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- LSU Mechanical Engineering Faculty Marvel Honored by ASM InternationalJanuary 24, 2024BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Christopher Marvel was recently selected as ASM International's 2023 Bronze Medal Award recipient. The award is presented annually to ASM members who are early in their careers--10 years or less--for their significant contributions to "the field of materials science and engineering through technical content and service to ASM and the materials science profession."
- LSU Civil Engineering PhD Student Researches Lithium Battery SafetyDecember 21, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Lithium-ion batteries are used in many popular products today, such as cell phones, toys, appliances, electric vehicles, and even electrical energy storage systems. As the demand for these lithium-powered products grows, so does concern for consumer safety. LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) PhD student Edris Akbari is working with his doctoral advisor, LSU CEE Department Chair and Boyd Professor George Voyiadjis, to enhance safety considerations and propel advancements in predictive models for the mechanical behavior of lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells.
- LSU Mechanical Engineering Faculty Marvel Honored by ASM InternationalJanuary 24, 2024BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Christopher Marvel was recently selected as ASM International's 2023 Bronze Medal Award recipient. The award is presented annually to ASM members who are early in their careers--10 years or less--for their significant contributions to "the field of materials science and engineering through technical content and service to ASM and the materials science profession."
- LSU Civil Engineering PhD Student Researches Lithium Battery SafetyDecember 21, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Lithium-ion batteries are used in many popular products today, such as cell phones, toys, appliances, electric vehicles, and even electrical energy storage systems. As the demand for these lithium-powered products grows, so does concern for consumer safety. LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) PhD student Edris Akbari is working with his doctoral advisor, LSU CEE Department Chair and Boyd Professor George Voyiadjis, to enhance safety considerations and propel advancements in predictive models for the mechanical behavior of lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells.
- LSU Computer Science, IBM Studying More Effective Data Collection, Analysis, and Sharing MethodsDecember 19, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - As various industry sectors continue their adoption of big data analytics, privacy concerns have grown accordingly. Traditional centralized data analytics require data collection and sharing, which opens the door to leaks and hacks. Federated Analytics (FA), on the other hand, presents a more attractive option for collaborative data science, as it does not collect data to a centralized server.
- LSU Computer Science PhD Student Uses Coding to Create Holiday AlbumDecember 12, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Imagine hearing a song that reminds you of Christmas but isn't actually a Christmas song. LSU Computer Science PhD student Matthew Wright realized that certain notes and chords mimic holiday music, even if the result is a song that doesn't exist. Using coding techniques he learned in his computer science (CS) classes, Wright is "composing" eight songs for a holiday album set to be released soon.
- LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Studies Impact of CO2 Storage on GroundwaterDecember 11, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Frank Tsai was recently awarded a $489,848 Experimental Research grant from the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation to study the potential impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) storage in Louisiana's porous rocks on drinking water, water supplies, and the environment. Tsai, who is the director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute, is working with a research team to uncover any hidden dangers.
- LSU Construction Management, NASA Researchers Exploring Use of Lunar Materials for Extraterrestrial Robotic ConstructionDecember 4, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - In 2025, NASA's Artemis 3 will mark humanity's first return to the Moon since December 1972. The goal of the program is to land two astronauts on the surface of the Moon in order to explore its south pole and begin the process of establishing a long-term presence there.
- LSU Petroleum, Mechanical Engineering Professors Developing Leakage Sensor for CCS Sites, CO2 PipelinesNovember 27, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a way of reducing carbon emissions by capturing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by power generation or industrial activity; compressing and transporting it via pipelines, trucks, or ships; and then storing it deep underground in geological formations, such as saline aquifers or depleted oil and gas reservoirs. While CCS has proven to be mostly safe, there is always a chance of leakage.
- LSU Engineering Researchers Seek Advancements in Underwater ConstructionNovember 15, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - In 2022, the average global sea level reached a record high at 101.2 millimeters--four inches above 1993 levels. That same year, the National Weather Service recorded an all-time high of 13 "significant weather events." Both of these statistics signal a greater challenge when it comes to the resiliency of coastal communities and their infrastructure, but it's one a pair of LSU Engineering researchers are taking on through a nearly $500,000 National Science Foundation Future Manufacturing Award.
