January 12, 2024

The Cincinnati Enquirer highlighted two University of Cincinnati alumni and their most recent business venture. Chase Whitehead, UC mechanical engineering ’12 and Brandon Cress, UC industrial design ’05, are former bearcats turned business partners. The two opened their first Clean Eatz location in 2021. Clean Eatz is a café restaurant that provides healthy dine-in, grab ‘n’ go, and weekly meals to customers. The mission of the company is to promote personal wellness, something Whitehead values greatly.

November 26, 2024

Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering Amanda Webb has dedicated much of her research efforts to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from existing buildings. To encourage others in her field to think about decarbonization in their own work, she decided to make a game out of her workshop at the ASHRAE conference.

November 22, 2024

As a high school student, Minha Raza was determined to pursue a degree in the medical field after graduation. However, after taking the introductory Engineering Design Thinking course her first year at the University of Cincinnati, she found an untapped passion for engineering and problem solving. She switched her major to computer science and is now leading a student group and attending conferences in her field.

September 9, 2024

During her time as a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, Devika Chauhan, PhD played a vital role in elevating UC's cutting-edge research on carbon nanotube synthesis and its state-of-the-art applications. Now employed by Intel, she applies the knowledge from her graduate experience at UC to develop future artificial intelligence (AI) chips.

September 4, 2024

The University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science established the Undergraduate Research Fellowship Co-op Program to expand opportunities for students to engage in meaningful research in labs. Most students spend five semesters working in industry through the cooperative education (co-op) program, but students can also choose research positions in corporate, university, or government labs. Many students opt for a research co-op if they are considering a career in research or plan to attend graduate or medical school.

September 18, 2024

University of Cincinnati PhD student Maulee Sheth has been named Graduate Student Engineer of the Month by the College of Engineering and Applied Science. A biomedical engineering student, she works in the Esfandiari lab on cancer tumor microenvironment research to better understand the disease. Through her time here, she has collaborated with researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the UC College of Medicine.

September 5, 2024

University of Cincinnati engineering students have partnered with a local sustainability organization, Faith Communities Go Green, to improve energy efficiency in a Cincinnati church. Civil and architectural engineering students are using the data gathered from an energy audit to transform energy use in the church. This project is funded by ASHRAE, a global society of heating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning engineers.

June 21, 2024

Katelin “Katie” Weitzel was first drawn to the University of Cincinnati by the esteemed College of Engineering and Applied Science, but her decision was solidified by the groundbreaking work of Dr. Dionysios Dionysiou in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Weitzel’s interest in water treatment came from growing up in Michigan and witnessing firsthand the impact of a water crisis. During her time at UC she has been awarded the Rindsberg Fellowship, a Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry, and recently was named Graduate Student Engineer of the Month by CEAS.

June 12, 2024

The University of Cincinnati has hundreds of student organizations, dozens of which are majority engineering students. This spring, the UC Aerocats flew two aircraft iin the annual Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Aero Design competition.

June 4, 2024

The city of Cincinnati has a goal of being carbon neutral by the year 2050. Amanda Webb, assistant professor of architectural engineering at the University of Cincinnati, is making strides to bring this to fruition. She has received three major awards from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy to reduce carbon emissions.