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VDRI selects awardees for the 2021 FSE strategic interest seed funding program

The Vice Dean for Research and Innovation (VDRI) Office is pleased to announce 12 awardees for the 2021 Fulton Schools of Engineering (FSE) Strategic Interest Seed Funding Program: Working Collaboratively to Meet Future Needs. The response to this year’s seed funding initiative was impressive with a variety of topics and ideas presented by faculty across FSE…

Human systems engineering lab advances online learning research

Identifying best practices for effective online learning has become especially significant in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But even before the coronavirus outbreak, the Arizona State University Advanced Distributed Learning, or ADL, Partnership Lab was busy evaluating methods to improve the functionality and effectiveness of learning in an unconventional setting. The ASU ADL Partnership Lab, established in…

Soil liquefaction prevention technique turns in promising performance

TEAM FROM FULTON SCHOOLS GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER TESTING THE METHOD IN EARTHQUAKE-PRONE PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION Catastrophic damage to infrastructure and natural resource areas has been caused around the world by soil liquefaction. It’s what happens when water pressure increases in soils that have little or no cohesive strength — often as a result of…

Kory Hedman

Kory Hedman named director of the Power Systems Engineering Research Center

Kory Hedman, associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, has been named the new director of the Power Systems Engineering Research Center, or PSERC. Hedman will replace ASU Regents Professor Vijay Vittal, who has held the position for the last 15 years. 

Yanchao Zhang receives DURIP award to build drone-powered Internet of Things system

Yanchao Zhang and his research group, ASU’s Cyber and Network Security Group, received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award of $200,000 through the Army Research Office to build a drone-powered internet of things system for information assurance research and education. The internet of things is an emerging paradigm of technical, social and economic significance. In addition to…