BME Seminar Series Features Wide-Ranging Expertise
Over the decades, products designed at UAB have moved well beyond the laboratories where they originated, but few have logged the miles that the Polar freezer has.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 launched earlier this year with a GLACIER and two Polar units on board. Engineers from the UAB CBSE design and build the units to provide cold storage for NASA experiments.Designed and produced by engineers in UAB’s Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering (CBSE), Polar provides a freezing and storage unit capable of maintaining temperatures of negative 80°C in order to transport experiments to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
Call it knowledge that will orbit your world.
Polar project manager David Ray, P.E., will present a seminar in Heritage Hall 121 on Friday at 1:25 P.M. on “UAB and the ISS.” The presentation is part of the weekly seminar series presented by the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
MSE Students Take Top Prize at NSF Event
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Siddhartha Brahma and Peter Barfknecht, both doctoral students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, won first place overall in the Ph.D. category at the 2015 NSF Science and Technology Open House.
The event, hosted by the Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), was held in Montgomery on January 30-31, 2015. More than 150 student posters were presented as part of the NSF EPSCOR and related work being done at UAB, Tuskegee, Alabama, South Alabama, Auburn and Alabama State.
Posters were judged in the undergraduate, M.S. and Ph.D. categories.
Brahma and Barfknecht received a $1,000 prize for first place. UAB was represented by several other engineering and physics students.
Five Engineering Students Picked for Clinton Global Initiative University
Five engineering students are among seventeen UAB students who have been selected to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University on March 6-8 at the University of Miami.
The five students—Gaurav Agrawal, Ananya Bandyopadhyay, Sara Liaghati-Mobarhan, Junhi Chang, Abdullah Tarawneh—are all from the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The department had one CGIU participant in 2014, which was the first year UAB participated.
Founded in 2007 by former President Bill Clinton, CGIU engages the next generation of campus leaders to address global issues in the Initiative’s five focus areas: education, environmental and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation, and public health.
“Students from diverse disciplines across our campus have long been involved in international initiatives that stem from our mission of teaching, research and service,” said Suzanne Austin, Ph.D., senior vice provost for Student and Faculty Success. “UAB is proud to work with CGIU to foster students’ ambitious projects that will serve local and international communities. We are very proud of and excited for these 17 outstanding students.”
UAB Selected for NSF-funded Pathways to Innovation Program
Click the image above to enlargeUAB is one of 25 U.S. institutions to be selected by the NSF-funded National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, or Epicenter, to join the Pathways to Innovation Program.
The Pathways to Innovation Program is designed to help institutions fully incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship into undergraduate engineering education. The program is run by Epicenter, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and directed by Stanford University and VentureWell.
“Pathways is a good fit for UAB’s new universitywide entrepreneurial push centered around the UAB Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” said Iwan Alexander, Ph.D., dean of the School of Engineering. “We are committed to bringing experiential learning opportunities to our students and ensure our students are exposed to realistic scenarios so that they can understand what it means to innovate, appreciate the benefits of collaboration, and develop and apply the skills they will need to meet engineering challenges of the 21st century.”
