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Efficiently Disassembling End-of-Use Products

December 8, 2020

Sara Behdad, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create human-robot collaboration (HRC) and improve the disassembly of end-of-use products. Remanufacturing is an industrial process that takes an old or used product and […]

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Major grant launches new project to advance global soil science

October 23, 2020

This article was written by Miles Grant and originally published on the Woodwell Climate Research Center website. Kathe Todd-Brown, Ph.D., an assistant professor of environmental engineering sciences, and her team will try to increase the availability of high quality data and analysis tools to help farmers optimize their soil management strategies. Farmers around the world could […]

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Measuring the New Normal Post COVID-19

July 9, 2020

The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic forced the world to shut down for months. Homes turned into classrooms, work places and restaurants. Now, as America continues to reopen, people are adjusting to a new normal when entering public places and interacting with others. Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure […]

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