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Chris Muhich, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, in his lab. He recently received the Humboldt Research Fellowship to collaborate with researchers at TU Berlin on software that makes creating new zeolite-based catalysts faster and cheaper. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

ASU researcher charts a roadmap to cleaner energy

Chris Muhich will spend each summer over the next three years in Germany studying zeolites, a solid material widely used in renewable energy production.

In Devils Prosthetics, a student-led project turned startup, a person is holding a white 3D-printed robotic hand prototype. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

Pitching pediatric prosthetics solutions

Devil’s Prosthetics grew from a student project into a startup-bound team building affordable myoelectric prosthetics to improve children’s lives.

Jean Andino, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She has recently been designated a Board Certified Environmental Engineer via eminence in air pollution control by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. Photographer: Robert Mayfield/ASU

Restoring access to clean air

Fulton Schools Associate Professor Jean Andino develops patent-pending technology to control carbon dioxide levels in vehicles.

ASU electrical engineering master’s student Shreenidhi Anand walks through a cleanroom holding a wafer at MacroTechnology Works. Photographer: Samantha Chow/ASU

ASU and Applied Materials open MTF Center to fuel chip innovation

Fulton Schools plays critical role in $270M Tempe hub that unites academic discovery with industrial-scale tools to fast-track next-generation semiconductor innovations.

An illustration of an industrial fuel pipeline. A team of Arizona State University researchers, including faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU, is developing innovative robotics and systems powered by artificial intelligence, or AI, for fuel pipeline inspections. The systems will allow infrastructure experts to access pipelines once considered impossible to inspect, enabling safety checks that are long overdue. Image courtesy of whitestorm/Adobe Stock and generated using AI

Smarter fuel pipelines, safer communities

Backed by the National Science Foundation, Fulton Schools faculty are creating soft robots and AI tools to inspect aging fuel pipelines.

Jiefeng Sun, an assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (pictured in his campus lab), has received a $375,000 National Science Foundation grant for research that could lead to products that sense their surroundings and adapt their form. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

Will robots ever adapt to their environment?

ASU researcher to discover how to make products capable of changing shape to achieve certain outcomes.

Accelerating the flow of discovery

ASU’s Mohamed Houssem Kasbaoui is revolutionizing fluid dynamics simulations, cutting computation from months to hours to accelerate innovation.

The real reason we sweat

ASU Assistant Professor Rykaczewski reveals the key to optimizing cooling in extreme heat in a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Uncovering psoriasis’s root cause

ASU researcher Jordan Yaron received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to uncover the root cause of psoriasis.

ASU Engineering introduces new faculty for 2025–26

The Fulton Schools is continually growing its teaching and research enterprise to increase the scope and impact of its educational programs and research initiatives.