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Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Assistant Professor
Category: Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Mechanical Engineering Alumnus David Canada (BSME ‘04) received the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) 2021 Science Spectrum Trailblazers Award. The award recognizes distinguished individuals who are making a difference in mathematics, biological sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.
Category: Alumni, College of Engineering and Architecture, Mechanical Engineering
This Women’s History Month we honor and share the stories of two alumnae who are dedicated College of Engineering and Architecture leaders, Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D. and Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D. Department of Architecture Chair Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D., FAICP (B. Arch. ‘86) made history when she became the first female architecture department chair at Howard University (HU) in 2016. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D. (BSCE ‘90) is in our spotlight as an alumna who serves and leads her alma mater in various leadership roles. Dr. Jones also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education for the College of Engineering and Architecture.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Mechanical Engineering Junior Oluwatisefunmi Ayo-Idowu recently received the 2021 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Student Leadership Award. The BEYA Student Leadership Award serves to recognize students who are striving to make outstanding contributions to the varied aspects of science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) education and who have proved an interest and commitment to volunteering and learning while affecting the academic atmosphere of their campus (BEYA). Ayo-Idowu also received the 2021 BEYA Student Community Award.
Category: College of Engineering and Architecture, Mechanical Engineering
Architecture Professor Bradford Grant recently received the 2021 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Distinguished Professor Award. According to the ASCA website, the ASCA Distinguished Professor Award honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service.
Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture
Alumnus and Professor Emeritus Lewis Thigpen, Ph.D., PE (BSME ’64) recently published his autobiography, Born and Rai
Architecture Alumnus James E. Silcott (B.Arch. ‘57) has been elevated to the 2020 College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). Silcott was selected for his notable contributions to the advancement of architecture education and the profession through his philanthropy and as a role model and leader in public service.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture
Civil and Environmental Engineering Sophomores Jade Rutledge and Brandon Abraham recently published a paper titled “Mechanical Properties of C3N Nanotubes” in the peer-reviewed scientific journal in materials science Diamond and Related Materials. Rutledge and Abraham worked in collaboration with Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student Hamid Ghasemi under the mentorship of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Hessam Yazdani.
Category: Research, Civil and Environmental Engineering
We celebrate the life of Architecture Professor Emeritus and Alumnus Victor C. W. Dzidzienyo (B.Arch. '67; MCP '69). We deeply appreciate his dedicated service and extend our condolences to family and friends.
Mechanical engineering senior Saleah McFadden won the $50K grand prize at the AT&T HBCU Innovation Challenge along with Howard University (HU) School of Business team members, Ashlynn Donelson, Keoniah Phillips, and Zakiyah Walker. The HU winning team, 4twenty1, competed against 24 other student teams from across seventeen HBCUs.
Recent Computer Science Ph.D. graduates Abdulhamid Adebayo (far right) and Ronald Doku (second to the right) joined tech giants IBM Research and Oracle as researchers in cybersecurity and data science. Dr. Adebayo joined IBM Research as Hybrid Cloud Security Researcher and Dr. Doku joined Oracle, Inc. as Data Scientist. Both were graduate research assistants and advisees of Danda B. Rawat, Ph.D., Computer Science Professor and Director of Howard University’s Data Science & Cybersecurity Center (DSC2).
Category: Alumni, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Hessam Yazdani, Ph.D. has received a $570,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) to support research and education in advanced materials, water treatment and environmental chemistry, orthotics and prosthetics, and traumatic brain injury.
Architecture Alumnus Julian Arrington (‘15) of SmithGroup, an international architecture, engineering and planning firm, served as one of two lead designers for Society’s Cage, an art installation that makes “a statement on the forces of systemic racism” (SmithGroup).
Category: Alumni, Architecture
Electrical Engineering Lecturer Fadel Lashhab, Ph.D. recently received the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International IoT, Electronics and Mechatronics (IEMTRONICS) Best Paper Award in the Mechatronics track for his paper titled “Estimation of Dynamic Laplacian Eigenvalues in Dynamic Consensus Networks”.
Category: Research, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture has received a five-year $7.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to create a Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, known as CoE-AIML. The project is led by Danda B. Rawat, Ph.D., professor of Computer Science and director of Howard’s Data Science & Cybersecurity Center (DSC2).
