Award cited significant contributions to sensing forensics and analytics.
Arnaud Trouvé delivered a plenary talk for the premier combustion research meeting in Kyoto, Japan.
A five-university partnership takes UMD engineering students abroad to tackle real-world energy challenges.
Ph.D. student Yvonne Zhou partners with J.P. Morgan to advance privacy-preserving AI.
Seven of 11 collaborative projects include contributions from engineering
Aerosol research found presence of "Aeruginosins" in the air during days-long episode.
New study by Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering professors will investigate the correlation between weather conditions and the spread of airborne viruses.
Presented by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center, the Pride and Advocacy Award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership during the past year and made a positive impact on LGBTQ+ communities at the University of Maryland.
BIOE and BCE students won top honors at the 2026 Capstone Expo for patient care tech innovations.
More than 750 students showcased 143 projects, demonstrating the future of engineering.
Honoring 86 undergraduates who exemplify the college’s commitment to excellence
UMD Research Changes Lives: Faculty and Undergraduates Draw Closer to Potential Cure
Awards recognize exceptional students pursuing careers and research in vertical flight.
We are proud to have a dynamic community, and we are honored to build and strengthen it together.
A mechanical engineering major and Clark Scholar found his community at the Clark School and UMD.
As both a mentor and a mentee, Natalie looks for ways to learn from others, even while studying abroad in Spain.
Black engineers contribute to our discipline in ways that inspire progress and service to the public good.
Father-daughter engineers know the power of the Clark School’s CMSE
From classroom to community, the aerospace engineering transfer student lifts off
Area Youth Engage in Summer STEM and Engineering Programs.
BIOE and BCE students showcased innovative health tech solutions at the 2025 Capstone Design Expo.
Read the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Engineering at Maryland magazine to learn how we help students “major in the future,” and how this approach is succeeding.
More than 800 Clark School Seniors Present Projects to Tackle Real-World Problems at the 2025 Capstone Design Expo
At the A. James Clark School of Engineering, we honor the contributions of Black engineering trailblazers, whose accomplishments improve our society through innovation and leadership.
Presented by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center, the scholarship recognizes undergraduate and graduate students committed to advancing civil rights for and preventing discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering introduces high school students to the field.
The Clark School celebrates its Latine and Hispanic engineers.
Further Establishes UMD as the Capital of Quantum
Small businesses to develop innovative bio-based products and biomass technologies
Six Clark School faculty members are among the university's 2024 convocation honorees.
Students soar to top spot in world’s largest intercollegiate rocket competition.
Experts put forward their perspectives on the March incident.
The professor becomes the second in the department to earn this lifetime distinction.
UMD engineers demonstrate
their autonomous robot science kit
More than 500 Clark School Seniors Showcase Engineering Solutions to Real-World Problems
Maryland Engineering honored 79 undergraduates who exemplify the college's commitment to excellence at this year's ceremony event, held April 29 in the Stamp Student Union. Five were recognized with Dean's Awards.
Inaugural Capstone Design Expo Highlights Real-World Innovations
Anirudh Nakra Studying Microplastics using Quantum Methods
The impact made by APIDA engineers—at the Clark School, and on our country and world—improves our community and field in numerous and significant ways.
Our Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American community has made substantial contributions to these ecosystems, and we are proud to celebrate its lasting impact on our society.
In celebration of Women's History Month, we highlight some of the important contributions of women engineers within our campus community.
To support clean energy measures and technologies
In celebration of Black History Month, we highlight the many impactful contributions of Black engineers in our community—students, alums, faculty, and staff—to the Clark School, our university, and world.
Study Could Lead to Better Fire Modeling, New Safety Tech
The inaugural chair and professor of the department passed away in December 2023, leaving a mark in a community touched by his kindness, wisdom and passion.
Materials Science and Engineering celebrated its anniversary on November 7, 2023.
In Fall 2023, UMD welcomed 10 exceptional young engineers from across the state of Maryland as its newest class of Clark Scholars.
Resources and events for the Clark School's LGBTQ+ students and allies.
