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- - Engineering education pioneer named associate dean of equity and engagement
    A proud Hokie and a nationally renowned pioneer for advancing efforts in diversity and inclusion in engineering education, Bev Watford is excited about her new role as the Virginia Tech College of Engineering’s first associate dean of equity and engagement and the future of the enterprise she seeks to further impact.
- - In memoriam: Benjamin S. Blanchard Jr., professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering
    During his 26-year tenure, Blanchard became a full professor, helped establish the Virginia Cooperative Graduate Engineering Program, chaired the systems engineering graduate program, and was appointed assistant dean for the College of Engineering. He was named professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors in 1997.
- - FORWARD: Kevin Pei
    FORWARD is a series from Student Affairs featuring Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, and alumni who have faced, overcome, or learned from life's obstacles and setbacks. In this video, Virginia Tech senior Kevin Pei talks about learning to balance competing demands in college.
- - G. Don Taylor named interim vice president for research and innovation
    Taylor assumes this role following the resignation of Theresa Mayer, who was recently named executive vice president for research and partnerships at Purdue University.
- - Students win international vehicle safety design competition
    A group of engineering graduate students won the international championship for the 2019 Collegiate Student Safety Technology Design Competition, hosted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the Netherlands last week.
- - Alejandro Salado to study how engineers form subjective opinions from objective data
    Salado has received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development award to study the formation of engineers' beliefs during systems engineering verification activities and to identify patterns of trial-and-error that better enable engineers to capture their beliefs in information artifacts.
- - Student engineering team advances to global vehicle safety design competition
    A team of Virginia Tech engineering students is advancing to the global round of the Student Safety Technology Design Competition, sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They will present their prototype safety system aimed at reducing injuries for vehicle occupants during a rear-end collision.
- - Kiran Bagalkotkar named 2019 Outstanding Senior for the College of Engineering
    The industrial and systems engineering major has spent her collegiate career as a consistent academic achiever, an avid researcher, and dedicated leader.
- - College of Engineering inducts four members into the Academy of Engineering Excellence
    Virginia Tech's College of Engineering inducted four new members at its 20th annual Academy of Engineering Excellence. The academy consists of 156 alumni out of Virginia Tech's approximately 68,000 living engineering alumni who have achieved exceptional career successes.
- - Researchers aim to enhance lost person search and rescue efforts using drones, artificial intelligence
    Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a group of Virginia Tech engineers hopes to redefine search and rescue protocols by teaming up human searchers with unmanned aerial robots, or drones.
- - Researchers develop method to improve 3D-printed prosthetics by integrating electronic sensors
    A Virginia Tech professor and his interdisciplinary team of undergraduate student researchers have made inroads in integrating electronic sensors with personalized 3D-printed prosthetics — a development that could one day lead to more affordable electric-powered prosthetics.
- - UPS combined giving tops $1 million for engineering graduate education
    For the past 22 years, the United Parcel Service Foundation has supported graduate education at Virginia Tech, awarding 28 fellowships now totaling over $1 million.
- - Researchers will explore understanding of complex systems among engineering students, professionals
    Virginia Tech researchers have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study cognitive reasoning and thinking skills for both engineering students and working professional engineers.
- - Hanumanthrao “Rao” Kannan appointed assistant professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Kannan's research is focused on developing new mathematical foundations of systems engineering with particular emphasis on decision-making.
- - Xiaowei Yue appointed assistant professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Yue's research focuses on real-time data or "big data" generated from complex systems that provide unprecedented opportunities for improving complex system operations.
- - C. Patrick Koelling honored with emeritus status
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1987, Koelling was principal or co-principal investigator on both government and commercial grants and research projects on applications of industrial engineering totaling more than $10 million.
- - Home of the future takes first place at international competition
    After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home.
- - House of the future and team that built it head to international competition
    FutureHAUS Dubai, an innovative, interdisciplinary, and ambitious project to design and build a futuristic, modular smart home, is the lone American team competing against 14 other university teams at the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai.
- - Myounghoon Jeon appointed associate professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Jeon’s research is focused on human-computer and human-robot interactions, specifically how to bring more human features, like emotions and learning, into computer programs and robots.
- - What do drones, augmented reality, and quadditch have in common?
    Virginia Tech received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to study the use of unmanned aircraft systems for inspection of civil infrastructure.

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