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Claudia Marin, Ph.D., P.E. is leading a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Convergence Accelerator team to develop an Intelligent Surveillance Platform for Damage Detection and Localization of Civil Infrastructure. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Dr. Marin a $760,000 grant over nine months for Phase I of a two-phased project through the NSF Convergence Accelerator program which is a highly competitive program designed to leverage a convergence approach to transition basic research and discovery into practice. Architecture Professor Bradford Grant will be contributing to the research alongside Dr. Marin.
Chemical Engineering Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Preethi Chandran, Ph.D., received a $500K grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Excellence in Research (EiR) program to study the biophysics of the shield of sugars (glycans) that typically covers pathogens.
Category: Research, Chemical Engineering
Howard University has been recognized by the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) as a recipient of the 2020 CMD-IT University Award for Retention of Minorities and Students with Disabilities in Computer Science.
Category: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science Professor and Director of the Data Science & Cybersecurity Center (DSC2) Danda B. Rawat, Ph.D. is part of a team of researchers working to develop data science and artificial intelligence driven cyber-manufacturing of quantum material aimed at exploring the integration of artificial intelligence and cyber manufacturing towards future manufacturing for quantum materials.
The Heart of Tabitha Foundation partnered with Howard University Chemical Engineering Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Preethi Chandran, Ph.D., and Catholic University Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Otto Wilson, Ph.D., to continue offering its annual summer workshop for local high school students in a virtual setting. The workshop focused on college readiness and STEM careers and featured speakers from several professions.
Category: Chemical Engineering
The Howard University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science recently received a two-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation through the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. The grant will support integrating artificial intelligence and cybersecurity research and education.
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Solmaz Tabtabaei recently received a four-year $450K grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for her research on the classification of legumes and cereals for 3D food printing.
Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Su Yan recently received the prestigious IEEE Antennas and Propagation Edward E. Altschuler AP-S Magazine Prize Paper Award for his paper titled “Multiphysics Modeling in Electromagnetics: Technical Challenges and Potential Solutions”. The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Edward E. Altschuler AP-S Magazine Prize Paper Award was established in 2010 to recognize the best contribution published in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine during the previous year. The paper is co-authored by Jian-Ming Jin, Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering Alumnus Oscar Barton, Jr. (MSME ‘87, Ph.D. ‘93), the first African American to receive the Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Howard University, was recently named dean of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering at Morgan State University. Dr. Barton’s leadership will assist with the efforts of engineering deans at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to diversify the engineering fields and promote the position of HBCUs as leading research institutions in science and engineering.
Category: Alumni, Mechanical Engineering
Architecture Professor Bradford Grant has been named the first Instagram artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery “seeks to collaborate with artists both within and outside the Smithsonian to create dynamic public outreach, engage diverse national and international audiences, and explore the infinite richness and complexity of American history through the art of portraiture and biography to advance the Smithsonian’s fundamental mission to increase and diffuse knowledge”.
Category: Architecture
We commemorate the life of Alumnus and Professor Arthur Sanderson Paul, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Paul served at Howard University for over 38 years as a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Architecture, then known as the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Sciences. After graduating from Presentation Brothers College in St. George’s, Grenada, Dr. Paul attended Howard University as a mechanical engineering major.
Category: Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Mechanical Engineering Chair and Professor Nadir Yilmaz, Ph.D., P.E., recently received the prestigious SAE International Leadership Citation from SAE International, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers. The SAE International Leadership Citation provides public recognition to one individual annually who is internationally acknowledged for continuous professional involvement and participation in SAE programs and events worldwide.
Category: Mechanical Engineering
A native of Cerritos, California, rising Computer Science Junior Nicole Sullivan always wanted to be a scientist. Science was her favorite elementary school subject because she loved discovering things. When she was in middle school, Sullivan came across a website that featured computer games created by students. She was intrigued. In that moment she decided that computer science was the path for her.
Electrical Engineering Alumna Sylvia Wilson Thomas (Ph.D. ‘99) was recently inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows Class of 2020. The AIMBE College of Fellows has inducted 2,000 fellows since it was founded in 1991. According to the AIMBE website, “fellows are nominated each year by their peers and represent the top 2% of the medical and biological engineering community. They are considered the life-blood of AIMBE and work towards realizing AIMBE’s vision to provide medical and biological engineering innovation for the benefit of humanity.”