Ichiro Takeuchi and Liangbing Hu discuss research innovations at
The Circuit News.
The A. James Clark School of Engineering ranks 19 overall among more than 200 undergraduate engineering programs—up three positions from its previous undergraduate ranking.
U.S. Representative Glenn F. Ivey presented a proclamation honoring the AMAV team's NIST competition victory.
Reporters stand in hurricane-force winds at UMD’s Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Graduate Selected for Prestigious Department of Energy Award
Maryland Engineering honored 70 undergraduates who exemplify the college’s commitment to excellence at this year’s ceremony event, held May 10 in the Stamp Student Union. Five were recognized with Dean’s Awards.
Students challenged to present research in just three minutes!
Women continue to shape history, including at the Clark School of Engineering. This month we celebrate those landmarks and the work necessary to forge them, and how it’s incumbent upon our larger community to assist in this work.
Funding will support an interdisciplinary project geared towards wildfires and WUI fire behavior.
Recognized for Achievements in Research, Teaching and Leadership
Twelve projects led by or involving Maryland Engineering faculty have been awarded funding through the Grand Challenges Grants Program, the largest and most comprehensive program of its kind ever introduced at the University of Maryland.
Elsevier releases updated science-wide database
Eric Wachsman and Ji-Cheng “JC” Zhao have been named to the National Academy of Inventors’ (NAI) Class of 2022 Fellows, joining the ranks of some of the nation’s most prestigious and creative academic inventors.
Wu (EE Ph.D. 2009) is a former student of Eyad Abed and Patrick O'Shea.
Induction celebrates Bader’s work to democratize supercomputing through the creation of the first Linux supercomputer.
Expanded Cellulose Super Ion Conductor Honored
Exoskeletons of shellfish provide a cheap, eco-friendly alternative to other HEM fuel cells currently on the market.
Professor Min Wu and Associate Professor Dana Dachman-Soled part of NSF/Amazon-funded research team.
Transportation safety, impact of telecommuting among topics covered by UMD experts.
Alumnus David A. Bader (Ph.D. ’96) selected for contributions to high-performance computing systems, graph analytics and technical leadership in parallel computing.
Clark School researchers among the "who's who" of influential researchers, according to Clarivate.
The pair join nine other NAI Fellows with ties to the Clark School and the University of Maryland.
Research aims to explore updates to risk assessment tools and methods used by the nuclear industry.
Wu will begin serving as IEEE SPS President on January 1, 2024.
A new $1.2M NSF grant funds their AI research into the relationship between ECG and PPG monitoring technologies.
Nnenia Campbell to deliver inaugural CEE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Seminar.
Abshire, Fisher and Hu honored for outstanding success in scholarly accomplishment and excellence in teaching.
Join us on September 10 for a reflection and lessons-learned discussion.
The 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021) will be held both in person and online from May 30 to June 5, 2021.
Doctoral student recognized for research on COVID-19 impacts.
Open to students graduating from engineering, pharmacy, STEM programs at UMD College Park and Baltimore
ChBE Professor Akua Asa-Awuku recognized as a regional champion.
Researchers aim to bridge the gap between microelectronics and biological systems to create next-generation wearables.
From extreme batteries to windows made from wood, Clark School’s trendsetting work ranks it among the country’s Top 10 public engineering schools for the 3rd consecutive year.
The Clark School community stands united with our Asian, Asian-American and Pacific Islanders colleagues.
The Maryland Robotics Center will administer the program, which begins in Fall 2021.
A fellowship for Mozambican women to pursue graduate education in Reliability Engineering at UMD
UMD researchers presented new findings, tools, and technologies, including a COVID-19 Impact Dashboard that leverages mobile device data.
Maryland’s Future 20 is a list of startups that have the potential to be the state’s next major business success story.
Locascio and Chellappa are among 175 new fellows who collectively hold over 4,700 U.S. patents.
International funding, research and collaboration increase in line with loss of property and human life due to fire.
