 10th anniversary with two days of public science talks – UChicago News
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago is celebrating its 10th anniversary with two days of events open to researchers and the public that highlight the schools ongoing mission to develop new solutions for pressing global challenges.
These include an alumni and industry day on Sept. 17 and a scientific conference on Sept. 18. Events will be streamed from the David Rubenstein Forum at UChicago, and members of the public are invited to watch live by registering at PMEs 10th anniversary website.
The programs include presentations from industry leaders, faculty and other academic experts, as well as panel discussions, fireside chats with industry leaders and talks from PME alumni now in research positions around the world.
Topics include the impact of engineering on society and the role of universities in innovation, as well as recent breakthroughs in quantum science, immunoengineering, and materials for sustainability and health.
Featured speakers and panelists include Nobel Prize laureates Frances Arnold, Bernard L. Feringa and William D. Philips; Vanessa Chan, the U.S. Department of Energys chief commercialization officer; David Axelrod, founder and director of the Institute of Politics at UChicago; France A. Crdova, president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance and former director of the National Science Foundation; and many others.
Pritzker Molecular Engineering was founded in 2011 as the Institute for Molecular Engineering. It was charged with developing a new kind of engineering program that would transcend traditional boundaries and focus on societal problems primed for new solutions. In 2019, in recognition of the success of the program and with the support of the Pritzker Foundation, the institute was elevated to the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineeringthe first school in the nation dedicated to molecular engineering.
PME has grown rapidly in scope and size since its founding, developing programs in areas such as quantum engineering, immunoengineering, advanced materials, energy storage, and ensuring a clean global water supply. View a timeline here.
In collaboration with partners like Argonne National Laboratory, PME has tackled pressing issues with advances like the purification of water using solar energy, converting carbon dioxide into useful fuel, immunotherapy-based approaches to cancer, innovative nano-traps to destroy viruses in the body, and the launch of one of the longest quantum testbeds in the nation.
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