College of Engineering and Architecture Director of Innovation and Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Grant Warner, Ph.D., along with Mechanical Engineering Professor Gbadebo Moses Owolabi, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Hyung Bae, Ph.D., will be leading the AMP3 Summer Immersion Program at Howard University.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Jeseth Delgado Vela is part of a team of researchers from North Carolina State University, Rice University and the University of Southern California who are collaborating on nationwide efforts to monitor SARS-CoV-2 viral particles in wastewater. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus responsible for causing COVID-19.
Abimbola Oluwade, a 2020 mechanical engineering graduate, has been awarded a graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. Oluwade will receive a cash stipend of $10,000 to pursue graduate studies in mechanical engineering. Oluwade plans to obtain his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with a concentration in fluid mechanics and thermal processes. Tau Beta Pi Fellowships are awarded on the basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession.
Mechanical engineering graduate Melissa Douglas will serve as the student speaker for the 2020 College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) Awards and Recognition Ceremony. This spring, Douglas received a 2020 BEYA Student Leadership Award for her outstanding leadership as president of both the DC Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, and the Howard University chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
WASHINGTON – Howard University announces John M. M. Anderson, Ph.D. as dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA), effective immediately. Anderson most recently served as interim dean of the College of Engineering after holding various positions of increasing responsibility within the College since joining the University in 2002 as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Category: College of Engineering and Architecture
The Howard University Department of Architecture faculty and students are part of a seven-university team funded by a $15 million NASA grant. The grant establishes the Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration (HOME) Space Technology Research Institute for Deep Space Habitat Design, one of two space technology research institutes selected by NASA in 2019.
Category: Architecture, Research
Computer Science Junior Joseph Fletcher, Seniors Kendal Hall and Tyler Ramsey, and Ph.D. student Abdulhamid Adebayo participated in the Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE) Design Challenge at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) 2020 STEM Conference. Computer Science Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director Danda B. Rawat, Ph.D. served as their faculty advisor.
Architecture Professor and Department Chair Hazel Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., has been invited to serve on the Docomomo US 2020 Modernism in America Awards jury. Docomomo US was founded in the United States in 1995, to “share its members’ knowledge of and enthusiasm for modern architecture and design”.
Mechanical Engineering Seniors Melissa Douglas, Jibri Wright, Alli Ashby, and Brad LeBlanc designed masks in response to the current global crisis and shortage of personal protective equipment. The designs are printable substitutes for traditional protective masks that help prevent the spread of coronavirus.
We celebrate the life of Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, Peter Bainum, Ph.D. Dr. Bainum served as a Howard University Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty member from 1969 to 2003. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Bainum held many other professional positions in his field.
The Department of Architecture and the Howard University National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) hosted the 2019 DC Hip Hop Architecture Camp Music Video Premiere.
Architecture Professor Bradford Grant is one of five recipients of the 2020 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change and Society for his course proposal titled Public Issues, Climate Justice, and Architecture. The Association for the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture (Buell Center) invited course proposals from universities around the globe to compete for the prize.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Seniors Travis Flowers, Grace Glenn, Darien Mercado, Binaya Paudel, Sigmund Skinner, Camille Wallace, and Alfred Wallfall placed second in the 2019 ACI Concrete Construction Competition, an international competition sponsored by the American Concrete Institute (ACI).
Category: Civil and Environmental Engineering
WASHINGTON – Howard University is the recipient of a three-year, $3 million grant from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, alongside two partnering minority-serving institutions, for The Partnership for Proactive Cybersecurity Training, a cybersecurity research project based on human biological system-enabled machine learning models.
The Howard University Industry-Research Inclusion in STEM Education (I-RISE) initiative is a cross-cutting institutional project. Mechanical Engineering Professor and Principal Investigator Mohsen Mosleh, Ph.D. was recently awarded $750K for I-RISE by the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
Category: Research, Mechanical Engineering
Members of the Howard University Water Environment Association (HUWEA) were recognized by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) for HUWEA being officially chartered by WEF.
Computer Engineering Freshman Devin C. Martin recently conquered at two hackathons: HackHarvard at Harvard University and HackDuke – Code for Good at Duke University. Martin came in third place for Hack Harvard, which had over 400 international participants from across five continents. For HackDuke, Martin placed first among over 300 participants from the nation's top engineering schools, such as the Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, and Yale University. The participants for each hackathon included both undergraduate and graduate students.
