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A prestigious list published by Elsevier, an international information and analytics company, has recognized 19 engineering faculty at the University of Oklahoma who are using their research expertise to create solutions for the world’s toughest challenges. Titled “Standardized Citation Metrics Author Database,” the list is updated yearly and is thought to be the only large-scale database that systematically ranks 100,000 of the most-cited scientists in the world.  “For more than 20 years, this database has been one of the few that ranks a researcher’s impact in their scientific field,” said John Klier, Ph.D., dean of the Gallogly College of Engineering. “The list is an indication of the very positive impact engineers and scientists are making in the world through dedicated research and commitment. I’m extremely pleased to see so many of our engineering faculty recognized.” A publicly available database can be found at updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation ...

Farrokh Mistree ( photo ), the L.A. Comp Chair and professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and five collaborators comprise “The CyberBorgs,” a research team selected as semifinalists in the software track for the Department of Energy's American-Made Solar Prize competition. They also won in the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion contest that focuses on disadvantaged communities. Mistree and Janet K. Allen, the John and Mary Moore Chair and a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, collaborate on a research program on rural development with CyberBorgs teammates Ashok Das of SunMoksha Clean Energy in India and John Hall at the University at Buffalo. The team's entry for the DOE competition is based on a technology developed by SunMoksha. The CyberBorgs are Mistree, Hall, Das and Ayushi Sharma with SunMoksha, Jit Mukherjee with Baanda, Inc., and Claudia Maldonado with Atrevida Science. The team will develop a cyber-physical-soc...

  Wei Chen, Ph.D., and Javier Jo, Ph.D., faculty in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, have been elected to the College of Fellows by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. The institute’s College of Fellows is composed of the top 2% of medical and biological engineers in the United States. Chen and Jo were elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for advancing the clinical translation of optical imaging and pioneering its integration with machine learning methods to enable personalized medicine.  “I want to congratulate these two outstanding engineering faculty who have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,” said John Klier, Ph.D., dean of the Gallogly College of Engineering. “AIMBE Fellows lead the way for technological growth and advancement in the fields of medical and biological engineering. We are extremely proud to have two of our faculty elected to this presti...

Everywhere you look engineering touches your daily life. The technology that powers your smartphone, the car you drive, the roads you travel on, the water you drink, the plane you fly in, and the technology of modern medicine are possible because of engineering advances. Our national defense, economic competitiveness, energy grid and communications depend on our engineering leadership. Now, consider what’s beyond your day-to-day reality. Targeted cancer therapies, abundant clean water, new hydrogen energy from natural gas, advanced radar to protect the homeland and advanced on-demand manufacturing technologies are just a few of the examples. There’s a future made possible by engineering that has the potential to enhance our way of life and grow economic opportunity in our state.  Civil, computer science, aerospace, architectural, electrical, industrial, mechanical, biomedical, chemical and petroleum engineering are all part of what makes the world go round. This year, Engineers Wee...

Hey! My name is Maysara AlShareef and I am from Oklahoma City, OK, and a graduate of Putnam City North High School. I am a sophomore in Chemical Bioengineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Just a few years ago, I had just been accepted to a few universities and had no clue about what to do next. Fast forward to a year later, I ended up transferring to OU from a different university. It had always been in the back of my mind that I truly felt at home here on the OU campus, so I finally made the big leap, and I couldn’t have been more right! Engineering solves real problems that matter!   STEM always felt like the right path for me—my mother is a medical lab scientist and my father is a mechanical engineer. I guess if you put the two together, they really do make a chemical bioengineer! I have always had a passion for the way things are made and for advancing the world from a medical perspective, it just seemed right. Why come to Norman? Well ...

Photo: Student research opportunities are boundless in the Gallogly College of Engineering. OU Assistant Professor Sepideh Razavi’s team includes, from left, Elton Lima Corriea, Aanahita Treaty Irani Ervin, Matthew Webb, Eduarda Barros De Oliveira, Razavi, Nick Brown, Emma Shields and Siddharth Thakur. At the start of the pandemic, University of Oklahoma researcher Sepideh Razavi remembers people frantically wiping down groceries, cleaning food packaging and sanitizing every surface possible.  Since then, the Food and Drug Administration has emphasized there is no real risk of getting the coronavirus that way (called fomite transmission). Razavi, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering, uses this example though to explain the importance of droplet wetting – how drops of fluids bead up or spread out when they come in contact with a surface. Dynamics of droplet wetting and spreading is not only impo...

The American Association of University Women awarded an international fellowship to computer science student Temitope Olorunfemi, PhD, who is pursuing her postdoctoral in natural and physical sciences at the University of Oklahoma. The fellowship is awarded to individuals because of their outstanding academic work and community projects that empower women and girls. Olorunfemi’s work focuses on women and girls in the rural areas of Southwestern Nigeria. She hopes to create an automated dialogue system designed in their local language, Yoruba, to be used to self-diagnose cervical cancer.  “Many women in rural Nigeria who speak the Yoruba language are very isolated due to poverty, physical distances, travel times, language and cultural barriers. If a smartphone app could be developed that would allow them to privately interact in their own native language, they could have a better idea of their risk for cervical cancer and could be encouraged and supported in seeking out appropriate ...

Researchers in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering at OU have developed a framework published in Science Advances that solves the challenge of bridging experimental and computer sciences to better predict peptide structures. Peptide-based materials have been used in energy, security and health fields for the past two decades. Handan Acar , the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at OU, teamed up with Andrew White, an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rochester, to introduce a new strategy to study fundamentals of molecular engineering. Seren Hamsici, a doctoral student in Acar’s lab, is the first author of the study. Proteins are responsible for the structure, function and regulation of the body’s organs and tissues. They are formed by amino acids and come together in different interactions, called intermolecular interactions, that are essential to how proteins perfo...