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- Accelerator supercomputers dominate Green500 List's Top 10Mackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-12-03)
Accelerator-based supercomputers hold eight of the top 10 spots on The Green500 List, released today.
- Aerojet donates $50,000 to support Virginia Tech student team's Scramjet design projectMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-10-23)Aerojet Corp. has donated $50,000 to support the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Hy-V Scramjet launch student design team.
- Ali Butt helps spearhead National Academy of Engineering's U.S. Frontiers symposiumMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-09-23)
Ali Butt, an assistant professor with the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech's computer science department, is helping spearhead the National Academy of Engineering's 16th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Also attending are Virginia Tech's Dennis Hong and Leigh McCue-Weil.
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers honors Srinath Ekkad with FellowshipMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-09-29)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers names Srinath Ekkad, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, as a Fellow of ASME.
- Assistant professor hopes to stall malware threat by tracking human use behaviorsMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-02-02)Danfeng Yao, an assistant professor in the computer science department at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, will use a $530,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to develop software that will differentiate human-user computer interaction from that of malware.
- Assistant professor of biomedical engineering continues outreach to New Jersey hometown schoolsMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-09-30)A Virginia Tech College of Engineering assistant professor will use part of a $175,000, two-year National Science Foundation grant for artificial bone scaffolding research to continue outreach efforts with inner-city New Jersey school children. This effort includes bringing high school students to Blacksburg for a four-week summer program in 2010.
- Assistant professor wins grant to help enrich graduate student careers with e-portfoliosMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-10-18)
Lisa McNair, an assistant professor with the department of engineering education, has won a $403,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to help engineering graduate students develop as reflective practitioners by using e-portfolios that could enrich their own careers.
- Assistant professor wins NSF CAREER award to support next-generation cloud applicationsMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-03-26)Godmar Back, an assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, has won a $419,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to create advanced execution environments for next-generation cloud applications.
- Assistant professor's National Science Foundation CAREER grant will help investigate cell migrationMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-05-10)An assistant professor in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has won a $451,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to study the movement or migration of cells under complex environments and in the presence of conflicting stimuli.
- Assistant professor's National Science Foundation CAREER grant will help understand cell cycle modelMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-01-26)Yang Cao, an assistant professor in the computer science department at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, has won a $550,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to develop computer simulation methods that will better understand the complex, discrete, and stochastic cell cycle model.
- Associate professor helps lay groundwork for pending study linking deli-cut meats to deadly listeriosis infectionMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-04-23)A professor with the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech helped build the computer model behind a draft analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that could link deli counter sliced meats to a deadly Listeria monocytogenes pathogen.
- Associate professor of mechanical engineering receives SAE International Educational AwardMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-09-01)An associate professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering is among eight mechanical engineering professors to receive the SAE International's Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award.
- Associate professor to provide asset management training to water supervisorsMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-02-10)An associate professor with Virginia Tech's College of Engineering at Virginia Tech will host a two-day conference March 10-11 in Blacksburg to help municipalities manage their water and sewer infrastructure to curb potential service problems for customers.
- Bev Watford named as interim head of engineering education program at Virginia TechMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-05-20)Bevlee Watford, associate dean of academic affairs at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, has been named interim department head of the college's engineering education department.
- Blind can take wheel with vehicle designed by university engineering design teamMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-07-15)A student team in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering is providing the blind with an opportunity many never thought possible: The opportunity to drive.
- Blind Driver Challenge project wins top awards at NIWeekMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-08-16)
National Instruments awarded its 2010 Application of the Year award to the Virginia Tech Blind Driver Challenge, a project designed to one day allow blind people to independently drive automobiles. The project is a collaborative effort between the Virginia Tech College of Engineering and the National Federation of the Blind, partnering with TORC Technologies.
- Center for Space Science and Engineering Research receives continued support with third $15,000 donation from VPT Inc.Mackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-05-19)Blacksburg-based company VPT Inc. has donated $15,000 to the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Center for Space Science and Engineering Research, commonly referred to as the Space@VT program. It is the third such donation from VPT in four years, bringing the total to $45,000.
- College of Engineering alumna wins industry honor for dissertationMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-04-28)A doctoral alumna of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has received the 2010 Outstanding Dissertation award from the Aerospace Human Factors Association.
- College of Engineering alumna wins National Science Foundation research fellowshipMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-06-14)The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a graduate research fellowship to a recent alumna from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
- College of Engineering graduate student wins Golden Key scholarshipMackay, Steven D. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-02-23)A graduate student in Virginia Tech's electrical and computer engineering department has been awarded a $10,000 Ford engineering scholarship from the Golden Key international honor society. The international organization awards only four such scholarships annually.