- LSU Construction Management Professor, Team Research Solar Energy in LANovember 9, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Louisiana has more sunny days than the national average, so why not put all of that summer heat to good use? Realizing the potential to harness the Sun's energy, LSU Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management Assistant Professor Arup Bhattacharya is researching solar power farming in the state thanks to a $94,000 grant from the Institute for Energy Innovations.
- LSU Researchers Examining Power Grid Inequity in Disadvantaged NOLA CommunitiesOctober 31, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Oftentimes, when a state or region's power grid is discussed, the words innovation, resilience, reliability, etc., are mentioned. But there's another equally important term that is the focus of a research project by LSU Electrical Engineering and LSU Sociology faculty--equity.
- LSU Electrical Engineering Researcher Looks to Bolster EV Charging InfrastructureOctober 23, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - One critique about electric vehicles (EV) is the lengthy charging times. Fast-charging stations can overcome this issue. However, installing them imposes an additional load on the electric power grid. For instance, when EV owners choose to charge their vehicle may coincide with peak load times for the grid. This can result in a strain on the grid and eventually, power outages and stability issues.
- Mechanical Engineering Researchers Developing New Football Helmet PrototypeOctober 17, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - In the winter of 2019, the National Football League hosted its Helmet Challenge Symposium in Youngstown, Ohio, bringing together 300 engineers, manufacturing experts, and innovators from across the country. The goal of that event was to foster collaboration among an array of experts in various fields, with the desired outcome being a safer football helmet.
- Gao Receives LAMDA Research AwardOctober 16, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Tong Gao, a postdoctoral associate in the LSU Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, recently received a Louisiana Materials Design Alliance, or LAMDA, Seed Track 1C Postdoctoral Research Award.
- LSU Researchers Receive $1.1M to Create Cyberinfrastructure to Improve Disaster ResilienceOctober 6, 2023BATON ROUGE - In the quest to build more disaster resilient communities, good data is a powerful tool. But while information on everything from climate to cell phone usage is available today, finding the right data in a usable format presents an obstacle for many researchers.
- LSU Chemical Engineering Researchers' New Recycling Process Published in Angewandte ChemieOctober 4, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - In a recently published paper in Angewandte Chemie, LSU Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Kunlun Ding and his research group detail a new concept for recycling plastic waste.
- LSU Industrial Engineering Grad Student Interns With TeslaOctober 4, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU Industrial Engineering graduate student Min Pun is braving the Texas heat while he interns at Tesla's Gigafactory Texas in Austin this fall. Pun, who is originally from Nepal, has worked for Tesla before and jumped at the chance to have an internship there again.
- Computer Science's Baumgartner Part of National Cloud Computing ProjectSeptember 29, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU is one of several institutions that will be partnering soon with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Microsoft Corp., and Micron Technology to make computational chemistry broadly available to applied researchers and industrial users.
- LSU, Tulane Researchers Synthesize Ultrasmall Nanoshells for Improved Biomedical ImagingSeptember 21, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - Researchers from LSU's Cain Department of Chemical Engineering and Tulane University's Biomedical Engineering Department synthesized sub-100 nm gold nanoshells, i.e., particles with silica cores covered by a thin gold shell, and used them to improve the penetration depth of photoacoustic imaging. Gold nanoshells are promising candidates for biomedical imaging and cancer therapy, but synthetic challenges have limited their diameters to greater than 100 nm for more than 20 years. LSU chemical engineers synthesized 62 nm nanoshells and collaborated with Tulane biomedical engineers to demonstrate a 50% improvement in the photoacoustic imaging depth compared to current state-of-the-art nanoshells.
- LSU, SIU Researchers Examine Better Spectrum Sharing ModelingSeptember 20, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - It may be taken for granted on a daily basis, but a worldwide increase in spectrum usage has made spectrum sharing an important economic topic. At the heart of that topic is ensuring that spectrum management mechanisms are efficient, fair, and maintain user privacy.
- LSU Petroleum Engineering Professor, Research Team Seek to Plug Orphan Wells Leaking MethaneSeptember 19, 2023BATON ROUGE, LA - There are currently more than 4,500 orphan oil wells in Louisiana, meaning oil companies have abandoned them for one reason or another, namely for not making money. Nearly 450 of these wells were tagged "orphan" in 1994, which means they have been dormant and possibly leaking methane gas for nearly 30 years.
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