A team led by a Statler College biomedical engineer is working to ramp up and reimagine how medical professionals diagnose tick-borne infections such as Lyme disease. Assistant Professor Soumya Srivastava is developing a tool that detects tick-borne diseases via a blood sample on a single chip within one to two weeks after the onset of an infection, whereas existing approaches rely on a symptom-based questionnaire and tests that aren’t reliable until at least a few weeks after infection.

Alarmed about rising levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in America’s water, the Environmental Protection Agency has invested $1 million in Statler College assistant professor Kevin Orner’s wastewater treatment research.

Researchers Guilherme Pereira and Ihsan Berk Tulu were awarded nearly $500,000 to develop an aerial robot-enabled inspection and monitoring system for abandoned coal waste storage facilities. The goal of the project is to find a way to detect leakages and failures at coal waste facilities before tailings and coal ash are released into the environment.

Statler College researchers are resurrecting discarded electronics, recycling electronic waste and recovering minerals from it to make new products critical for national defense. Terence Musho, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is leading the project, which received more than $250,000 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense.

Anurag Srivastava is conducting research supported by two research grants totaling nearly $600,000 from the Department of Energy. The funding will be used to create a more advanced energy distribution grid with integration of energy storage and renewable distributed energy resources for a variety of applications.

Graduate students Linjun Lu (team leader), Sourav Dutta, Dilruba Mahmud and Aida da Silva, led by faculty advisor Fei Dai, won third place at the third annual Visualization, Information Modeling and Simulation (VIMS), and first annual joint Datathon Competition between VIMS and the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction.

In order to foster and sustain leadership excellence, the Statler College has announced the selection of three professors to the Dean’s Leadership Fellows Program. The one-year program will eliminate barriers faculty may have previously faced when exploring leadership opportunities and empower them to become advocates of change in the areas of research, teaching or service.

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito delivered the Poundstone Lecture in a private event on October 3, as part of WVU’s Department of Mining Engineering’s William N. Poundstone Lecture Series.

Dear friends and colleagues,

As we reach the mid-point of the semester, it is clear that our faculty, staff, and students have shown tremendous dedication to their teaching and research, as demonstrated by the abundance of articles above.

This issue of EngineeringWV highlights our College's dedication to interdisciplinary research and innovation, as we announced over $3.5 million in funding for various research projects in the last month alone. In addition, our research expenditures and awards continue to increase, and this success is a direct result of the dedicated efforts and hard work of our faculty, students, and staff. I am also pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of the new Dean's Leadership Fellows Program. Furthermore, I would like to congratulate our team of civil and environmental engineering graduate students who won third place at the Visualization, Information Modeling, and Simulation competition.

Members of the Statler College community are relentless in their pursuit of excellence. I am inspired by the outstanding accomplishments of our students, faculty, and staff and proud of their achievements. I invite each of you to join me in celebrating all that we have accomplished thus far and all that we will achieve in the future.

Let's Go!

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