Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) and his research on modular construction were featured in episode 38 of "Inside Modular" (the Podcast of Commercial Modular Construction) by Modular Building Institute (MBI).
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has written an article, "A Collapsing Academy, Part III: Scientometrics and Metric Mania," that appears in the March issue of IEEE Computer. This is the third installment of a six-part series written by Berghel that describes the challenges and threats that face higher education today.
Sue Wainscott (Libraries) is the 2022 recipient of the McPhee Librarian of the Year Award from the University Libraries. Wainscott was nominated for her dedication and innovative approaches to librarianship that contribute to making University Libraries a respected and valuable part of the university and Las Vegas communities. She often serves as…
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) received a grant from the Construction Industry Institute (CII) as principal investigator. He will develop a new modularization business case analysis tool that can determine the optimal extent of modularization for a given project considering new business drivers with his…
Rubaiya Murshed and Shubhra Bansal (both Mechanical Engineering) have published a journal paper on Perovskite photovoltaic material, "Additive-Assisted Optimization in Morphology and Optoelectronic
Properties of Inorganic Mixed Sn-Pb Halide Perovskites." This paper was published in Materials in January. Murshed is a doctoral student.
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was interviewed by Zena Ryder for the Modular Building Institute. Zena interviewed him about his work and research on modular construction, and his experience in and around the modular construction industry, which is published in the latest issue (March/April 2022) of…
Shashi Nambisan (Transportation Research Center and Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering and Construction), along with Andrew Bennett, director of the Clark County office of traffic safety, was featured on Vegas PBS's Nevada Week program (season 4, episode 32) that discussed speeding behaviors of motorists on roadways in Southern Nevada…
Taylor Finelli (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the Fall 2021 Cover Artwork Award from
Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal.
The office of undergraduate research solicits student submissions to have a student-designed cover for each spring and fall issue. The competitive award intends to foster student participation in the…
The College of Engineering Advising Center (Engineering), led by Chris Parker, was selected as the recipient of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Region 9 Excellence in Advising - Advising Innovation Award, based on their classroom visits initiative. The team has been doing classroom visits over the past few years…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) and Doug Jones (University of Iowa) wrote an article, "The State of the Art in Voting Machine Technology: Just How Reliable Are They?" which appears in the January issue of IEEE Computer.
Beiyu Lin (Computer Science) co-authored an article, "Early Forecasting of the Impact of Traffic Accidents Using a Single Shot Observation," which has been accepted to SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2022 (acceptance rate of about 27.8%). The paper was co-authored with Guangyu Meng (University of Notre Dame), Qisheng Jiang (…
Zakai J. Olsen, '16 BS, '18 MS, and '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering and Kwang J. Kim (Mechanical Engineering) are the authors of a new journal publication, "Characterizing the Transduction Behavior of Ionic Polymer-metal Composite Actuators and Sensors via Dimensional Analysis," which was published in Smart Materials and…