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Photo of two men in a lab with one holding a lightbulb. Caption: Yuji Zhao (left), an electrical engineering professor in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and Houqiang Fu (right), a doctoral student in Zhao’s research group, hold an LED light bulb. Zhao and Fu are authors on a paper recently published in a leading photonics journal highlighting the theoretical limits and future directions for light-emitting diode technology. Photo courtesy of Yuji Zhao

ASU Bisgrove Scholar illuminates the future of LED lighting

April 27, 2018
Light-emitting diode research by Yuji Zhao outlines the theoretical limits of efficiency and expands LED use to wireless communications and medical applications.
photo of 10 students in maroon and gold shirts holding a trophy. Caption: The Fulton Schools Maroon and Gold teams celebrate together after the Maroon team won the 2018 ASU Academic Bowl title. Photographer: Cortney Loui/ASU

Classmates battle for title as Fulton Schools team wins Academic Bowl

April 26, 2018
Started in 2006 as a showcase for the broad intellectual talent and school spirit of the ASU student body, the Academic Bowl pits 16 teams from various colleges at ASU against each other in a trivia competition.
photo of girl holding items. Caption: Civil engineering student Emily Alcazar worked to advance the current state of 3D-printed concrete in Professor Narayanan Neithalath’s lab for a future of faster, cheaper and cleaner construction. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

Student research highlighted at FURI Symposium

April 24, 2018
Sharing research and ideas at the FURI Symposium is part of the experience for more than 200 students who presented their research.
Photo of two people standing next to each other. Caption: Father and son duo Doug and Brent Kolste graduate together in May 2018, when online student Doug Kolste will fly to Arizona for the ceremony. Photo courtesy of Kolste family

A family that learns together, earns together

April 23, 2018
A father and son graduate together with bachelor's degrees from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, achieving a long-time educational aspiration.
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World Creativity & Innovation Day

April 20, 2018
The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering are diligently pursuing the discoveries and technological solutions that are profoundly changing the ways students learn and interact with the world around us.
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ASU engineers jump into national effort to advance AI computing 

April 18, 2018
Three electrical engineering professors in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering will be joining leading faculty from the nation’s top engineering schools in prestigious new research centers that will lay the foundation for technological innovation in the next decade.
Photo of two people in a canoe. Caption: Tempe Town Lake near the Arizona State University campus was the site of the concrete canoe contest, a signature event in the American Society of Civil Engineers annual student competition. Pictured are two ASU students steering their team’s canoe, named “Bullet Bill.” Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Civil engineering students compete and connect at ASCE Pacific Southwest Conference

April 17, 2018

For the first time in almost two decades, the American Society of Civil Engineers Pacific Southwest Conference competitions came to Arizona State University April 12 to 14 bringing about 1,500 students from 18 universities in California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona to ASU’s main campus.
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Will nature-inspired soft robots spark the next tech revolution?

April 16, 2018

Harvard University Professor George M. Whitesides spoke to ASU students and faculty about how simple, soft robots can forge a new path for robotics technologies.
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Honoring outstanding contributors to construction and civil engineering

April 13, 2018

On March 2, 2018, the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment hosted their annual Academy of Distinguished Alumni and Hall of Fame awards ceremony and dinner.
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Photo of three people with Stephen Hawking. Caption: Famous physicist Stephen Hawking (foreground), disabled by neuromuscular disease, depended on scientists and engineers who developed the technologies that enabled him to overcome the loss of speech. Speech synthesis and acoustics experts who helped him included (from left behind Hawking) ASU alum Michael Deisher, the late Edward Brucket and Corine Bickley, pictured here in 2005. Photograph courtesy of Michael Deisher.

Giving voice to genius: Helping Hawking speak

April 12, 2018

Skills that an Intel engineer first developed as an ASU graduate student helped to give science luminary Stephen Hawking vital communication tools.
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Award-winning cybersecurity startup springs from ASU research

April 6, 2018

Computer science, artificial intelligence and social sciences combine in a startup venture to build defenses against nefarious forces on the dark web.
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ASU secures grant to train teachers in STEM subjects

April 5, 2018

The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, a new initiative funded by the National Science Foundation and awarded to Arizona State University, recruits and prepares highly effective elementary and secondary science and mathematics teachers for high-need local schools.
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Photo of three girls around a pink pool with foli boats. Caption: At GEAR Day, Girl Scout Juniors planned, designed and built boats made of aluminum foil with the help of members from ASU’s Society of Women Engineers. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Inspiring the next generation of female engineers at ASU

April 4, 2018

Nearly 100 Girl Scouts learned what it’s like being an engineer from students in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at GEAR Day.
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Photo of two men holding a certificate. Caption: Lead writer Chaitanya Kale accepts the Light Metals Division Magnesium Technology Award at the 147th Annual TMS Meeting for Best Student Paper. Photo courtesy of Chaitanya Kale.

Student paper pioneers research on promising alloy

April 2, 2018

MultiPhysics Lab graduate students won Best Student Paper for research on unique behavior in lightweight material from The Materials, Metals and Minerals Society.
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