FACULTY NEWS

Our faculty members continue to shine in their various endeavors. Read on for a brief overview of some of their accomplishments during the Fall 2022 semester.

Ahmet Akosman (ENGR) continued work on a NASA RI Consortium Seed Grant for the development of sensor platforms using THz negative curvature fibers

Chunyan Bai (COMSC) was a member of the ABET/CAC accreditation visiting team for their first on-site Computer Science evaluation since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

Janet Baldwin (ENGR) attended the national Society of Women Engineers conference in October, held in Houston, Texas, along with eight students

Maija Benitz (ENGR) became the faculty mentor for a newly formed student group, the Multicultural STEM Alliance, which aims to develop a sense of community and belonging for students of color in STEM across the entire RWU community

Sonya Cates (COMSC) created multimedia content for the most recent edition of Java Software Solutions, published by Pearson

Anne Anderson and Michael Emmer (CNST) took a team of students to the Associated Schools of Construction International Construction Management/Quantity Surveying competition at the Region 8 conference in Prague, Czech Republic

Amine Ghanem (CNST) advised two students that performed research focused on the COVID-19 impact on student learning and that submitted an accepted abstract to the Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference

Jonathan Gomes (CNST) is advising a computer science senior capstone project focused on a utility overlay and tracking mobile application for as-built utilities

Jung Hyun Lee (CNST) coached a student competition team that won 3rd place in the Design-Build group at the 2022 Associated Schools of Construction Region 1 Competition in Albany, NY

Lillian Jeznach (ENGR) collaborated with the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program to guide a SECCM student intern in research focused on collecting and analyzing microplastics in Rhode Island freshwaters

Pamela Judge (ENGR) earned support from the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program and will support a student intern to perform research focused on the potential for a net (made of 3D-printed soybean-based filament) to reduce soil erosion in an environmentally benign manner

Allison Marn (ENGR) developed a Bioinstrumentation course exploring concepts of electronic systems for biological measurements, which included students capturing and analyzing their own heart signals

Nicole Martino (ENGR) collaborated with the University of Rhode Island, the RIDOT, and the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center to investigate the feasibility of ground penetrating radar to evaluate the condition of asphalt pavements, specifically in areas with a high water table

Koray Özer (MATH) was named the SECCM Faculty Member of the Semester by the Student Senate

William Palm (ENGR) began his second year as the Director of the University Honors Program in which SECCM students now represent 15% of the incoming honors class

Issa Ramaji (CNST) founded the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) club to create a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration among various programs; in December, the club hosted a mixer event where students experienced Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality technologies in the context of the AEC industry

Anthony Ruocco (COMSC) was the Chair of two sessions at the IEEE Region 1/Region 2 Women in Engineering Forum held November 3-5, 2022, in Providence

Matthew Stein (ENGR) (who speaks intermediate French) lived in Nantes, France for three months while on a sabbatical at Ecole Centrale de Nantes; the project focused on constructing a dynamic model of a 2R robot arm using SolidWorks and Gazebo

Gordon Stewart (ENGR) and two Engineering students attended the North American Wind Energy Academy Conference at the University of Delaware in September and presented their work “Impacts of Wind/Wave Misalignment on Wake Meandering of Floating Wind Turbines”

Charles Thomas (ENGR) taught a Circuits Laboratory (outside of his area of expertise) for the first time (and loved doing so) while continuing to pursue his musical interests as a French Horn player for the Fall River Symphony Orchestra and Ocean State Pops Orchestra