Just like the COVID-19 virus itself, the means of monitoring and testing for it in wastewater have evolved into a new beast more than a year later. As part of a $2.9 million statewide project geared at developing a testing network throughout West Virginia and identifying communities of concern for COVID-19. The project will monitor sewage at more than 50 wastewater plants, in addition to high-risk congregant settings like college campuses, around the state.

Statler College engineer Piyush Mehta is helping to solve one of the greatest limitations of space exploration — sending and receiving information between a spacecraft and the ground station — thanks to a $750,000 award from NASA’s highly competitive Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research program.

This fall, WVU researchers led by Visiting Assistant Professor Nagasree Garapati will drill three miles into the ground to test the potential of geothermal energy. If successful, it might eventually help to reduce the carbon footprint of the University and decrease energy costs.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been adopted widely in the aviation domain in the last decade. Today, researchers are vying to overcome the challenge of establishing trust in AI-based systems that are largely responsible for life, property and the environment.

Dear friends and colleagues,

The articles presented in this issue of EngineeringWV Wired are examples of the outstanding interdisciplinary research done in the Statler College. It’s an exciting time to be here and witness the incredible scientific feats our faculty and students are vying to overcome. Assistant Professor Emily Garner continues to lend her expertise to the statewide pandemic response through a new $2.9 million project supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Assistant Professor Piyush Mehta is pushing the field of space exploration forward with improved data transfer technology. Visiting Assistant Professor Nagasree Garapati has been tapped to explore the potential of geothermal energy in the state.

With this issue's highlighted research and so much more happening behind the walls of our campus buildings, our research expenditures and awards continue to increase, and this success is a result of the dedicated efforts and hard work of our faculty, students and staff.

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