David D. Reh School of Business Newsletter: March 2024

David D. Reh School of Business Newsletter: March 2024

Message From the Dean

Welcome to the March edition of the Reh School of Business Newsletter! It's been a busy winter here in the North Country; we added a new bachelor of science degree program and received national recognition for already existing programs. In addition, one of our professors has co-authored a new book that had its global launch earlier this year. I hope you enjoy reading about our latest developments as we continue to design programs in partnership with business leaders and entrepreneurs to meet the needs of the world's most innovative organizations!

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

New BS Degree

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The Reh School is offering a new bachelor of science degree in business administration. The program allows students to select all of their business elective courses from the diverse range of business courses, rather than prescribing the course areas they must concentrate on to fulfill more discipline-specific degrees.
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STEM Means Business

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The bachelor of science in business analytics degree is the newest of our business programs to be STEM-designated. The Reh School is among an elite cadre of higher education institutions that offer degrees recognized by the U.S. government as STEM-designated programs. The BS in engineering and management, MS in healthcare data analytics and MBA in business analytics are also STEM-designated.
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Online MBA in Top 110

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As online learning continues to grow and expand, U.S. News & World Report has ranked our online MBA program as one of the top 110 in the nation. It was also ranked in the Top 70 Best Online MBA Programs for Veterans. Other online degrees offered by Clarkson include the MBA in healthcare management, MS in healthcare data analytics and MS in clinical leadership in healthcare management.
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International Entrepreneurship

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Christian Felzensztein stands between two presenters on stage in front of a screen with the logo for the 12th conference of the International Iberoamerican Academy of Management.

Professor Christian Felzensztein, the Reh Family Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, has co-authored the new book A Research Agenda for International Entrepreneurship. The Reh School's entrepreneurship MBA students are the first to fully adopt the ideas presented in the book, with MBA and DBA programs around the world following suit.
Read More About This Book
 

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Newsletter: March 2024

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Newsletter: March 2024

Message From the Chair

Welcome to the March issue of the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Newsletter. This edition presents two new grants for solar-related research, interesting findings on respiratory particle emissions, and other recent activities of our students, faculty and alumni. I hope you enjoy reading about our achievements as we continue to develop and implement innovative solutions in mechanical and aerospace engineering.

— Brian Helenbrook, Professor/Chair of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering/Paynter-Krigman Endowed Professor in Engineering Science Simulation

Children's Respiratory Particle Emissions

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An article published by a research team, which includes Prof. Byron Erath, in the journal Aerosol Science and Technology explains its findings that age influences the size and quantity of respiratory particle emissions in humans during activities, with children releasing fewer and smaller particles than adults. Thus, incorporating age demographics into disease transmission models may improve their accuracy.
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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 of $240K 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.
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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.
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Aerospace Award

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A man with glasses in a suit handing a paper certificate to Michael Buchwald, wearing a green polo shirt.

At the American Society for Engineering Education conference, aerospace engineering major and honors student Michael Buchwald '23 received the Aerospace Division’s Distinguished Student Paper Award for his research on "Advancing Engineering Education through University Ground Stations." Buchwald investigated the integration of ground stations into university curricula.
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Electrical & Computer Engineering Newsletter: March 2024

Electrical & Computer Engineering Newsletter: March 2024

Message From the Chair

Welcome to the March issue of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Newsletter. This month we bring you news of NSF funding, a new research center, and other student and faculty achievements. I hope you enjoy reading about our accomplishments as we continue in the development of technology to serve humanity through innovation.

— Paul McGrath, Chair/Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

NSF Curriculum Grant

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

Two Electrical & Computer Engineering professors are among a team that has 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.
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New Sustainable Vehicle Tech

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Clarkson is part of a new NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center tasked with developing sustainable mobility technologies, such as electrification, smart infrastructure and resilient computing systems. Associate Professor Chen Liu will serve as the Clarkson site director of the Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility (eCAT).
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NSF Funding for Conference

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Professor Erik Bollt and Research Assistant Professor Jeremie Fish are among the co-principal investigators on an NSF grant that will fund the organization of the Seventh Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems being held at Clarkson in March. The grant allows Clarkson to offer travel awards to students, postdoctoral researchers and early career faculty and researchers.
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Power Symposium Presentation

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Waist-up portrait of Devin Hodoroski in a vertically striped shirt standing in front of a PoerPoint screen reading "Impact of Climate Change on Long-Term Baseload Forecasting: Case Studies in New York State"

Electrical engineering major and honors student Devin Hodoroski presented his research at the 2023 North American Power Symposium conference. The research highlighted in his paper, "Impact of Climate Change on Long-Term Load Forecasting: Case Studies in New York State,” looks at how rising temperatures from climate change will impact the power grid.
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Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Newsletter: March 2024

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Newsletter: March 2024

Message From the Chair

Welcome to the March issue of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Newsletter. Research funding tops this month's news, along with an achievement by one of our honors students. We also introduce you to a new faculty member. I hope you enjoy reading about our faculty and students as we continue to offer research excellence and impactful hands-on experiences!

— Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy, Professor/Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
 

NSF CAREER Award

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Asst. Prof. Ian McCrum has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for early-career faculty who serve as academic role models in research and education. The CAREER Award will provide $601K in funding for research to enable the production of fully sustainable and carbon-neutral chemicals.
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Dehalogenating Waste Streams

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

Prof. Selma Mededovic Thagard has been awarded a $422,000 National Science Foundation grant for her research on the dehalogenation of waste streams using electrical discharge plasma. Dehalogenation of waste streams is at the forefront of the major engineering challenges facing society, with more than 10,000 organohalogens impacting the environment.
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Converting Methane Into Fuels

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Asst. Prof. Ian McCrum and his research group have received funding from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. The Doctoral New Investigator grant of $110,000 will fund research on designing catalysts for the electrochemical conversion of methane in natural gas into valuable fuels/chemicals.
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Estée Lauder Internship

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Chemical engineering major and honors student Nicolena Fazio ‘27 has accepted a summer internship at Estée Lauder, where she will work in research & development, and packaging. Fazio had this opportunity due to an interview with a chemical engineering alum, which was facilitated by our Career Center.
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