SEAS in the News

An article on Tech Xplore reports on research by James Chen, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, aimed at solving problems associated with exceeding the sound barrier.

An article on SPIE, the website for the International Society for Optics and Photonics, reports on a study noting advancements in 3D-printing patient-specific models to help doctors assess coronary artery disease. Lauren Shepard and Kelsey Sommer, both doctoral students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, were among the study’s authors.

An article on CNET about a failed Soviet spacecraft that was supposed to travel to the surface of Venus in 1972 but failed to escape the pull of Earth’s gravity, and the one large piece of that spacecraft that appears to still be orbiting the planet and may soon crash to Earth, interviews John Crassidis, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics published a story highlighting the work of Margarete Jadamec, assistant professor of geology and a faculty member in UB's Computational and Data-enabled Science and Engineering Program.

An article on Futurity reports on research by Jun Zhuang, professor of industrial and systems engineering, that suggests that federal fire grant spending could be more balanced by adding the losses associated with human fatalities and injuries into how structure fires are calculated.

An article in Business First reports Abani Patra, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and founding director of UB’s PhD program in computational and data enabled sciences and engineering, has been named director of the Center for Computational Research.