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She’s an engineer who focuses on renewable energy sources. She’s a business wiz with a zest for finance and management. And she’s an aficionado of all things pickled.

Harvesting farm produce can be tedious and strenuous on laborers. This tough job can now be done by an automated system; using a gripper attached to a robotic arm. This research carried out by WVU engineering student Alexander Flasch focused on the design and development of a gripper for produce growing on trees. The robotic gripper was tested on its capability to grip varying diameters of fruits and vegetables, so that it can eliminate human labor and making harvesting automated.

A professor from West Virginia University is on a mission to discover a solution to one of NASA’s greatest challenges - creating battery powered planes and spaceships.    

Researchers at West Virginia University have engineered a material with the potential to dramatically cut the amount of heat power plants release into the atmosphere.

A model for predicting the levels of oxygen in water, developed by West Virginia University researcher Omar Abdul-Aziz, gives citizen scientists nationwide a tool for taking action on stream pollution. 

The Science, Technology & Research division of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission awarded three research challenge grants worth approximately $1.3 million each to support research conducted by students and faculty at West Virginia High education institutions. All three research teams selected for the grants totaling more than $3.9 million will be led by faculty from the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University.

Recently published research by West Virginia University engineers marks a big step forward in improving durability and performance of the solid oxide fuel cells that power plants can use to generate electricity.

Zeyu Liu, assistant professor of industrial and management systems engineering at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, received the Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Computing Society.  

Two students from the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, have been selected for the 2023 West Virginia Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellows Program, which is part of West Virginia University’s Bridge Initiative for Science and Technology Policy, Leadership, and Communications.