Engineering and Applied Science Year in Review 2019

The University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), already known for its popular experiential learning program and world-class research, had quite a year in 2019.

Everything from enrollment and curriculum to co-ops and careers begins and ends with students. And CEAS students accomplished a lot in 2019.

CEAS students did the following in the past year.

• Engineered a flying car.
• Planned drone use for hurricane response.
• Learned from the mousetrap challenge.
• Engineered water solutions in East Africa.
• Created a heating device for people with spinal cord injuries.
• Presented a way to convert plastics to fuel.
• Won an international software competition.
• Placed in international SAE competitions.
• Got their start in the Summer Bridge program.
• Created a prosthetic hand for a 5-year-old.
• Earned recognition from the U.S. Department of Energy.
• Designed and manufactured a butt-brake to help veterans with disabilities return to bike riding.
• Used computer science to see past a disability.
• Touted UC’s co-op program and construction management program on FOX Business.
• Innovated new space management technology.
• Presented research to NASA.
• Won a national award for designing a net-zero energy school.
• Designed and built a winch for a veteran’s scooter.

Faculty in CEAS were busy in laboratories and classrooms, getting plenty of recognition for innovation and excellence.

CEAS faculty accomplished the following in 2019:

• Were named a highly-cited researcher in water treatment.
• Used technology to help people with speech impediments.
• Published a revolutionary design for power plants.
• Safeguarded buildings in post-earthquake fires.
• Helped nations plan for climate change.
• Developed a water demand calculator to drive efficiency.
• Had their sweat research touted by the National Science Foundation.
• Brought a novel approach to quantum mechanics.
• Used wireless technology to heal wounds.
• Received an award to lab-on-a-chip work.
• Inspected additive-manufactured parts with ultrasound waves by freezing them in ice.
• Used visible light to destroy contaminates in water.
• Elected president of the American Society of Engineering Education.
• Created a device that can measure your level of stress.
• Helped roll out the Ohio Cyber Range to advance cybersecurity.
• Won an outstanding paper award to additive manufacturing.
• Discovered that bats bounce sound off leaves to find prey.
• Named department head for chemical and environmental engineering.
• Named department head for civil and architectural engineering and construction management.
• Earned the U.S. Department of Energy’s early career award.
• Further innovated first-year engineering education.
• Used robots to engage area students in science.
• Received the most prestigious mid-career award from the Electrochemical Society.
• Helped the U.S. Navy prepare students for high-tech careers.
• Received a $3.2 million investment in a tech spinoff.
• Launched a national cybersecurity initiative.
• Discovered new applications in medicine and textiles for coaxial electrospinning.
• Were named one of Cincinnati’s 40 under 40.
• Ranked among most-cited researchers by Web of Science.
• Developed satellites that fix other satellites.
• Received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for preventing flood disasters.
• Pioneered a new brain cancer treatment.
• Used jet-engine expertise to develop technology to unblock congested airways in patients.
• Created low-cost 3D printed skull implants.

In addition to student and faculty accomplishments in 2019, CEAS accomplished or was recognized in other ways. UC's College of Engineering and Applied Science:

• Named a national diversity champion.
• Welcomed a new dean.
• Recognized for partnership with GE Aviation.
• Remembered former faculty Neil Armstrong on the 50^th anniversary of the first manned moon landing.
• Helped UC rank No. 3 nationally for cooperative education.
• Named a new director of Women in Engineering.

This review is just a partial list. To read about more CEAS accomplishments in 2019, visit the college’s news page.

Featured image at top: A student in UC's chapter of Engineers without Borders talks with children at a local school in Tanzania. In Roche, the chapter recently built several water distribution lines for a school, serving 1,400 people. Photo/Provided