Cybersecurity startup focuses on dark web

Fulton Schools researchers combining skills in venture to build defenses against malicious hackers.

Innovation and excellence

Famous physicist Stephen Hawking (foreground), disabled by neuromuscular disease, depended on scientists and engineers who developed the technologies that enabled him to overcome the loss of speech. Speech synthesis and acoustics experts who helped him included (from left behind Hawking) Arizona State University alum Michael Deisher and his colleagues, the late Edward Brucket and Corine Bickley, pictured here in 2005. Photograph courtesy of Michael Deisher.

Helping Hawking speak

Skills an Intel engineer gained as an ASU graduate student helped to give science luminary Stephen Hawking vital communication tools.

A row of award trophies in a line on a table

SSEBE honors distinguished alumni

The School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment hosted their Academy of Distinguished Alumni and Hall of Fame awards ceremony to honor alumni who have had stellar careers and given back to SSEBE programs.

Harvard University Professor George M. Whitesides and Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Dean Kyle Squires pose at the April 4 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture at ASU

Simple, soft robots

Soft robotics pioneer George M. Whitesides explains how elastic-like materials and air pressure can create lifelike and effective robots at the 2018 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture.

Flying cars are coming, and they’ll be autonomous

Fulton Schools professor Dan Bliss is developing navigation and positioning systems for flying cars, with test flights planned for the end of the year.

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Training teachers in STEM

The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College have paired up to embed engineering education into the preparation of middle school teachers with the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship.

Pioneering researcher wins global water award

Fulton Schools professor Bruce Rittmann earned international recognition when he was named a 2018 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for his seminal work with aquatic microorganisms.

A small group of Girl Scouts sit around a kiddy pool testing out their aluminum boats.

Inspiring female engineers

At GEAR Day, nearly 100 Girl Scouts learned what it’s like being an engineer with the help of members from the Fulton Schools’ Society of Women Engineers.

Chaitanya Kale accepts the Light Metals Division Magnesium Technology Award at the 147th Annual TMS Meeting for Best Student Paper

Student paper pioneers research on promising alloy

Fulton Schools graduate students presented seminal research on a lightweight alloy that could potentially replace aluminum and steel in vehicles.

Summer just got STEAMy!

Our Fulton Summer Academy programs for elementary, middle and high school students offer the opportunity to learn STEAM concepts–Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math–while having lots of hands-on fun!

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This week’s featured programs:

The Art of Invention: Chain-Reaction STEAM Machines for Middle Schoolers

The Art of Invention: Design Thinking & Creative Problem Solving for Middle Schoolers

The Art of Invention: Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving for High Schoolers

Innovation: Introduction to Making and Tinkering for Middle Schoolers

Innovation: Introduction to Making and Tinkering for High Schoolers

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