Accelerating aerospace innovation
December 19, 2017, Mike Ettlemyer
The University of South Carolina will accelerate aerospace innovation through a new $2 million research endowment.
2017 Archive
The sky is not the limit
November 21, 2017, Chris Horn
Michel van Vooren, director of the McNAIR Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research, says the center is taking flight with new research grants and the collective energy of 50 undergraduate and graduate students.
Meet new faculty member Fred Dryer
November 15, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Mechanical engineering professor Fred Dryer comes to South Carolina from Princeton, where he was an emeritus faculty member after 35 years in the classroom. Dryer wants to expand his focus on research.
Distinguished Alumni Award: Raphael Lee, '71
October 17, 2017, Page Ivey
Raphael Lee, a pioneering plastic surgeon and biomedical engineer, has focused his medical research on tissue injury and repair, therapeutic control of scar formation and reconstructive surgery.
UofSC receives $500,000 NSF grant to accelerate entrepreneurship
September 20, 2017, Mike Ettlemyer
The University of South Carolina has been named the first Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site in the state with a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to accelerate entrepreneurship.
Advancing SC workforce
September 19, 2017
The University of South Carolina has been preparing students for the workforce for generations. As the state has attracted more high-tech manufacturing operations, the need for more skilled workers has grown rapidly. The university can now increase its reach to help even more South Carolinians take advantage of these opportunities with a $20 million National Science Foundation grant.
A career well spent
August 16, 2017, Chris Horn
Since 1963, Joe and Neva Gibbons have made it their mission to befriend and help Joe's chemical engineering students in any way they could. That legacy continued even after Joe Gibbons retired in 2006.
Talking through thin air
August 14, 2017, Mike Ettlemyer
David W. Matolak, electrical engineering professor and researcher in the College of Engineering and Computing, is the principal investigator in a new NASA-funded $4.4 million research project to address limitations in aircraft communication networks to improve operations and increase safety.
Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award winner: Sourav Banerjee
August 04, 2017, Chris Horn
When Sourav Banerjee talks about teaching numerical and mathematical methods to engineering students, his enthusiasm is nearly palpable. The Calcutta, India, native is one of four recipients of the 2017 Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award.
UofSC research means better roads coming to South Carolina
June 12, 2017, Mike Ettlemyer
The research team will receive $1.76 million in funding from the SC Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration to collect new data on the state’s roadways over the next four years. The research will determine how roads can better be constructed, fixed and maintained so that new pavement lasts longer.
Breakthrough Star: Chen Li
June 09, 2017, Chris Horn
If there’s a problem with too much heat in an electronic system, Chen Li probably has a plan to cool it down. The mechanical engineering associate professor has five patents related to heat dissipation technology for applications ranging from computer chips to power plants.
Fingerprints to the past
June 05, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Researchers at the University of South Carolina are working to create a software program that will automatically match prehistoric pottery with whole designs, which will help uncover how Native Americans interacted more than 1,500 years ago.
Breakthrough Leader: John Weidner
May 29, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
John Weidner, a professor of chemical engineering, concentrates his research in electrochemistry. What he’s really after is the hydrogen made by adding electricity to water — specifically, the renewable kind.
Breakthrough Star: Gabriel Terejanu
May 19, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
Running sophisticated computer models to analyze large sets of data and identify meaningful trends is the world of Gabriel Terejanu, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering. His knowledge of uncertainty is attracting collaborators from the cornfield to the classroom.
Signing day
May 09, 2017, Mike Ettlemyer
High school students from throughout the Palmetto State on Tuesday (May 9) celebrated their commitment to studying science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) at the University of South Carolina and other institutions.
Breakthrough Leader: Victor Giurgiutiu
April 28, 2017, Page Ivey
Victor Giurgiutiu has spent the past 20 years creating processes to better monitor the health of roads, bridges and tunnels, as well as planes, trains and automobiles.
From Carolina to ... anywhere
April 21, 2017, Dan Cook
Last year, some 1,700 undergraduates studied abroad — a 15 percent increase. The quick jump is just one aspect of the increasing internationalization of the University of South Carolina, a coordinated effort led by Global Carolina, a strategic initiative launched two years ago.
Breakthrough Leader: Roger Dougal
April 21, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
Roger Dougal, chair of electrical engineering department in the College of Engineering and Computing, is an expert on power electronics, focusing his research primarily on modeling the dynamic behavior of large, complex electrically driven systems.
Family makes innovative gift in father's honor
January 19, 2017, Page Ivey
Nan Easterlin and Barry Storey were “raised Gamecocks.” So when the two Georgia grads wanted to do something to honor their father, a 1951 engineering graduate of the University of South Carolina, they stuck to what they knew.