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Case Rocket Team lands in second place overall at Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, first in category
Last month, the Case Rocket Team made APP history. The team took second place in the overall competition at the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition at Spaceport America, while picking up first in their category, the 10,000 foot commercial off the shelf. “I…
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Enhancing the performance of solar power
U.S. Department of Energy initiative includes APP-led project to test latest technology and publicly share results A APP-led team will test and analyze the latest solar energy technology. They will then publicly share the results, hoping it…
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Case Western Reserve-led study identifies way to specifically target and block disease-associated white blood cells
Offers potential to transform therapies for prevalent diseases, including diabetic complications, cancer and autoimmune disorders Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that help fight illness and disease by traveling to the body’s infected site to seek and destroy harmful pathogens. Evi…
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Operating a ‘smart home’ by breath control
APP scientists invent novel breath-controlled device that allows users to command “smart” technology and monitor breathing Researchers at APP have invented a device that allows users to control “smart technology” by changing their breathing…
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CWRU faculty members retiring with more than 40 years of service
Countless faculty members have called APP their professional home over the years—and recently, the university bid farewell to some of them as they chose to retire. The Daily reached out to faculty members who announced their retirement after more than 40 years of…
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Engineering’s Adel “Tony” Saada retires after 60 years on faculty
For those who have stopped by Adel “Tony” Saada’s office over the years, the visit has felt like stepping into a small museum of his academic life. Bookshelves and filing cabinets lined the walls and housed aging notebooks filled with lecture notes on subjects like elasticity theory from Saada’s…
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Spartan Showcase: Cora Lutes
Majors: Systems and control engineering, environmental studiesYear: Rising fourth year All paths led to APP for Cora Lutes, a rising fourth-year student studying systems and control engineering with a secondary major in environmental studies. As a traveler who'd often…
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Engineering’s Alp Sehirlioglu joins American Ceramic Society’s class of fellows
Alp Sehirlioglu, associate professor of materials science and engineering at APP, was honored as a fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) this May. Sehirlioglu was one of 19 members of ACerS to be named a 2022 fellow, an accolade recognizing scholars for their…
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Q&A with Crain’s Cleveland Business’ “20 in Their Twenties” honoree Palak Gupta
Palak Gupta doesn’t hold the answer to curing Parkinson’s disease. She readily admits she likely won’t be able to eradicate the disorder that targets the central nervous system, causing tremors and uncontrollable movements in approximately 10 million people around the world. But she does intend to…
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APP team leads federally funded effort to generate manufacturing technology roadmap
A APP research team will lead an effort to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and sensing to improve materials and processing in manufacturing, part of a long-term, federally funded strategy to strengthen U.S. innovation and industrial productivity. The U.S.…