Keystone Professor Teng Li uses machine learning to gauge the performance of single-atom catalysts.
Asa-Awuku, Duncan and Terrell-Shockley aim to steer students from non-traditional geoscience backgrounds into collaborative geoscience work.
Micro-signals on videos could be used to infer physiological conditions.
Three Clark School graduate students were among the university's 2020 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) winners.
The research is helping medical team in Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital prepare and allocate resources and support decisions.
BIOE seniors present Capstone projects and celebrate winners virtually.
Clark School researchers are working to create solutions and pool resources in efforts to minimize the spread of the disease, provide critical aid to health care workers and their patients, and monitor the impact of social distancing and travel restrictions.
ECE Alumnus Alex Scott ‘18 and his teammates are repurposing breast pumps to support the global ventilator shortage and assist healthcare facilities to fight the novel Coronavirus.
Trouvé and Stoliarov led the U21 International Fire Safety Consortium on campus last week.
AMBIC Industry Board members and other researchers convened to discuss new and ongoing projects.
The Clark School gives this award to a junior faculty member for excellence in teaching.
The Institute is accepting applications for the MPowering the State Student Entrepreneurship Fellowship.
New inductees are latest of six UMD faculty recognized by NAI for ‘prolific spirit of innovation.’
UMB, BIOE researchers team up to study link between spinal cord injury and dementia.
Researchers investigate new 4D printing techniques to control stem cell cardiomyogenesis.
Professor Min Wu received the prestigious Harriett B. Rigas Award from the IEEE Education Society for outstanding leadership in signal processing, education, and mentoring.
Akua Asa-Awuku strives to understand the molecular components of the atmosphere that exist at the ultrasmall nanoscale.
BRE experiment commenced aboard the International Space Station on February 8.
University of Maryland establishes Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices to propel advancements in human health.
Students award AWCAA $10,000 to help African women with cancer.
The experiment will travel on the ISS for a year, exposing samples to the environment of low earth orbit.
Their paper, “Development of an RFID System for SPS-ALPHA,” won at the finals held at IAC 2018 on October 1-5, in Bremen, Germany.
The project is funded under the Office of Naval Research Atmospheric Propagation Studies for High Energy Lasers program.
Build a prototype electric bicycle with a range of 125 miles.
The Maryland Transportation Institute will coordiate more than $20 million in annual research expenditures.
BIOE Research Professor recognized for contributions to the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The Clark School is featuring our female engineering faculty members throughout March.
Grant money will be used in research aimed at developing wild-fire suppression methods, and cleaner, more efficient internal combustion engines.
FPE Chair and undergraduate students interviewed by WUSA9 reporter on the topic of wildland fire phenomenon.
Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices, RTI International draw capacity crowd to March 7
th event.
System holds promise for study of biological systems, biosensors and bio-hybrid devices.
Grant marks more than $30,000 in student-awarded grants given through landmark engineering philanthropy course.
‘Cooler than glass’ windows receive international coverage
Affordable RT-PCR for clinical diagnostics, fear mitigation device for pediatric MRIs tie for first place.
National Fire Protection Association recognizes UMD Fire Protection Engineering research team with 2016 Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal.
UMD experts are using transportation modeling and simulation technologies to help commuters make informed decisions.
The Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Program honors members of UMD faculty who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievements along with equally outstanding accomplishments as teachers.
Exemplary service and leadership garner IEEE award for Clark School Professor.
Mechanical Engineering Professor Elisabeth Smela Named University of Maryland ADVANCE Professor
Prolific Researcher Recognized for Exceptional Teaching and Mentoring
UMD wins one of six computational design toolkits from ASM International.
Invention, described in
Science, could be used to create biomedical implants, more.
Discovery Sheds New Light on 175-year-old Principle
Three Clark School innovations win UMD Invention of the Year Awards
Invention offers security, forensic, and historic preservation applications
Nine nominees for Invention of the Year to be recognized at annual event
Fire Protection Engineering Department hopes to educate its students and the public.
Fire Protection Engineering Chair featured in news report.
