UAH - College of Engineering - Chemical and Materials - News - app /eng/departments/cme/news Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:06:54 -0600 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb webmaster@uah.edu (UAH) UAH researcher wins $1.2M NSF grant to address the environmental challenge of “forever chemicals” /eng/departments/cme/news/19921-uah-researcher-wins-1-2m-nsf-grant-to-address-the-environmental-challenge-forever-chemicals /eng/departments/cme/news/19921-uah-researcher-wins-1-2m-nsf-grant-to-address-the-environmental-challenge-forever-chemicals

Dr. Yu Lei, a professor in the College of Engineering at app, a part of The University of Alabama System, has won a $1.2 million National Science Foundation (NSF)

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CME News Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:08:21 -0600
UAH, UA receive NSF planning grant for SMART center to help manufacturers incorporate advanced tech /eng/departments/cme/news/19775-uah-ua-receive-nsf-planning-grant-for-smart-center-to-help-manufacturers-incorporate-advanced-tech /eng/departments/cme/news/19775-uah-ua-receive-nsf-planning-grant-for-smart-center-to-help-manufacturers-incorporate-advanced-tech Members of the UAH SMART team are, left to right, Dr. Ana Wooley, assistant professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (ISEEM); Dr. Nicholas Loyd, clinical associate professor, ISEEM; Dr. Vineetha Menon, associate professor, Department of Computer Science; Dr. Howard Chen, assistant professor, ISEEM; team leader Dr. Judith Schneider, professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; adjunct, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, and director, Materials Science Program, and Dr. Cheng Chen, assistant professor, ISEEM.

app (UAH) and The University of Alabama (UA) have partnered in a new initiative: Smart Manufacturing using AI-based Revolutionary Technologies (SMART).

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CME News Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:08:21 -0500
app student group set to launch new instrument payload on NASA rocket to study harnessing reentry heat and converting it to electrical energy /eng/departments/cme/news/19608-uah-student-group-set-to-launch-new-instrument-payload-on-nasa-rocket-to-study-harnessing-reentry-heat-and-converting-it-to-electrical-energy /eng/departments/cme/news/19608-uah-student-group-set-to-launch-new-instrument-payload-on-nasa-rocket-to-study-harnessing-reentry-heat-and-converting-it-to-electrical-energy

The Terminus Spaceflight Research Group at app (UAH) is set to send a new payload into space, a follow-up to the successful launch and retrieval of a previous Terminus payload in Aug. 2024.

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CME News Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:08:21 -0500
UAH announces promotion, tenure awards for 2025-26, past year’s grants of emeritus status /eng/departments/cme/news/19531-uah-announces-promotion-tenure-awards-for-2025-26-past-year-s-grants-of-emeritus-status /eng/departments/cme/news/19531-uah-announces-promotion-tenure-awards-for-2025-26-past-year-s-grants-of-emeritus-status Promotion and tenure emeritus awards 2025

app (UAH) announced awards of tenure and/or promotion for 22 faculty members and recognized eight who were granted emeritus status over the past year at the University Awards for Excellence.

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CME News Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:08:21 -0500
UAH recognizes 11 inventors who received 9 patent awards during 2024-2025 year /eng/departments/cme/news/19503-uah-recognizes-11-inventors-who-received-9-patent-awards-during-2024-2025-year /eng/departments/cme/news/19503-uah-recognizes-11-inventors-who-received-9-patent-awards-during-2024-2025-year 12 desk plaques to 11 inventors from two colleges and four departments at UAH in recognition of patents issued in the past year.

app (UAH) honored the significant achievements of 11 inventors from two colleges and four departments who have been awarded patents during the past year.

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CME News Thu, 22 May 2025 08:08:21 -0500
UAH researchers use adhesive tape to generate electricity for low-cost, self-powered wearable biosensors and energy harvesting /eng/departments/cme/news/19475-uah-researchers-use-adhesive-tape-generate-electricity-low-cost-self-powered-wearable-biosensors-and-energy-harvesting /eng/departments/cme/news/19475-uah-researchers-use-adhesive-tape-generate-electricity-low-cost-self-powered-wearable-biosensors-and-energy-harvesting A circuit board displays UAH using colorful beads, with wires connected to a nearby component on a dark surface

A research team at app (UAH) has published a new paper in American Chemical Society Omega that demonstrates inexpensive store-bought tape can be used to craft a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) capable of harvesting electrical energy from various sources.

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CME News Mon, 12 May 2025 08:08:21 -0500
UAH researcher awarded Early-Career Fellowship to study changes in water quality in Mobile watershed /eng/departments/cme/news/19328-uah-researcher-awarded-early-career-fellowship-to-study-changes-in-water-quality-in-mobile-watershed /eng/departments/cme/news/19328-uah-researcher-awarded-early-career-fellowship-to-study-changes-in-water-quality-in-mobile-watershed Dog River Watershed in Mobile, Ala. The region encompasses a 95-square-mile area that drains into Mobile Bay and the Gulf coast.

Dr. Paresh Samantaray, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at The University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH), has won a National Academies Early-Career Research Fellowship to study changes over time in the water quality of the Dog River Watershed in Mobile, Ala.

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CME News Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:17:28 -0600
UAH hosts 4th Annual Engineering Showcase to celebrate Engineers Week 2025 /eng/departments/cme/news/19292-uah-hosts-4th-annual-engineering-showcase-to-celebrate-engineers-week-2025 /eng/departments/cme/news/19292-uah-hosts-4th-annual-engineering-showcase-to-celebrate-engineers-week-2025 The fourth annual UAH Engineering Showcase will feature students from senior design, student organizations/competition teams and undergraduate research presenting their work, projects and competitions.

app (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is hosting the fourth annual UAH Engineering Showcase during Engineers Week 2025, Feb. 16 – 22.

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CME News Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:17:28 -0600
Society of Women Engineers honors UAH alumna, student with Distinguished New Engineer Awards /eng/departments/cme/news/19077-society-of-women-engineers-honors-uah-alumna-student-with-distinguished-new-engineer-awards /eng/departments/cme/news/19077-society-of-women-engineers-honors-uah-alumna-student-with-distinguished-new-engineer-awards Shela Joyce, left, an alumna of app (UAH), and Rachel Carter Snoddy, a app student

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) honored an alumna and a student of app (UAH) with Distinguished New Engineer Awards. Alumna Shela Joyce and student Rachel Carter Snoddy.

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CME News Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:17:28 -0600
UAH Alumni Association celebrates 7 outstanding graduates at annual awards dinner /eng/departments/cme/news/18940-uah-alumni-association-celebrates-7-outstanding-graduates-at-annual-awards-dinner /eng/departments/cme/news/18940-uah-alumni-association-celebrates-7-outstanding-graduates-at-annual-awards-dinner app  Alumni Association at the app campus: left to right, Walter Woltosz, Amanda Clark, Dixiana Berrios, Alice Lessmann, Steven Norwood, De’Onah Norfleet and Angelear Warren.

app (UAH) Alumni Association celebrated the personal and professional successes of seven UAH graduates at the 2024 Alumni of Achievement Awards Dinner, held Sept. 19 on the app campus.

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CME News Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:53:07 -0500