President's Newsletter: November 2023

President's Newsletter: November 2023

Message From the President

While the temperature cools in the North Country, the academic climate at Clarkson is heating up as students and faculty ignite innovation in our classrooms and labs. Side by side, our professors and young scholars are pursuing research and discovery that matters. In this newsletter, you'll learn more about research funding by major organizations like the NIH and NSF, biomedical research opportunities for a diverse cohort of students, a new major in a rapidly expanding business field, and much more happening at Clarkson. I am thrilled to introduce you to our talented community of scholars and the exciting work taking place in the North Country.

— Marc P. Christensen, Ph.D., P.E., President

NIH Research Award

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Headshot, Ginger Hunter

Assistant Professor of Biology Ginger Hunter has been awarded a nearly $1.8 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early Stage Investigators from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. Her research will study how defects in cell-cell communication during development can lead to human disorders and disease.
Read More About This Award

Profs Publish New Diagnostic Test Research

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Biomolecular switch operated as a biosensor – artistic vision

Two professors recently published a paper in the journal Nature Nanotechnology on research that fosters rapid and reliable development of new diagnostic tests. They've developed a new approach for designing molecular on/off switches based on artificial allosteric proteins.
Read More About This Research
 

Glowing Opportunity

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Clarkson has a strong history of welcoming socio-demographically diverse students to our campus. A National Institutes of Health grant will launch the BOREALIS Scholars program, which will prepare a diverse cadre of students for careers in biomedical research by creating a pathway to bioengineering graduate study.

Read More About BOREALIS
 

New Business Analytics MBA

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A female and a male student at a desk talking while looking at their laptop computer screens.

A new Reh School program aims to meet the growing demand for professionals capable of exploring, analyzing and interpreting large volumes of data to drive informed decision-making. The new MBA in Business Analytics combines the latest methods of statistical analysis, data management and decision analysis with a solid foundation in business administration.

Read More About The New MBA 
 

Removing PFAS

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a group of five professors posing in front of a sandstone wall with the Clarkson seal

A group of professors has been awarded $650K by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program to find and design new advanced adsorbent materials to remove toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from groundwater. 
Read More About This Grant 
 

Construction Management Track (for E&M majors)

Construction Management Track (for E&M majors)

Construction Management Track (for E&M majors)

The Construction Management Track is available to Engineering & Management majors in the David D. Reh School of Business. Students interested in construction management careers —whether as project managers, field engineers, or initially as estimators, schedulers, expediters, auditors–can hone their skills and gain a competitive career edge through this track with courses taught in both the Reh School of Business and the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 

Curriculum

To complete a track in Construction Management, Engineering & Management students must complete 5 three-credit courses.  Review the full curriculum and requirements below.

Two Required Classes:
EM 380 Project Management (Corequisite: STAT 383)
ES 222* Strength of Materials

One of the following:
EHS 309 Introduction to Environmental and Occupational Health
EHS 330+ Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

Two of the following:
CE 304* Introduction to Scheduling and Estimating
CE 305* Construction Planning and Management
CE 404* Applications in Scheduling and Estimating
CE 406* Infrastructure Construction
CE 408* BIM and IPD (Building Info. Mgmt. and Integrated Project Mgmt.)
CE 409* Fundamentals of Building Systems (Offered Every Spring)
CE 410* Sustainable Infrastructure and Building (Offered Every Fall)
CE 411* Construction Materials Engineering


* Professional Elective
+ Recommended Course

Contact Us

Engineering & Management Program
Email: em@clarkson.edu
Phone: 315-268-6579

Interested in learning more about the Bachelor of Science in Engineering & Management? Contact us today with your questions.

Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter: Fall 2023

Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter: Fall 2023

Message From the Dean

Multiple research grants are the top highlights of this edition of the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter. From the NSF to the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Air Force, the scholarship of our faculty and students is being consistently recognized. We also feature some other interesting Coulter School news and recognition highlights from the past few months. I'm proud of the accomplishments of our students and faculty, and I hope you enjoy reading about them below.

— Bill Jemison, Dean of the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering / Tony Collins Professor of Innovative Engineering Culture

Plasma Pathways

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Prof. Prof. Selma Mededovic standing with her arms folded, in front of laboratory equipment.

Prof. Selma Mededovic and her co-researchers have received an NSF grant to further research into the development of multiphase gas-liquid plasma reactors. The nearly $800K in funding could generate new insights and novel means of analyzing plasmas in contact with liquids.

