Spring 2020

Tracking a silent killer

Tracking a silent killer

ASU’s Ariane Middel receives NSF CAREER award for work in urban climate and heat mitigation, and how people are responding to urban climate changes

Making computers smarter, more helpful

Making computers smarter, more helpful

Robert LiKamWa’s Meteor Studio designs software and hardware systems to improve mobile devices, especially visual perception on augmented reality devices

Teaching robots to dance

Teaching robots to dance

Wenlong Zhang’s award-winning research at ASU is stepping up the possibilities for machine collaboration with people

Decoding design

Decoding design

Decoding design Nanotechnology is a hot topic in the engineering world. Discoveries at this tiny scale — meaning billionths of a meter, or the distance that fingernails grow each second — are inspiring optical and electronic innovations in fields ranging from medicine...

Making robots accessible to all

Making robots accessible to all

Making robots accessible to allThe robots we see depicted in popular culture, like R2-D2 from Star Wars or WALL-E, tend to be expensive, generalist robots. The high cost of developing and acquiring these mechanical helpers, in both time and money, makes them...

Helping build sustainable environments

Helping build sustainable environments

In his new role as director of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Professor Ram Pendyala says he is prioritizing efforts to provide more opportunities for students through expanded curricula, internships, industry alliances, research opportunities, online courses and professional development programs.

Modifying the manufacturing mindset

Modifying the manufacturing mindset

By applying huge amounts of manufacturing data to support real-time decision-making, Feng Ju and his team are developing new tools to prevent production disruptions, enhancing production efficiency, quality and safety.
Feng Ju and his team at ASU’s Manufacturing and Service Automation Lab are developing data tools to advance factory operations and minimize production disruptions.
By applying manufacturing data for real-time decision-making, Feng Ju is developing methods to prevent production disruptions and improve efficiency, quality and safety.