An-Yeu (Andy) Wu and Haitao (Heather) Zheng, both former students of Professor K.J. Ray Liu, are among the 2015 class of IEEE Fellows.
Clark School of Engineering will welcome two distinguished speakers for its Whiting-Turner lecture series this fall.
Associate Dean William Fourney and Professor Emeritus R. J. Sanford receive awards at annual SEM meeting.
Students' inventions range from diagnostic devices to accident prevention products.
University Innovation Fellows Mittra and Singh create YouTube video to promote innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives at UMD.
The Silicon Valley-tested, Lean Startup-based initiative is slated to train 300 top entrepreneurial research teams over three years.
The new, NSF-supported program revolutionizes technology transfer from university, federal laboratories.
Clark School energy research, including solid oxide fuel cells and wood battery, featured in variety of mainstream media outlets.
New Business Model Challenge focuses on business model generation, customer development and pivoting.
26th annual awards ceremony honors most promising campus inventions.
Professor's 80
th birthday, career celebrated in special symposium.
Clark School of Engineering undergrads help middle and high school students prepare, compete.
S. Pamir Alpay (Ph.D. '99, materials science and engineering) leads new department.
Initiative to Train 300 of the Top Entrepreneurial Research Teams from U.S. Universities, Federal Labs
Clark School professor demonstrates outstanding scholarly achievement and accomplishments as teacher
Adi Hajj-Ahmad and Chau-Wai Wong are advised by Professor Min Wu.
Publication focuses on opportunities in mesoscale science.
Takeuchi leads team creating solid-state, highly efficient cooling systems.
Bioengineering graduate student studies imaging, simulations.
Twenty-two top students from across the country demonstrate faculty-advised research projects.
Event to showcase UMD research aimed at modernizing review of drugs and medical devices.
Experts tackle issues regarding energy security, nuclear energy, biomedical research, and science and technology.
Their novel "natural timestamp" improves security and editing of audio, visual recordings.
Clark School student wins Best Overall Project with automatic volume leveler.
Clark School teams won three out of four top prizes in technology commercialization competition.
Event will feature keynote by Former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell.
ECE professors elected fellows of world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
Government officials, industry representatives, prospective students attend Maryland Robotics Day.
Students present their accomplishments after 11-week research program.
Clark School team develops "smart" alloy for cooling systems.
Faculty and staff awards for teaching, service awards announced.
ChBE undergraduate brings One Laptop Per Child program to Madagascar.
Research Review Day showcases technology advancements in electrical and computer engineering.
Min Wu has received the prestigious IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg award for outstanding teaching.
Project focuses on model checking, abstract interpretation for embedded control, systems biology.
Ultra-sensitive devices for threat detection, biomedical apps earn Takeuchi, collaborators DARPA grant.
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University awards CivE professor
Doctor Honoris Causa.
OIT IT director and ECE/ME/ISR faculty honored for work in information assurance research.
Fellowship awarded to a grad student committed to an engineering teaching career.
Prevent Cancer Foundation to support Chen's biopsy guidance technique.
Est. 2006, Women in ECE fosters community among female students in department.
Clark School engineers discover new material to reduce lead in electronics, landfills.
Clark School students part of first-place team in international contest.
Six winners were selected from eight finalist teams.
Clark School/NIST collaboration works to make hydrogen fuel a practical reality.
Undergraduate presenters honored for their 11-week research internship projects.
ECE associate professor identified on publication's "40 Under 40" list.
Faculty recognized for digital fingerprinting, online opinion analysis technology.
Digital fingerprinting technique introduced by Clark School researchers.
IEEE is honoring a group of faculty and alumni for work in multimedia fingerprinting.
Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) faculty Howard Milchberg and Min Wu and have received research honors from the American Physics Society (APS) and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), respectively.
Assistant Professor Min Wu among world's 100 top young innovators, according to MIT's
Technology Review magazine.
A list of Clark school accomplishments for Spring 2002
Three teams in Clark School selected to receive Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grants from Department of Defense starting in fiscal year 2002