Read More About This NSF Grant

 

Vocal Hyperfunction

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Photo portrait of Byron Erath

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering students will perform cross-disciplinary biomedical research along with more than 25 researchers from more than 13 universities and institutions around the world. Associate Professor Byron Erath is a co-investigator in the National Institutes of Health grant, which is making this possible. 

Read More About This Research

Solar Cell Advancement

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Photo portrait of Brian Helenbrook

Prof. Brian Helenbrook's work to develop new models of solidification kinetics has been awarded a nearly $555K grant from the NSF. He'll use the models to optimize the horizontal ribbon growth process – a technique for producing thin wafers of single-crystal silicon for use in solar cells, which could lower production costs by 75 percent.

Read More About This Research

NSF Curriculum Grant

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Headshots Daqing Hou, Jeanna Matthews, Jan DeWaters, and Faraz Hussain

Four professors have received a $398K grant from the NSF to create and integrate an identity and access management-themed, project-based learning curriculum into existing computer science- and software engineering-related curricula.

Read More About This NSF Grant

Solar Dynamo

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Photo portrait of Chunlei Liang

Prof. Chunlei Liang has been awarded an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant to model the global solar dynamo and simulate the magnetic field of the sun. All space weather has its roots in the solar magnetic field, but the global dynamo producing this magnetism remains difficult to predict numerically.

Read More About This Air Force Grant

School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter: Fall 2023

School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter: Fall 2023

Message From the Dean

Fall has come to the North Country and with it our returning students, as well as a new cohort of young scholars anxious to delve into the arts and sciences. This month, we report on some significant grants received by our professors, as well as a newly published paper, presentations and other news. I'm very proud of the work of both our students and faculty, and I hope that you enjoy reading about their scholarship.

— Darryl Scriven, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Fellow in The Shipley Center for Innovation

Removing PFAS

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a group of five professors posing in front of a sandstone wall with the Clarkson seal

A group of professors has been awarded $650K by the Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program to find and design new advanced adsorbent materials to remove toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from groundwater.

Read More About This Grant

 

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Headshots Daqing Hou, Jeanna Matthews, Jan DeWaters, and Faraz Hussain

NSF Curriculum Grant

Four professors have received a $398K grant from the National Science Foundation to create and integrate an identity and access management-themed project-based learning curriculum into existing computer science- and software engineering-related curricula.

Read More About This NSF Grant

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Biomolecular switch operated as a biosensor – artistic vision

Profs Publish New Diagnostic Test Research

Two professors recently published a paper in the journal Nature Nanotechnology on research that fosters rapid and reliable development of new diagnostic tests. They've developed a new approach for designing molecular on/off switches based on artificial allosteric proteins.

Read More About This Research

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Professor Delivers Self-Determination Keynote

Associate Professor of Psychology Lisa Legault delivered a keynote address at the International Self-Determination Theory Conference. Legault, a leading scholar in the field, presented her research examining the effects of motivational messages across a range of domains and behaviors.

Read More About The Conference

David D. Reh School of Business Newsletter: September 2023

David D. Reh School of Business Newsletter: September 2023

Message From the Dean

A brand new program and faculty research are at the top of this month's issue of the Reh School newsletter. Working again in partnership with business leaders, a new MBA program is meeting an increasing need at organizations around the globe. And new faculty research could prove beneficial to Empire State start-ups. We're very proud of the achievements of all of our students and faculty, and I hope you enjoy reading these latest stories.

— Bebonchu Atems, Interim Dean of the Reh School of Business

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New Business Analytics MBA

A new Reh School program aims to meet the growing demand for professionals capable of exploring, analyzing and interpreting large volumes of data to drive informed decision-making. The new MBA in Business Analytics combines the latest methods of statistical analysis, data management and decision analysis with a solid foundation in business administration.

Read More About the New MBA

Upstate Start-ups Scale Up

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Portrait of Christian Felzensztein

Professor Christian Felzensztein, the Reh Family Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, is studying strategies that lead to the success of start-ups as they scale up in upstate New York. His study focuses on science- and engineering-based start-ups, as these firms have the potential for growth and strategic importance upstate.

Read About the Study

Scholarship & Faculty Achievements

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Reh School faculty continue to produce cutting-edge scholarship that unearths critical findings in the business world. Our faculty are recognized as thought leaders – publishing and reviewing articles for the best journals, participating and presenting at academic conferences and enhancing the learning experiences of our students.

Read More About Faculty Achievements

Felzensztein Edits Journal

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Professor Christian Felzensztein has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sustainable Business and Economics. Felzensztein plans to foster diverse topics and perspectives on entrepreneurial sustainability.

Read More About This Appointment