The School of Engineering released its 2017 Impact Report this week, with copies being mailed to 800 engineering deans and associate deans across the country as part of the School’s initiative to enhance reputation and awareness of UD as a top-tier engineering research institution. Printed copies were distributed to all faculty and staff. Extras are available through the associate dean’s office and a digital version will be posted online by the end of the week. Postcard mailers and ads in the daily First Bell newsletter published by the American Society for Engineering Education rounded out the campaign. Those ads featured the work of UD researchers Mikhail Vorontsov, Vijayan Ansari and Tarek Taha.
KEEN to Change Engineering Education
Engineering education leaders from across the country gathered in Dayton as The University of Dayton hosted the annual KEEN Leader Meeting September 27-29. Participants arriving on campus Thursday morning got a taste of the Marianist spirit as they were welcomed at the Chapel by a chain of engineering student Ambassadors who guided the arrivals to Kennedy Union, site of their meeting. Read what happened here.
More from the KEEN Network
President Eric Spina and Dean Eddy Rojas visited with representatives of The Kern Family Foundation last week to present the University’s grant request for the next funding cycle. The Foundation funds the work of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). The presentation went well and UD should learn the results of the request in November. Also, two UD faculty members were featured in the latest issue of KEENzine, the Network’s magazine. Sid Gunasekaran co-authored an article on how he brings entrepreneurially-minded learning to his introductory aerodynamics class and Ken Bloemer was featured in an article on KEEN leaders. You can read the magazine online here.
Rolling into Book Deserts
The Conscious Connect, a non-profit literacy group striving to eliminate book deserts in the Dayton area, partnered with the Innovation Center at the School of Engineering to construct Words on Wheels, a mobile library used to deliver books during public events. Words on Wheels was officially unveiled at a Springfield City Schools’s home football game in September, where volunteers distributed 400 free culturally-relevant books. Check out the full story as covered by WDTN Channel 2.
Comfort Selected for Academic Leadership Program
The Society of Women Engineers has selected Kristen Comfort, assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering, to attend its Academic Leadership for Women Engineers program held as part of its annual conference this month in Austin, Texas. Selection is competitive and includes a travel grant, free conference registration, academic leadership training and mentoring. The program is underwritten by the NSF and Luce Foundation. Congratulations, Kristen!
Vasquez Selected for Career Development Award
Erick Vasquez has also been notified by Great Minds in STEM that he has been awarded an NSF-sponsored ASSIST travel grant to attend the 2017 Great Minds in STEM Engineering Faculty Career Symposium taking place in Pasadena, California this month as part of the HENAAC Conference. The program offers seminars, networking and mentoring to promising early-career faculty from traditionally underserved populations to support their teaching, research and tenure aspirations. Congratulations, Erick!
SoE Baby News
Congratulations to Bob Lowe and his wife on the birth of a son, Ryan Robert, born Oct. 3 weighing 6.5 pounds. Everyone is home and doing well.
The School of Engineering released its 2017 Impact Report this week, with copies being mailed to 800 engineering deans and associate deans across the country as part of the School’s initiative to enhance reputation and awareness of UD as a top-tier engineering research institution. Printed copies were distributed to all faculty and staff. Extras are available through the associate dean’s office and a digital version will be posted online by the end of the week. Postcard mailers and ads in the daily First Bell newsletter published by the American Society for Engineering Education rounded out the campaign. Those ads featured the work of UD researchers Mikhail Vorontsov, Vijayan Ansari and Tarek Taha.
Engineering education leaders from across the country gathered in Dayton as The University of Dayton hosted the annual KEEN Leader Meeting September 27-29. Participants arriving on campus Thursday morning got a taste of the Marianist spirit as they were welcomed at the Chapel by a chain of engineering student Ambassadors who guided the arrivals to Kennedy Union, site of their meeting. Read what happened 
The Conscious Connect, a non-profit literacy group striving to eliminate book deserts in the Dayton area, partnered with the Innovation Center at the School of Engineering to construct Words on Wheels, a mobile library used to deliver books during public events. Words on Wheels was officially unveiled at a Springfield City Schools’s home football game in September, where volunteers distributed 400 free culturally-relevant books. Check out the full story as covered by 
The Society of Women Engineers has selected Kristen Comfort, assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering, to attend its Academic Leadership for Women Engineers program held as part of its annual conference this month in Austin, Texas. Selection is competitive and includes a travel grant, free conference registration, academic leadership training and mentoring. The program is underwritten by the NSF and Luce Foundation. Congratulations, Kristen!
Erick Vasquez has also been notified by Great Minds in STEM that he has been awarded an NSF-sponsored ASSIST travel grant to attend the 2017 Great Minds in STEM Engineering Faculty Career Symposium taking place in Pasadena, California this month as part of the HENAAC Conference. The program offers seminars, networking and mentoring to promising early-career faculty from traditionally underserved populations to support their teaching, research and tenure aspirations. Congratulations, Erick!
Congratulations to Bob Lowe and his wife on the birth of a son, Ryan Robert, born Oct. 3 weighing 6.5 pounds. Everyone is home and doing well.