WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
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On July 1, Pedro Mago, a distinguished higher education leader and expert in energy systems and sustainability, joined the Statler College as the new Glen H. Hiner Dean. He shared his vision for the College in a welcome message to the Statler College community.
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Over the last six decades, spacefaring nations have slowly, but surely, cluttered up the final frontier. The staggering amount of space debris poses a difficult challenge for safely operating spacecrafts in lower Earth orbit without collision. To meet this challenge, a WVU engineer, Piyush Mehta, is working to improve the accuracy of predicting drag on objects in lower Earth orbit.
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When Pete Hinkey, a 2016 mechanical engineering graduate, received a text message from his boss about the University of Pittsburgh’s coronavirus research efforts, there was some playful teasing about what WVU may or may not be doing in the humanitarian effort against the virus. What Hinkey would do next resulted in a coordinated effort between the Innovation Hub at the Statler College and Rifton Equipment to supply personal protective equipment to hundreds of frontline pandemic workers.
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In the United States we throw away a lot of energy. In power plants fired by fossil fuels alone, 67 percent of the electricity generated is release unproductively into the environment in the form of heat, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. By rethinking the design of thermoelectric materials, which have the ability to convert heat to electricity, Xueyan Song, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is working to recover the wasted heat energy from the air.
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A new space race is underway throughout the globe and the renewed interest in space exploration is trickling down to the Robotic Technology Center in a big way. Maxar Technologies has announced over $2 million in funding for the Center to assist them in performing the first in-space assembly demonstration of a satellite using a lightweight robotic arm.
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