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Tao Wei recently received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his research on multiscale simulations of metal oxide nanoparticle-protein electron transfer.
In addition to her love of the great outdoors, Rankin has loved math and science from early childhood. She even loved receiving extra math homework. It was in elementary school that Rankin began taking STEM classes. From this young age Rankin began to realize she was different from her peers, being the only student of color in her STEM classes. She longed for more diversity in her surroundings.
The Board of Directors of the National Capital Section (NCS) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) commended the ASCE Howard University Student Chapter (ASCE HU) for its exceptional performance this academic year.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Charles Kim received the 2019 VIP Consortium Outstanding Research and Dissemination Award for the Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) program at Howard University (VIP@Howard) for his “creation and leadership of the VIP site at Howard University, his introduction of VIP members of a consortium of HBCUs, and for very thought-provoking papers on VIP”. Dr. Kim currently serves as the VIP@Howard coordinator.
Category: College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering Professor Achille Messac has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. This year’s AAAS Fellows will be formally announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on Nov. 29.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Assistant Professor Hassan Salmani’s Trusted Digital Circuits: Hardware Trojan Vulnerabilities, Prevention and Detection was recently released by the global publishing company Springer.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) kicked off its speaker series with “Robust Design of Geotechnical Systems in Urban Environments” by guest lecturer Dr. Lei Wang of the University of the District of Columbia.
The College of Engineering and Architecture welcomes the appointment of John M. M. Anderson, Ph.D. as interim dean. His appointment was officially announced to the university community by President Wayne A.I. Frederick on April 15, 2019.
Six of our students have been selected as Forbes Under 30 Scholars for the 2019 Forbes Under 30 Summit. A summit with a social reach of 2.3B that attracts celebrities, business leaders, mentors and visionaries, and the world’s best selection of young entrepreneurs is no ordinary event.
Chemical Engineering Sophomore Jordan Smith is passionate about climate change research and finding renewable energy solutions. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Smith made the move to Washington, D.C. after he was selected as a Howard University Bison STEM Scholar.
Architecture Alumnus Charles David Moody (C. D. Moody) (B.Arch. ‘81) will be the first African American to serve as president of the Associated General Contractors of Georgia. Moody will serve as 2020 President. His firm C. D. Moody Construction is “a recognized leader in the construction industry” and “has been delivering quality products since 1988”, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
omputer Science Senior Jasmon Cooley is paying it forward with her non-profit startup Tech 4.0. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Cooley witnessed the absence of engineers and information technology professionals in her environment. She recognized this as a lack of available opportunities and resources. Her goal is to create a pipeline for African American engineering talent, multiplying the number of African American engineers in the United States.
On Monday, April 14, 2019, Achille Messac, Ph.D., current dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) officially announced his resignation to college faculty and staff, giving way to another dean to plan and lead the next phase of advancement for the College of Engineering and Architecture. Dean Achille Messac shared his excitement “about the historic progress of the college over the past three and a half years.” He will continue to serve as dean through the end of the semester, after which he will take sabbatical leave for a year. We welcome Interim Dean John M. M. Anderson.
We celebrate the life of Architecture Alumnus Eddie Jerome Strachan, Ph.D. (B.Arch. ‘53). We are perpetually grateful for his contributions to our college – his college.
We commemorate the lives of several former Department of Architecture faculty members who have recently passed away. Three former faculty members, Jose J. Mapily (B.Arch. ’65; MCP ’72), Ahmed Elnaggar, Ph.D., and Philip Freelon, FAIA, passed away this July, and Oswald Glean Chase, B.S.Arch., MScs, within the past year.
Electrical engineering Ph.D. student Christian Diaz-Caez was selected to participate in an NSF IRES project as a visiting graduate researcher at Tsinghua University this summer. The U.S. News and World Report ranks Tsinghua University as No. 1 in Global Universities in China rankings. The NSF-sponsored project primarily focused on energy-harvesting wearable embedded computer systems. The project was hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Tsinghua University.
Born at Fort Hood military base in Killeen, Texas into a Howard family, Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Sophomore Cameryn Burnette was always inclined to one day attend Howard University, as her mother did. Burnette would have it no other way.
Class of 2019 Architecture Magna Cum Laude Graduate Renee Whiteley addressed her class and the university community at Howard University’s 151st Commencement Convocation on May 12, 2019.
