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The Hill Engineering Research & Development
Center INNOVATIONS IN ENERGY
Another New Facility for Greater DiscoveryThere’s powerful energy discovery taking place in the newly dedicated Hill
Engineering Research & Development Center at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. The building, featured in Architect Magazine, was designed and built by students in KU’s Studio 804 to mirror the sustainability projects within. Visit: http://bit.ly/15jEx3T
Associate Prof. Chris Depcik and the student research program, KU EcoHawks, develop innovative sustainable energy solutions for transportation and infrastructure. Depcik’s article “Review of organic Rankine cycles for internal combustion engine exhaust waste heat recovery” is among the most downloaded publications in Elsevier’s journals of Mechanical Engineering during the first half of 2013.
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we’re CHANGING
what you know OF THE WORLD.
Image courtesy of NASA
Radars that Deliver ResultsThe NSF-funded Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, led by
Distinguished Professor Prasad Gogineni at the University of Kansas, is changing what everyone thought they knew of the world.
With innovative ice-penetrating radars, the center’s engineers and researchers are providing data that measure the thickness and characteristics of earth’s polar ice sheets as well as conditions of the bedrock. Their data have enabled researchers around the world to map never before seen views of Antarctica and Greenland – including the Greenland Mega Canyon chronicled in the journal Science – while they work to predict changes to polar ice and its impact on global sea level.
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the POWER of 10
Expanding the Faculty as We Grow the SchoolWe just added a new dean and 10 extra faculty members, and we’re
expanding with a dozen additional searches this year.
More and more students are choosing the KU School of Engineering for the outstanding experience they receive in our classrooms and laboratories. And we’re responding by giving them access to great teachers and great researchers in fields that drive economic growth in Kansas, the Midwest and our nation.
The expansion is part of the school’s Building on Excellence Initiative that drives growth in faculty, facilities, discovery and enrollment.
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“One of the greatest challenges facing the chemical industry is to develop sustainable manufacturing processes that eliminate the use of hazardous materials, minimize waste, conserve resources and improve safety.”
— Distinguished Prof. Bala Subramaniam
CLOSING the gap Cleaner Processes for a Better WorldThe NSF and EPA awarded $4.4 million to researchers at the Center
of Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC), headquartered at the University of Kansas. This grant through the Networks for Sustainable Molecular Design and Synthesis Program will help faculty and students work closely with industry as they advance discoveries into safer manufacturing processes that are environmentally and economically superior.
Since its inception in 2003, CEBC – led by Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Bala Subramaniam – has garnered more than $35 million in federal and industry research funding, disclosed 35 inventions and has been awarded 7 patents.
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NSF MRI in COMPUTING for advancing
LIFE SCIENCES
NSF’s MRI Grant Will Boost KU’s Life Sciences Computing Power
A $500,000 NSF MRI grant to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Jun “Luke” Huan and $200,000 in matching funds will deliver additional resources to accelerate data analysis and computer modeling for KU’s world-renowned researchers in genetics, chemistry, engineering, biophysics, ecology, evolutionary biology, materials research and pharmaceutical sciences.
KU’s recently renovated Advanced Computing Facility, funded through a 2010 $4.7 million NIH grant to Huan, will house the new hardware. Huan directs the bioinformatics and computational life sciences laboratory at KU’s Information and Telecommunication Technology Center.
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Office of the Dean1520 W. 15th St., Eaton Hall, Room 1Lawrence, KS 66045
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Michael S. Branicky, Sc.D.Dean of Engineering
Arvin Agah, Ph.D.Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs
