Meet the Tufts Engineering Class of 2013
This year, 195 students make up the entering class at the School of Engineering, which saw a 9 percent increase in undergraduate applications, to an all-time high of 2,232. Overall, engineering applications have increased nearly 25 percent in the last three years. Read more about the Tufts Class of 2013.
STOMP Goes to Google
The Center for Engineering Education and Outreach's program called STOMP--Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program--now has a branch called iSTOMP in which Tufts students train industry engineers, like those at Google, to reach out to local schools and improve existing science, technology, engineering, and math curriculum using LEGO-based projects.
Monitoring Change
Kofi Aninakwa (E'11) used the Summer Scholar program to combine medicine and engineering through the creation of a wearable health monitor. Working with Sameer Sonkusale, electrical and computer engineering assistant professor, Aninakwa spent this past summer building electrical circuits for this health sensor.
Mapping the Technological Edges
Graduate student, Shahan Nercessian's research gives computers the 'vision' to make advances in medical and security imaging. The algorithms that Nercessian writes help computers determine the edges of an object, like the outline of a tumor in an MRI scan or a suspicious package in the airport security scanner.
Graduate Diversity Day Successful
This summer, more than 140 undergraduate students from underrepresented groups visited Tufts campus to learn more about advanced degrees from Tufts' professional schools, as well as programs in Arts, Sciences and Engineering. This conference provided a window into higher education possibilities for students who, traditionally, make up a small percentage of the graduate student population in the United States.
Fall Engineering Alumni Events
This fall, the School of Engineering sponsored two alumni events. In September, Computer Science professor Rob Jacob gave a lecture entitled, "Brain-Computer Interface: Communicating with Technology in the Future." In October, alumni met in Washington, D.C. to tour Curio House -- a collaborative project between Tufts University and Boston Architectural College as part of the 2009 Solar Decathlon Competition.
To learn more about these and other upcoming events, please contact Jonathan Kaplan, Associate Director of Alumni Relations.
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