UConn Receiving Millions to Conduct Research for U.S. Navy
The National Institute for Undersea Vehicle Technology, collaborates with the University of Rhode Island and General Dynamics Electric Boat to develop the next-generation of submarines and the workforce that will build them.
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Michel Appointed Synchrony Financial Chair for Cybersecurity
The UConn School of Engineering is pleased to announced the appointment of Laurent Michel, a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, as the next Synchrony Financial Chair for Cybersecurity.
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Meet the Researcher: George Bollas, UConn Tech Park
Led by George Bollas, the United Technologies Corporation Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering (UTC-IASE) has been solving these real-world problems for industry since 2013.
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UConn Partners in $100M DOE Innovation Hub on Water Technologies
A research consortium including the University of Connecticut, has been awarded a five-year, $100-million Energy-Water Desalination Hub to address water security issues in the United States.
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UConn Tech Park Welcomes New UConn President
UConn President Katsouleas met with Tech Park researchers last week expecting to “tickle a few neurons.”
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Innovation Partnership Building Wins ENR New England Award of Merit
The Innovation Partnership Building has won an Award of Merit in the Higher Education/Research category in Engineering-News Record New England’s 2019 Best Projects awards.
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Pamir Alpay Appointed as Associate Dean of Engineering
Pamir Alpay, Executive Director of UConn Tech Park, has been appointed as Associate Dean for Research and Industrial Partnerships at the School of Engineering (SoE).
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Smart Minds Talk about the Smart Grid
For participants of the Eversource Energy Center Grid Modernization Summit, ways to make the delivery of electricity more reliable were at the front of everyone’s minds.
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UConn’s New HuskyJet Brings 3D Printing to the Next Level
UConn Tech Park, the UConn National Science Foundation (NSF) SHAP3D site, and its site director, Dr. Anson Ma, have acquired a state-of-the-art Pilot Scale industrial inkjet 3D-printer, appropriately named HuskyJet.
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This Former Playwright Aims to Turn Solar and Wind Power into Gasoline
UConn Tech Park Center director Jeffrey McCutcheon has a longstanding collaboration with innovative startup Mattershift, which aims to synthesize gasoline from air, water, and electricity rather than refine it from oil.
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UConn Earns Defense Industry Dollars, Research Designation
In recent months, the University of Connecticut has been re-designated as a National Security Agency/Department of Homeland Security Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research and landed a four-year, $5.4 million contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
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Quantifying Chaos with Emmanouil Anagnostou
Director of the Eversource Energy Center Anagnostou does not develop weather prediction models, rather he uses some of the existing predictive tools to determine the impact of a weather system on the ground.
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Advanced Electron Microscopy Center Tackles Real World Challenges in Materials Science
The IN-siTu/Operando Electron Microscopy (InToEM) center represents a partnership between the UConn Tech Park and DENSsolutions, a firm based in the Netherlands that develops in-situ TEM technologies.
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Hosted at the IPB: Simsbury Bank’s Manufacturing Matters Podcast
This episode of Simsbury Bank’s Manufacturing Matters, hosted at the IPB, podcast shares the amazing work that’s being done at the UConn School of Engineering to educate and train a new generation of engineers and skilled workforce talent.
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Solving Problems in 3D
Finding real-world solutions for industry, utilizing highly specialized equipment, training the future innovation workforce – it’s all in a day’s work for Rainer Hebert, director of the Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center at UConn Tech Park.
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Today: Fashion Show at the IPB
Tech Park is excited to host the UConn Black Students Association’s 26th Anniversary Fashion Show: ODYSSEY on Saturday afternoon. The Spring Weekend event is sold out to a crowd of 300. According to BSA president Abby Katz, the show “showcases diversity within blackness and its various intersections with gender, art, and sense of place. It […]
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Tech Park Center Director Named 2019 Distinguished Professor
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Eversource Center Director at UConn Tech Park, is one of three UConn professors who were given the University’s highest academic honor this week.
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Meet the Researcher: Sina Shahbazmohamadi, REFINE Center at UConn Tech Park
Sina Shahbazmohamadi wears his long black hair in a ponytail pulled back from his bearded face and smiles eagerly as he begins to talk about his work at the Innovation Partnership Building (IPB) at UConn Tech Park.
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UConn Again Named National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research
The University of Connecticut has been re-designated as a National Security Agency/Department of Homeland Security Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research through academic year 2024.
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UConn Receives Major Contract for Air Force R&D in Advanced Manufacturing
The University of Connecticut has secured a four-year, $5.4 million contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide next generation manufacturing solutions for the aerospace sector.
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Electron Microscopy Takes Additive Manufacturing to the Next Level
With the help of electron microscopy, researchers from UConn’s Innovation Partnership Building and Thermofisher Scientific are rapidly improving additive manufacturing processes to create a new generation of safer, more durable, and more customizable metal parts than was previously possible.
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UConn IASE recognized for their work with Sustainable CT Award Winner
Members from the UConn Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering (IASE) recently supported the Town of Fairfield’s application for recognition in the Sustainable Connecticut Program that earned them a top-level honor in the program.
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IPB Hosts Reception for German Delegates
German delegates capped off a full day on the UConn campus with a collegial reception at the Innovation Partnership Building.
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A Better Way to Make Acrylics
UConn Professor Steve Suib’s research with ExxonMobil featured on the DoE-Office of Science web site and on UConn Today.
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