SEAS in the News

An article in The Wall Street Journal about the future of drone delivery services interviews Chase Murray, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, who said most of the things we order on Amazon don’t warrant the urgency of a drone mission, and in the early phase of drone delivery we’ll order up only things that we need within 15 minutes.

A story on WGRZ-TV reports a UB research team has designed EarlySee, an app to help detect autism spectrum disorder in children as young as 12 months of age, and interviews Wenyao Xu, associate professor of computer science and engineering

A front-page column in the Buffalo News featured alumnus Stephen Still (BS civil '76) who described how his transformational experiences as a UB undergraduate set him on a path toward a graduate degree at Princeton University and a successful management career in fleet and network planning for major airlines.

EDUCAUSE Review reports on a study co-authored by Lisa A. Stephens, assistant dean, digital education, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, on FLEXspace, Flexible Learning Environments eXchange, a searchable digital database of learning space designs, exemplars, and toolkits available to education communities.

An article in IEEE Spectrum on Facebook’s 60-GHz Terragraph technpology quotes Swetank Kumar Saha, a research assistant and PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, who has studied the performance of 60-GHz consumer gear for indoors.

A story on WIVB-TV and WIVB.com on student entrepreneurs from outside Western New York staying local to pursue startups interviewed two students from two companies, Classavo and ColdSpace, both started by UB students.