In 2020, University of Oklahoma engineer Amy McGovern, Ph.D., applied for a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography. In May of that same year, she was notified that the University of Oklahoma was awarded the grant and that she would be named its director.
Over 800 high school students and educators from across the state recently attended the 111th Engineering Open House hosted by the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma and sponsored by OG&E.
More than 500,000 people in the United States undergo yearly rehabilitation following a stroke or brain injury. Movement impairments following a stroke are a major cause of adult disability in the U.S. Currently, routine treatments are not optimized for individual patient needs.
As the world transitions toward more renewable energy resources and deals with the consequences of a changing climate, the resiliency of energy infrastructure are becoming ever more urgent. University of Oklahoma researcher Paul Moses, Ph.D., has received a Faculty Early CAREER Development award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how chaotic grid disturbances from events like solar storms impact energy infrastructure.
Understanding energy use and its impact on the sustainability of the electrical grid is critical to accelerating the reduction of global carbon emissions. University of Oklahoma researcher Jie Cai, Ph.D., has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award, known as a CAREER award, from the National Science Foundation to better understand the interplay of an individual’s financial and environmental goals in shaping their energy use behaviors.
Qinggong Tang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, has received a prestigious CAREER award through the Faculty Early Career Development Program of the National Science Foundation. The five-year project will develop novel endoscopic optical imaging techniques to provide real-time visualizations to improve clinicians’ ability to successfully administer needle-based medical interventions.
Jay W. McDaniel, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher in the Advanced Radar Research Center at the University of Oklahoma, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program, known as a CAREER award, from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs.
More than 500,000 people in the United States undergo yearly rehabilitation following a stroke or brain injury. Movement impairments following a stroke are a major cause of adult disability in the U.S. Currently, routine treatments are not optimized for individual patient needs.
As the world transitions toward more renewable energy resources and deals with the consequences of a changing climate, the resiliency of energy infrastructure are becoming ever more urgent. University of Oklahoma researcher Paul Moses, Ph.D., has received a Faculty Early CAREER Development award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how chaotic grid disturbances from events like solar storms impact energy infrastructure.
Understanding energy use and its impact on the sustainability of the electrical grid is critical to accelerating the reduction of global carbon emissions. University of Oklahoma researcher Jie Cai, Ph.D., has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award, known as a CAREER award, from the National Science Foundation to better understand the interplay of an individual’s financial and environmental goals in shaping their energy use behaviors.
Qinggong Tang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, has received a prestigious CAREER award through the Faculty Early Career Development Program of the National Science Foundation. The five-year project will develop novel endoscopic optical imaging techniques to provide real-time visualizations to improve clinicians’ ability to successfully administer needle-based medical interventions.
Jay W. McDaniel, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher in the Advanced Radar Research Center at the University of Oklahoma, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program, known as a CAREER award, from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs.
Abrupt weather extremes, changing climate and frequent natural hazards such as floods and droughts create challenges for our nation’s aging reservoir systems. Tiantian Yang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation to help mitigate these problems.
Ten Gallogly College of Engineering students at the University of Oklahoma were selected to receive Engineering Dissertation Awards, a $5,000 award created to encourage doctoral students to graduate with excellence. The award helps scholars near completion of their Ph.D., says Zahed Siddique, the college’s associate dean for research who heads the committee.
In January, over 80 people gathered for the 2023 Sustainability Forum at the University of Oklahoma to identify ways to overcome current technological hurdles, maintain a diverse, inclusive, and equitable society and ultimately achieve a better, more sustainable world.
Under the direction of University of Oklahoma engineer Chung-Hao Lee, Ph.D., a five-year research project will lead to designing a device that can be customized to better treat unique aneurysms, the irregular bulge in blood vessels that can be deadly.
It may be a small piece of a massive aircraft, but the B-1B lower rudder is essential. The B-1B Lancer aircraft became operational for use in 1986, and sustaining it well into this decade is vital to Air Force operational readiness. The lower rudder is an integral part of a split rudder control system that provides structural support and control as the aircraft flies at high speeds. However, the current manufacturing process for the lower rudder piece is complex and expensive.
In November, Randa Shehab, Ph.D., senior associate dean for the Gallogly College of Engineering and co-coordinator for the Data Science and Analytics Institute at the University of Oklahoma, was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. She was among 11 statewide honored as part of the 2022 Hall of Fame Class.
In fall 2022, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation recognized University of Oklahoma students Cora DeFrancesco and Mulan Tang, who were among 68 undergraduate students selected as Astronaut Scholars.
The University of Oklahoma has received a $3.5 million gift from OU alumnus Michael Turner to support the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering. Turner’s generous gift will fund the addition of cutting-edge equipment, positioning the school to recruit talented faculty and enhance its research impact.
University of Oklahoma biomedical engineer Yuan Yang, Ph.D., has received nearly $2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association to examine the impact of strokes and the movement impairments suffered by stroke patients. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the United States and a major cause of serious disability for adults. With more than 7 million stroke survivors in the United States, strokes are disrupting lives at a rate of one stroke every 40 seconds, Yang says.
University of Oklahoma engineer Li Song, Ph.D., never imagined her research would occur in a 1940’s bungalow. Only on the market since 2017, Song thought that smart thermostats – Wi-Fi thermostats – showed the potential for further investigation. She noticed hundreds of computer scientists were collecting data about smart thermostat usage, but few were studying their actual physical systems.
Through a Department of Energy-funded project, University of Oklahoma engineers have developed a low-cost, field installable retrofit kit to reduce emissions and enhance the performance of integral reciprocating compressors used in the production, gathering, transmission and processing of natural gas.
A research project aims to develop better ways to locate hidden wireless devices, develop countermeasures against unauthorized voice or motion detection, and create techniques to safeguard user privacy against unauthorized monitoring from such devices.
Current methods to regenerate injured cartilage produce tissue that can break down. This deterioration can eventually lead to osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis that affects more than 32.5 million adults in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An engineering researcher at the University of Oklahoma is part of a National Science Foundation project addressing the logistical challenges of maintaining cryogenic temperatures for Messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules, a molecule that allows human cells to recognize and protect against infectious diseases.
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Researcher at OU developing app to detect hidden cameras
November 14, 2022
The assistant professor behind the research said his app will be able to not just let you know you’re being recorded but it will be able to pinpoint the camera’s location
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Research at OU could cut surgery time in half for patients with traumatic brain injuries
July 06, 2022
Victims of traumatic brain injury could have their surgery time cut in half, thanks to research in the works at the University of Oklahoma.
Achievers: OU biomedical engineering student receives award
April 13, 2022
A University of Oklahoma engineering student has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
