The Ohio State University College of Engineering

A Magnificent 7️⃣ College of Engineering graduate students have been named Presidential Fellows, the highest honor given by The Ohio State University Graduate School: Saqeeb Adnan 👏 Peng Chen 👏 Mariana Georges 👏 Rogine Gomez 👏 Akshay Kudva 👏 Sai Raskar 👏 Premanshu Singh 👏 https://lnkd.in/gsJYRatv The award recognizes the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project. Awarded competitively, Presidential Fellowships provide one year of full-time financial support so students can complete their dissertations or terminal degree projects unimpeded by other responsibilities. Learn about their research: https://lnkd.in/gsJYRatv

Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering Assoc. Prof. Jeffrey M. Bielicki is 1 of 3 faculty members nominated by Ohio State for the third edition of the Frontiers Planet Prize, an international award elevating scientists for their groundbreaking research for sustainable development solutions.  https://lnkd.in/geYGHW8d He was nominated in recognition of his peer-reviewed paper titled, “A potential for climate benign direct air CO2 capture with CO2-driven geothermal utilization and storage (DACCUS).” This paper investigates how carbon dioxide (CO2) that is directly extracted from air could be used in a system to produce geothermal energy for heat and electricity that could be used to extract more CO2 from air. “This process addresses major struggles for sustainable development: slowing, stopping, and reversing the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere,” said Bielicki. “Policy mechanisms within the European Union and tax credits in the United States may make it a feasible solution for climate action.” National champions from each participating country will be announced on Earth Day 2025 (April 22), and the three international champions will be announced in June 2025.

It's the time of year for Top 10 lists, so...🥁🥁🥁🥁 here are the 10 most popular Buckeye Engineering news stories from 2024: https://lnkd.in/gXz_fGfR 📰 A record best: Top 20 ranking for Ohio State Engineering 📰 10 future uses for drones 📰 DOE invests $12M in novel membrane technology that captures carbon emissions 📰 These grads are primed to engineer vibrant futures 📰 Engineering capstone students take flight to test laser welding for space 📰 Conejo, Ozkan elected to National Academy of Engineering 📰 College recognizes 12 exceptional alumni 📰 Can drinking water treatment remove microplastics? 📰 Expanding access to computing education at scale 📰 Buckeye Current team captures world records https://lnkd.in/gXz_fGfR

After a five-year hiatus due to COVID, Ohio State’s Biomolecular Design Team returned to the world of DNA origami this year, earning a bronze award at BIOMOD 2024 held in Kitakyushu, Japan. The OhioMOD Design Team designed a DNA origami nanostructure as the basic building block of a hierarchical nanomachine for the international biomolecular design competition sponsored by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The team consists of eight undergraduate students from across the College of Engineering: Saidah Adeyemi, Quincy Bizjak, Giana Fasone, Siddharth Kulkarni, Dahlia Mahmoud, Sera Mathew, Aryan Tyagi and Katie Yanes Diehl. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Carlos Castro is the team’s adviser. "I wanted to give other undergraduates the opportunity to get involved with nanotechnology and laboratory experience," said Bizjak, the team’s president. "We hope to continue fostering new generations of curious minds, building hands-on projects and learning more and more about the potential of bioengineering in the future.” Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gH2WKZCZ & https://biomod.net/

Our Enginuity Podcast "Entrepreneur Tour" continues! In the latest episode, Dean Ayanna Howard chats with alumnus Michael Triplett about his biotech entrepreneurial journey, including past successes and current endeavors. He also offers some sage advice to current Buckeyes. Listen via Apple Podcasts or YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dmKbmX-H

Disposal of food waste is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, as decomposition in landfills releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and incineration produces carbon dioxide and other pollutants. So Beenish Saba, a research scientist in the Department of Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, is working to harness industrial food processing waste and convert it into valuable platform chemicals through innovative fermentation techniques, including both conventional and electro-fermentation. https://lnkd.in/gbD4a8He

Prof. Tanya Berger-Wolf was a recent guest on Scientific American's fantastic podcast, Science Quickly. The Imageomics Institute director explains how AI and machine learning are being used to change the way we understand—and protect—animals and their ecosystems 🦓 🦋 🐘 🐋 https://lnkd.in/gMJFpJMz It's the second episode of their Friday Fascination miniseries “The New Conservationists" by Rachel Feltman & Ashleigh Papp.

Researchers are shining a light on cancer cells’ energy centers – literally – to damage these power sources and trigger widespread cancer cell death.  In a new study, a team led by Professors Lufang Zhou & Margaret (Xiaoguang) Liu combined strategies to deliver energy-disrupting gene therapy using nanoparticles manufactured to zero in only on cancer cells. Experiments showed the targeted therapy is effective at shrinking glioblastoma brain tumors and aggressive breast cancer tumors in mice.  The research team overcame a significant challenge to break up structures inside these cellular energy centers, called mitochondria, with a technique that induces light-activated electrical currents inside the cell. They named the technology mLumiOpto. “We disrupt the membrane so mitochondria cannot work functionally to produce energy or work as a signaling hub. This causes programmed cell death followed by DNA damage – our investigations showed these two mechanisms are involved and kill the cancer cells,” said Zhou. “This is how the technology works by design.” The study appears in the December issue of the journal Cancer Research. Kai Chen of Liu’s lab and Patrick Ernst of Zhou’s lab were co-first authors of the study. Additional co-authors were Anusua Sarkar, Seulhee Kim, Yingnan Si, Tanvi Varadkar and Matthew Ringel, all of Ohio State. https://lnkd.in/gYfqt_5P

The Association of American Universities (AAU) recently highlighted the Ohio State-led Midwest Semiconductor Network, which supports the onshoring of the advanced semiconductor and microelectronics industry by developing innovative solutions to meet its research and workforce needs. https://lnkd.in/esPD6EuV

👏 Congrats to recipients of the latest round of Center for Medical & Engineering Innovation (CMEI) Pilot Grants: ▪️ Megan Ballinger, PhD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Internal Medicine) and Aleksander Skardal, PhD (Biomedical Engineering) Project: Validation of a Humanized Fibrotic Lung-on-a-Chip System ▪️ Michelle Nassal, MD, PhD (Emergency Medicine) and Emre Ertin, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Project: Towards Personalized Intervention Protocols for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Digital Twin Modeling of the Cardio-Pulmonary System in Distress Using Reduced Order Models of Physiology and Generative AI Techniques ▪️ Juliet Varghese, PhD (Biomedical Engineering) and Saurabh Rajpal, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine, Internal Medicine) Project: Developing a Single-Session Cardiopulmonary CPET-CMR Exam at Low-Field MRI CMEI fosters interdisciplinary research through multiple initiatives that engage Ohio State faculty, staff, trainees, students and extramural entities whose focus is to expand innovation and impact at the intersection of medicine and engineering. The CMEI pilot grant program supports collaborations between Ohio State colleges that initiate promising ventures at the medicine-engineering interface. Proposed research involve at least one faculty member from the College of Engineering and one faculty member from one of the Health Sciences Colleges. These collaborations test innovative approaches (ideas, technologies, devices) directed at basic or clinically relevant biomedical research. The program funds $35,000 grants to assist faculty in obtaining preliminary data that will result in a collaborative grant application for the NIH, or another agency or foundation, or lead to an entrepreneurial endpoint such as a patent. More info: https://lnkd.in/gFRXwJpK