School of Engineering Graduate Open House


Interested in Graduate School?

 

Come to the School of Engineering's Graduate Open House!

 

When?

September 28th, 4-7 pm

Where?

KU School of Engineering, Slawson Hall

Why? 

Meet departments and learn about funding opportunities.

Learn about how to improve your application, including your personal statement and CV.

Tour Labs and meet faculty and current graduate students!

Learn more about our nationally ranked graduate programs and current research initiatives!

Light refreshments will be provided.


Labs to Tour at the Open House

  • Energy Storage Lab

    • We work on developing methods and tools to improve the performance, safety and intelligence of lithium-ion batteries for different applications. Our work straddles systems & control theory, electrochemistry, machine learning, and power electronics. We have advanced facilities including a battery tester to support our research. 
  • Sturm Research Group
    • The Sturm Research Group studies the application of biological processes in environmental engineering toward public health protection and sustainability. Dr. Sturm’s primary interest is the use of microbial communities in water reclamation and resource recovery from municipal wastewater. The group applies a holistic research approach that includes microbial ecology, bioreactor design and operation, life cycle assessment, geospatial modeling, and collaborations with environmental economists. Students work within highly interdisciplinary teams and often work with utility partners, with the goal of advancing the rapid adoption of engineering innovations. 
  • Institute for Sustainable Engineering
    • The Institute will advance global sustainability through transformational engineering, science, and education. We aim to focus on creative solutions that can be applied to real-world issues promoting the societal, economic, and environmental benefits of sustainable and green engineering.  
  • Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab
    • The lab is focused primarily on image-based computational biomechanics modeling to better understand and treat musculoskeletal pathology. We use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and/or computed tomography (CT) to obtain model geometry and boundary conditions. One ongoing project focuses on the mechanobiology of elevation and closure of the oral palate, to understand factors leading to cleft palate. 
  • KU Driving Simulator Lab
    • The Driving Simulator Lab at KU includes a medium fidelity fixed-base driving simulator embodied in the front half of an Acura MDX shell. The simulator set-up consists of three front screens facilitating a 170o horizontal field of view of the road environment projected using three overhead projectors, while an additional rear screen renders the driving view on side and rear-view mirrors, creating an immersive experience. The simulator also features level 3 automation (adaptive cruise control and lane-keep assist technology) as well as a 16’’ infotainment system that emulates Tesla’s system. The simulator runs on the MiniSim platform developed by the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS). The Driving Simulator collects driver performance metrics such as speed, acceleration, brake force, etc., while a variety of instruments such as eye tracker, heart-rate monitor, and electroencephalogram (EEG), offer supplemental physiological data. The simulator has been used for research related to driver behavior and aggressiveness, distracted driving, impact of vehicle automation on driving performance, and many more. 
  • Marshal G. Lutz Fracture and Fatigue Laboratory
    • The Marshal G. Lutz Fracture and Fatigue Laboratory has static and servo-hydraulic test equipment for small, reduced, and full-scale structural testing.  It has a unique structural testing room with 360 ft2 of reaction floor space with orthogonal reaction walls on two sides of the test floor and a reaction ceiling with a clear height of 12 ft. The lab also houses various sensors and data acquisition systems for supporting laboratory and field testing and structural health monitoring. 
  • Anechoic Chamber
    • The chamber is an electromagnetically-quiet room that allows for the characterization of antennas, radars, and other radio frequency (RF) emitters, as well as the testing of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) in electronics.  This $1.34 million dollar, 15-foot x 35-foot x 15-foot room allows for antenna characterizations, electromagnetic interference and compatibility studies in a well-controlled environment.
  • Tamerler Lab
    • Our inspiration has been to decode the elegance contained in Nature`s highly organized, yet functional structures and systems and to develop the genetic code for designing bio-enabled materials using molecular recognition, self-assembly and self-organization principles in an integrated fashion combining experimental and computational tools. Combining the molecular biology to materials science, our research focus on the engineering of biomolecular systems for design, synthesis and biofabrication of materials in wide range of applications. Starting from designing the controllable interactions at the nanoscale systems, our goal is to create adaptable and multifunctional integrative bio-nano-technologies that can span multitude of length scales. 
  • KU Advanced Reconfigurable and Quantum (KUARQ) Computing Research Group 
    • Field programmable Gate Array (FPGA) boards including practical quantum image processing 
  • ASTHA lab (Assurance of Security for Human and Hardware)
    • Electromagnetic (EM) side-channel leakage arises from the unintentional emission of electromagnetic radiation during the operation of an electronic device. These emissions can be correlated to the data being processed and the operations performed inside the microchip, allowing an attacker to infer sensitive information. In the lab, we will demonstrate a simple form of attack using our EM sensing equipment. 
  • Computer Systems Lab (CSL)
    • CSL is aiming to build safe and secure real-time computing system infrastructure for intelligent cyber-physical systems. 
  • Structural Acoustics Lab 
    • We have numerous microphones and accelerometers to measure sound and vibrational characteristics of aerospace structures (and, sometimes, guitars).  Using these sensors and, we “divine” the vibration characteristics of small drones and other small structures using our modal testing system.  During the tour, we’ll show animations of the natural vibration modes of a small drone.   Our acoustics testing for noise reduction in aircraft sidewall panels is actually performed in a “reverberation suite” laboratory in M2SEC, which can be accessed during the tour by those with an interest. 
  • Soper Research Group
    • The major focus of our group is to generate new tools for discovery and medical diagnostics through the analysis of biological macromolecules including DNAs, RNAs and proteins.  Our major research goal is that these tools are being integrated into operating systems that can be used for a variety of applications, such as the diagnosis and prognosis of many forms of cancers, stroke and infectious diseases. To build systems specifically designed for macro-molecular analyses, our research spans many sub-areas, such as polymer-based micro- and nanomachining, fluorescent probe development, construction of ultrasensitive detection apparati and nano-biology (performing molecular biological reactions in ultra-small volumes).