NEW PROGRAMS
Professor Leigh Abts (BioE/Education) and lecturer Idalis Villanueva developed a unique, interdisciplinary curriculum called "Energy 101" designed to challenge college students across the country to explore the science behind sound energy decision-making and to teach them to apply those skills to their own decisions. The initiative is a result of the collaborative efforts of the University of Maryland, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the Environment and Energy Study Institute (EESI). The curriculum will serve as a model for colleges nationwide. Learn more here.
The University of Maryland’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted a symposium on “Infrastructure & Community Resilience: Natural & Human-Caused Disasters.” The symposium, which was co-sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), drew attendees from the federal government, industry, and academia, and focused on how the states of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, and the District of Columbia could work together to improve regional community resilience to disasters. Learn more here.
The University of Maryland Morpheus Laboratory officially announced the establishment of the Alexander Brown Center for Adaptive Aerospace Vehicle Technology at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), Hampton, Virginia. The Center is located in the new NIA Research and Innovation Laboratories building, a 14-laboratory, 60,000-square-foot building that houses research and development facilities, including a wind tunnel and an unmanned aerial vehicles structures lab.
 Assistant Professor Alireza Khaligh (ECE/ISR) is the principal investigator for a new National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site, "Research Experiences in Transportation Electrification." The three-year, $355K program will bring talented undergraduates to the University of Maryland to gain basic research and laboratory experience in transportation electrification-related engineering projects. Khaligh is also co-PI on a two-year, $199K National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(TUES) grant and an award from the University of Maryland Sustainability Fund to develop an educational laboratory on hybrid electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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