Computer Engineering Senior Cameron Lewis received the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Student Athlete Award for his high academic and athletic performance – mastering his skills in the classroom and on the court. BEYA represents global excellence and competitiveness in STEM (BEYA).
The Department of Architecture welcomed William J.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), in coordination with the newly-formed Howard University Water Environment Association (HUWEA), hosted a panel on careers in protecting human health and the environment – becoming a water professional. The theme: “A community of empowered professionals creating a healthy global water environment”.
Born and raised in Columbia, Maryland, Computer Science Sophomore Christopher Flowers always loved math and science. Both of his parents being English and math teachers, they may have helped instill in him the love for STEM. However, he also entertained a passion for music from an early age.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Robert Efimba received the American Society of Civil Engineers National Capitol Section (ASCE-NCS) Lifetime Excellence in Service Award. The award “recognizes individual members of the Section who have made outstanding contributions to its work over their lifetime” (ASCE). Awardees are required to be active members with at least 10 years of service and to have set “a high standard of professionalism through service” (ASCE).
One of the finalist teams for the Government’s Houses of Parliament Design Competition in Kingston, Jamaica stands out as it includes Howard University trained architects. GSA Architects and Planners, led by Jamaican architect Guenet Anderson, includes Howard architecture alumni Leland Edgecombe, AIA, ASLA, AICP, CNU (B.Arch. 1978), Emerson Hamilton, AIA (B.Arch. 1979, M.Arch. 1982), Emmanuel Mdingi, AIA (B.Arch. 1996), and Nicholette Gordon (B.Arch. 2016).
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor and Howard University Transportation Research Center (HUTRC) Director Stephen Arhin has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Dr. Arhin’s nomination was supported by ITE Fellows from industry, academia and government positions. The ITE confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements, including at least ten years of professional experiences.
Howard University’s Bison STEM Scholar Program (BSSP) is its most challenging program yet. The BSSP is a program intended to attract high-achieving and community-service oriented high school students into various STEM disciplines. These students must maintain a minimum required GPA, along with a rigorous academic plan towards obtaining a Ph.D. or medical degree, and demonstrate excellent leadership and team-working skills with the discipline to motivate themselves and others. They must also have research interests which they actively develop throughout their tenure at Howard University.
The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has awarded a five-year grant of $3,750,000 to Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor and Howard University Transportation Research Center (HUTRC) Director Stephen Arhin to conduct various traffic studies, traffic safety improvements and crash data analysis for the District of Columbia (DC) as part of the city’s Vision Zero Initiative.
Alumnus and former Operating Dean Jerome W. Lindsey, Jr. passed away on New Year’s Day. Lindsey leaves behind a legacy of community engagement and activism, passionate learning and teaching, and paving the way for black architects and planners.
The College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) has seen a 38% increase in Ph.D. program enrollment and a quadrupling of the number of doctoral degrees awarded since 2015.
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Chair Kimberly L. Jones served as a committee member for the development of a National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering report on the "Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century."
Category: Alumni, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Tepper Gill recently received the 2018 R.M. Santilli Foundation Scientific Award for Unprecedented Advances on Isotopies. The R.M. Santilli Foundation Scientific Awards were presented at the International Conference on Pure and Applied Mathematics (ICPAM 2018).
Chemical Engineering Junior Jamaka Thomas won second place in the Food, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology category at the 2018 Annual AIChE Meeting for her research submission titled: “Enrichment of Oat Protein by Means of Gravity and Electrostatic Forces.” Thomas co-authored her submission with Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Dinara Konakbayeva.
Three of our researchers have recently been awarded $1.8 million in National Science Foundation (NSF) grants this fall. Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Tao Wei, Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Hyung Bae, and Computer Science Assistant Professor Gedare Bloom share their research objectives and goals.
Category: Research, College of Engineering and Architecture
The Department of Architecture hosted a workshop on the Architect Registration Examination (ARE) and the path to licensure, in collaboration with the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) on November 14, 2018. The workshop was facilitated by representatives of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) and the District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) Board of Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture.
Carl Elefante, FAIA, president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) delivered a powerful talk on “Architecture’s Relevance Revolution” Monday, October 15 in our Innovation Space. Elefante is Principal and Director of Sustainability for Quinn Evans Architects, which has offices in Washington, D.C., Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan, and Madison, Wisconsin.
