Swanson School labs donated supplies to fight COVID-19
The effort collected five pallets of personal protective equipment, such as masks, peroxide, sanitizers, eye protection and other supplies.
Swanson Lab Repurposes Equipment to Produce Sanitizer for UPMC
When labs at the Swanson School of Engineering closed for research purposes, Götz Veser (pictured), the Nickolas DeCecco Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and associate director of the Center for Energy, looked for a way his equipment could be put to use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Douglas J. Weber was inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows
It’s among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers.
2 Pitt Engineering students won ASCE awards
Kaitie DeOre and Michael Winiarczyk, both civil engineering students, were honored by the local section of the national society.
Graduate student Michael Sullivan won a Hammond Scholarship
The annual scholarship, which is in its fourth year, was open to any student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Swanson School.
A Pitt-led study calculating stress on rails was published in an ASME journal
The study was led by Piervincenzo Rizzo, professor of civil and environmental engineering.
A Swanson School solar project was selected for a US Department of Energy prize
The research team is evaluating new methods to improve the top glass sheet in solar panels.