Engineering FYI, Part II, May 2010

The University of Delaware has announced that four engineering students have received National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships.

Two of the students are Tau Beta Pi members. Both Scott Crown, PA E ’08, and Vassili Vorotnikov, NE A ’09, are chemical engineering graduate students.

Crown is “conducting research aimed at improving our understanding of metabolic pathway regulation to enable manipulation of the obese and diabetic phenotypes.” Vorotnikov’s “work focuses on multiscale modeling of catalyst nanoparticles applied to specific reaction networks.” Read the full news release

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The University of Colorado is in the process of building a new research facility for biotechnology. The Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building is scheduled to open in November of 2011.

CU hopes the building will create jobs and has announced that faculty from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering will also move into the new building.

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A new solar map of California was presented this week at the American Solar Energy Society’s conference in Arizona. Read article

A professor and graduate student from UC San Diego presented the map, which can be viewed via Google Earth, for free.

Using ground data the map helps predict “how much radiation and energy are generated in regions through the state” of California. This can help determine the best locations for solar power systems.

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