The Department of Architecture was invited by Dr. Michelle Wilkinson of the National Museum of African American History and Culture to collaborate in bringing the local perspective of Black architects and planners to coincide with the museum’s symposium, Shifting the Landscape: Black Architects and Planners, 1968 to Now. Architects, planners, historians, and community members engaged in conversations on Thursday, September 27, 2018 in our Innovation Space about the shared local experiences of the 1968 urban rebellions throughout Washington, D.C. following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The percentage of women faculty in the College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) has doubled since 2015. The percentage of women assistant professors has quadrupled.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant of $1M to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor and Data Science and Cybersecurity Center Director Danda B. Rawat and Associate Dean Moses Garuba for their research project titled "Security Engineering for Resilient Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems".
Mechanical Engineering Alumnus Dereje Agonafer has been elected as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student Hamid Ghasemi wins first place in the 2018 student paper competition of the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) for his research titled “Atomistic Insight into Anti-Corrosion Role of Graphene as a Coating in Metals: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach”.
The College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) sees a 66-point increase in ranking in the U.S. News 2019 Best Graduate Schools Rankings. This historic increase over the past three years places CEA in the nation's top 12 percent of engineering colleges.
The College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) has partnered with the College of Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop a dual degree program that enables Ph.D. level candidates at each institution to simultaneously earn a Ph.D. degree at each institution with an advisor at each institution in the relevant department.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering H.A. Whitworth, Ph.D. has been elected Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in July 2017. Dr. Whitworth was nominated by Mechanical Engineering Department Chair Nadir Yilmaz, with letters of support from academia, industry and national labs. The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. Nominated by ASME Members and Fellows, an ASME Member has to have ten or more years of active practice and at least ten years of active corporate membership in ASME.
Howard West, an educational and career development initiative between Howard University and Google, Inc., is a first step in creating more opportunities for African-American engineers. Howard West, a vision of President Frederick, was realized in 2017 with a successful pilot program.
Electrical Engineering Professor James A. Momoh has been confirmed as Chairman of the Board of Nigeria Electricity Commission (NERC) after consideration of President Muhammadu Buhari's nomination by Nigerian Senate.
Days before our CEA Recognition and Awards Ceremony, campus grounds were buzzing with the excitement of family members anticipating the moment that their graduates would walk the stage. Staff and faculty were equally excited!
In loving memory of her mother, Pinkney decided to dedicate her life to the service of others. Pinkney started Pinkney Promise, a non-profit organization through which she would host varied events for the community. The goal was to provide inspiration to others through holistic activities that support mental health awareness.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Emmanuel Glakpe has been elected American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow after nomination from Mechanical Engineering Department Chair Nadir Yilmaz. Dr. Glakpe’s nomination was supported by ASME Fellows from within academia, industry and government positions.
Fourth year architecture student Huy Bui's project receives one of twenty-seven honorable mentions out of 526 projects that were submitted to the eVolo Magazine 2018 Skyscraper Competition.
As we close in on another amazingly productive and successful academic year, our student council met with Dean Messac to brainstorm an idea to appreciate our students who are all extremely well-deserving, diligent and hard-working. The result: The CEA End-of-the-Year Student Appreciation BBQ!
Associate Professor William Wesley Taylor’s book Drylongso: Excursions in the Production of Place and the Maintenance of Identity was released by college textbook publisher Linus Learning. Professor Taylor comprehensively writes about place and identity from a perspective of over forty years of design practice and thirty-three years of teaching.
EECS students presented their senior capstone projects in the Innovation Space for their second year as an integrated department. These final designs are the products of the EECS Senior Design program, intended to prepare students for the workplace and provide research experience for those students who are pursuing advanced degrees.
Florantine Monica Joseph, a graduating senior in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is the recipient of the 2018 National Capital Chapter - American Concrete Institute (NCC ACI) Outstanding Student Award. Joseph was recognized at the NCC ACI Student Award Dinner on April 18, 2018 in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
Chemical Engineering postdoctoral researcher Jyothirmai Simhadri was announced as the Post Doc/Resident/Fellow/Research Associate winner in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category for her research submission "Development of Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 Biofilms for Iodate Reduction in Groundwater".
