Howard University civil and environmental engineering senior Moriah Hamilton has been named to this year’s cohort of Schwarzman Scholars. The 150 scholars named to this year’s cohort were selected from a record high of 5,000 candidates worldwide. This year’s scholars hail from 38 countries and 105 universities from around the world.
Category: Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University electrical engineering associate professor and director of graduate studies Su Yan, Ph.D. was recently announced as a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award recipient for his research on randomized algorithms for solving large-scale and multiscale problems in electromagnetics and multiphysics. The $875,000 award will span over the course of five years.
Category: Research, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Howard University architecture assistant professor Nea Maloo, FAIA, was recently awarded the 2024 Fair Housing Award for Consumer Education by the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials. The Fair Housing Awards recognize programs that promote fair housing and work to eliminate housing discrimination.
Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University Dow Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program participants from the departments of biology, chemistry, computer science, and chemical engineering visited the Dow Chemical Company at the end of the Fall semester.
Category: Research, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
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Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University chemical engineering graduate student Chinwe Kamma received the 2024 Outstanding Research Poster Presentation Award at the STEMNoire 2024: Black Women Leading the STEM Renaissance Conference.
On July 16, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that Howard University has recently been selected to participate in the $160M U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) project for reducing embodied greenhouse gas emissions for construction materials and products. Nea Maloo, assistant professor in the Howard University Department of Architecture, will be collaborating with researchers from the University of Washington, the University of California, Berkeley and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on validating and expanding research and education for life cycle assessment (LCA) policy.
Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University architecture recent graduate Brianna Alexander (M. Arch. ‘24) was elected to the American Institute of Architecture Students as the Northeast Quad Director. Elected for a one-year term, after a successful campaign including speeches, meeting chapter leaders and hosting events, Alexander will be officially inaugurated at AIAS Grassroots Leadership Conference 2024 in July.
DOE launched its inaugural HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize Partnerships Track earlier this year, naming Howard University as one of only ten prize winners.
Howard University engineering students were named student competition winners at the National Society of Black Engineer’s 50th annual convention. Chemical engineering rising sophomore Oluchi Emenike and electrical engineering rising sophomore Nathaniel Crosse won first place in the Let’s Debate: Generative AI Competition in which they debated the pros and cons of generative AI.
Category: Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Howard University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science recently opened its state-of-the-art Silicon Design and Validation Lab. This cutting-edge facility, funded primarily with Apple’s generous $1.3M Innovation Grant, is designed to foster innovation and excellence in the fields of semiconductor design, testing, and validation. Electrical engineering professor and department chair Ahmed Rubaai, Ph.D., is serving as the principal investigator and lab director to further expand silicon and hardware engineering at Howard University.
This unrestricted gift will fund student preparation for an AI-Powered workforce – leveraging a new state-of-the-art Design and Make lab.
Category: College of Engineering and Architecture, Mechanical Engineering
Architecture lecturer Julian Owens, NOMA, AIA, NCARB, was recently announced a winner of the 2024 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, as a founding director of the Partners of Place design collective.
Nduom is one of only 15 scholars highlighted in the 2024 Emerging Scholars edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a publication dedicated to special reporting on diversity in higher education for over four decades.
Our Spring 2024 CEA Awards and Recognition Ceremony will feature two outstanding College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) graduates selected from a group of candidates who submitted entries based on a set of criteria. Presenting this year are Arriel Barganier (B.S. Arch. ‘24) and Alrick Davis (BSChE ‘24).
Category: Architecture, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently announced its distinguished 2023 Class of AAAS fellows, which includes two Howard University professors -- Janelle Burke, Ph.D. and Nadir Yilmaz, Ph.D. -- among the list of 502 scientists, engineers, and innovators.
Category: Research, College of Engineering and Architecture, Mechanical Engineering
Howard University mechanical engineering professor Mohsen Mosleh, Ph.D., was recently awarded a $900K grant by the U.S. Department of Education for the Integrating Leadership Education and Development (I-LEAD) into Minority STEM Education program. The I-LEAD program will span over the course of three years.
Howard University computer science juniors Myles D. Block, Matthew A. Getachew, Malik Y. Stewart, Brandon Clarke and Ryan Taylor were named a winning team at the 8th Annual Black Enterprise Smart Hackathon. Anietie Andy, Ph.D. (MSc ’09; Ph.D. ’17), assistant professor of computer science, served as faculty advisor for the team.
Category: College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Howard University mechanical engineering alumna Aprille J. Ericsson (MEng ‘90; Ph.D. ‘95) has been nominated by United States President Joseph Biden to serve as the assistant secretary of defense for science and technology.
Category: Alumni, College of Engineering and Architecture, Mechanical Engineering
Howard University computer science assistant professor Anietie Andy, PhD (MSc ’09; PhD ’17), recently received a $500K grant from the National Institutes of Health Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) to build the Howard University Integrated Clinical Data Repository (CDR). Anietie Andy and Abiodun Otolorin, MD, MS, FAAFP, assistant professor of community and family medicine, were named PIs on the project in collaboration with MedStar Health.
Category: Alumni, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
As part of a collaboration that was announced and then subsequently expanded earlier this year, Amazon and Howard University have announced the 2023 recipients of their gift project awards and doctoral fellowship. These accolades recognize individuals whose proposed projects fulfill the collaboration’s mission to bring differentiated research to the forefront.
Category: Research, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D. (BSCE '90) is the first African American in the EPA's 45-year history to be appointed as chair of the board that advises the nation’s top agency responsible for protecting the environment and human health.
Category: Alumni, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Tenth anniversary cohort includes 14 Googlers in Residence and 14 partnering institutions across the country. Announcement marks the tenth cohort of the Google in Residence program, which has reached more than 8,000 HBCUs.
Howard University Architecture Professor Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D. (B.Arch. ‘86) was selected as a 2023-2024 fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. According to the Institute, a Radcliffe fellowship offers scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—as well as writers, journalists, and other distinguished professionals—a rare chance to pursue ambitious projects for a full year in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture
The Howard University student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (HU ASME) recently received the ASME Student Section Achievement Award for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Howard University mechanical engineering professor and department chair Nadir Yilmaz, Ph.D., P.E., was recently elevated to fellow member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The ASEE Board of Directors confers the grade of fellow members to recognize outstanding contributions to engineering education or engineering technology education and considerable individual contributions to ASEE.
The Howard University interdisciplinary teams Retro Booming and Team Revive successfully participated in the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2023 Design Challenge. The teams are comprised of 21 students from the architecture, clinical laboratory, engineering, environmental science, environmental studies, and sociology disciplines.
Mechanical engineering professor Gbadebo Moses Owolabi, Ph.D., recently received a $794K grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for his research on enhancing advanced materials produced with additive manufacturing technology (AM), commonly known as 3D printing technology.
This year three outstanding College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) graduates will be presenting at our Spring 2023 CEA Awards and Recognition Ceremony, Olabisi Bello (BSChE ’23), Myles Bostic (BSCS ‘23) and Marie-Chantal Nyirahategekimana (BSChE ‘23).
Category: Alumni, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Expansion includes the creation of interdisciplinary robotics courses and RoboLab, where students will engage in prototype development and feasibility testing.
