Sri Hari Jayakumar, Sheran Dass and Akshay Kumar Dileep, three Fulton Schools graduate students and friends from Chennai, India, took inspiration from their own college application experience to win an award in their first U.S. hackathon competition — Sunhacks 2019, hosted at ASU in September. Sunhacks, an ASU student-run hackathon, aims to bring together people…
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Fulton Schools alumni negotiate $500,000 in funding on Shark Tank
Congratulations to two Fulton Schools alumni out of The Polytechnic School — Jake Slatnick, technological entrepreneurship and management, and Eric Goodchild, electrical and embedded software engineering — who negotiated a $500,000, three-Shark deal on the October 14, 2019, episode of Shark Tank. As an early TEM major — in the first class, on the first…
Rashmeet Kaur Nayyar receives Chambliss medal from American Astronomical Society
Rashmeet Kaur Nayyar, a computer science doctoral student in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, is one of three ASU graduate students to have been awarded prestigious 2020 Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards by the American Astronomical Society. Santosh Harish, and Mansi Padave from ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration are the other two. Chambliss…
ASU spinout EnKoat earns NSF Small Business Innovation Research award
EnKoat, an advanced materials venture founded by ASU alumni Aashay Arora and Matthew Aguayo, recently won a $225,000 National Science Foundation Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award, a highly selective seed funding program known as SBIR. The award supports the further development of EnKoat’s energy-efficient building coatings. The venture’s energy-saving technology embedded in paint, plaster and stucco can…
Two computer science alumni create project-based community Quaranteam to help peers gain developer skills
Projects and internships set computer science students apart from one another when applying for jobs. They provide real-world development experience to complement theory-based courses. As the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts the plans of many computer science students and graduates to build skills through internships, two Arizona State University alumni have a solution: Quaranteam. Dhantin Kumar and Kaan Aksoy, who…
ASU student wins Changemaker Challenge with EPICS project
Lidija Buchanan, a chemical engineering student, won first place in the Changemaker Challenge with her Engineering Projects In Community Service, or EPICS, project. The team, of which she is currently the sole member, aims to ease one of Phoenix’s food deserts by making fresh produce more accessible. The win earns the project $10,000 for further development…
Robotics submarine team Desert WAVE places second at International RoboSub competition
On August 30, Arizona State University’s award-winning robotics submarine team, Desert WAVE, competed and won second place overall in the 23rd International RoboSub Competition. In lieu of an in-person competition, teams were evaluated on a video, website and technical design report. Desert WAVE had top finishes in all of these categories. Overall Final Ranking: Second Place Website: Second…
Elizabeth Jones accepts Society of Women Engineers Outstanding Collegiate Member Award
The Society of Women Engineers has recognized Elizabeth Jones of Arizona State University for her impact on the Society as well as the engineering community with the SWE Outstanding Collegiate Member Award. Jones will accept the award at SWE’s annual conference, WE20, which will be held virtually from Tuesday, November 3–Saturday, November 14, 2020. The SWE…
How the semester is shaping up for graphic information technology faculty and students
It has been about a month since the start of the Fall 2020 semester. Faculty and students all had expectations for this semester, whether it be the first or last or somewhere in between. Here in the graphic information technology program, those expectations are nothing short of being met. The program is already taught entirely…
ASU doctoral student earns Idaho National Lab Graduate Fellowship
Tanner Yorgason, a doctoral student studying materials science and engineering, has won an Idaho National Laboratory Graduate Fellowship, a two-year program that supports students completing their dissertation research. Yorgason completed an internship with INL in 2018 at the lab facility while working toward a master’s degree and found the experience to be a gateway into the…