Computer Science undergraduate student Candace Williams was announced as the undergraduate winner in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category for her research submission titled "Safe Space: Using Gamification to Provide Medical Recommendations for Sickle Cell Patients in Preadolescence."
Dr. Stacey Dixon, Deputy Director of Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), will be the 2018 CEA Recognition and Awards Ceremony Keynote Speaker. The 2018 CEA Recognition and Awards Ceremony will be held in the Cramton Auditorium at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 11, 2018.
Howard University held its 2018 Research Week Symposium, April 9-13. Research Week 2018 is part of Howard University's "ongoing efforts to foster the research mission and to celebrate the University’s research enterprise, which is comprised of external grants and contracts, distinguished scholarly projects, and outstanding creative works."
The architectural design process of Howard West is underway. Architect Danish Kurani, in partnership with Google, Inc., led the Vision Workshop in the Howard H. Mackey Building yesterday to gauge computer science students' learning space needs directly through students' thoughts and suggestions.
Category: Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Architecture Department Chair Hazel R. Edwards has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) and will be inducted on April 22, 2018 at the 2018 Induction Ceremony in New Orleans.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Ahlam I. Shalaby recognizes three basic problems in fluid mechanics, which she meticulously addresses in her recently published textbook Fluid Mechanics for Civil and Environmental Engineers.
Electrical Engineering Professor Ahmed Rubaai has been named an IEEE Fellow and is being recognized for “Contributions to The Development of High-Performance Controls for Electric Motor Drives.”
Mechanical Engineering Department Chair and Professor Nadir Yilmaz recently received the 2017 NSPE Engineering Education Excellence Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). The Sustaining Universities Program of the Professional Engineers in Higher Education of the National Society of Professional Engineers has established this award to recognize one engineering educator each year from among all engineering disciplines. This national award recognizes engineering faculty who have demonstrated the ability to link engineering education with professional practice.
Each year, with the generous sponsorship of the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, AIChE-NCS presents award
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Robert Efimba was recognized for his lifetime of outstanding achievements and contributions in civil engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in the February 2018 issue of the ASCE National Capital Section eNewsletter.
Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Grant Warner, Ph.D. received the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Innovators Award. Dr. Warner was honored along with Computer Science Professor Legand Burge, Ph.D. for their collaborative work to build the entrepreneurial mindset throughout Howard University.
Joining Howard University in Fall 2017 as an assistant professor in the department of architecture, Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D. has already been awarded a research grant by the Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation (AAHF). Dr. Ferdous also brings her Toyota Foundation Individual Research Grant awarded in Summer 2017 to Howard University.
Professor Ronnie McGhee has been elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). AIA Fellows are recognized with the AIA’s highest membership honor for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society.
Associate Professor Edward D. Dunson, AIA, has been appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by President Obama. He will be the fifth African-American and the second Howard University architect to serve on the Commission.
SAE International announced that Mechanical Engineering Department Chair Nadir Yilmaz was elected as a 2016-2017 SAE Fellow. Dr. Yilmaz was recognized during ceremonies at the WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience. The highest grade of membership, SAE Fellow recognizes and honors long-term members who have made a significant impact on society's mobility technology through leadership, research, and innovation. Established in 1975, the grade of Fellow is administered by the SAE Fellow Committee.
We are pleased to announce that two graduates of the Howard University Department of Architecture, Kwendeche (B.Arch. 1976) and Kathy Dixon (B.Arch. 1991), have been elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).
Chemical engineering students participated in the 2016 AIChE Annual Student Conference in San Francisco, CA, November 14-18, 2016. Senior Simone Stanley and juniors April Howard, Anayia Reliford, Mahtab Waseem, Bekuechukwu Uzondu, Diwash Bajracharya and Okeoghene Osevwe were our shining participants.
Chemical Engineering Department Chair Ramesh Chawla has been invited to serve on the U.S Environmental Protection Agency's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology for a two-year term. As a representative member, he will represent the interests of the Howard University Department of Chemical Engineering.
Washington, DC – HU ADVANCE-IT presented its Woman in STEM Researcher of the Year Award to Dr. Kimberly L. Jones on Friday, April 17, 2015. The award, first given in 2014, recognizes the distinguished scholarship and leadership of women faculty in STEM at Howard University. HU ADVANCE – IT was a platinum sponsor of this year’s Research Week which culminated with this award presentation.