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Joe Davidson, an emeritus professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, poses for a photo. He recently established a fellowship to support graduate students in mechanical engineering and robotics. Photographer: Roger Ndayisaba/ASU

New fellowship supports future engineers in robotics, mechanical engineering

Emeritus Professor Joe Davidson establishes a fellowship to expand graduate opportunities in high-demand engineering fields.

Where engineers learn to lead

A revived student chapter is helping future engineers master business, strategy and team leadership.

Ryan Milcarek (far right), an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace 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 with students and industry partners. Milcarek’s research aims to make energy systems cleaner and more efficient. Photo courtesy of Milcarek.

Meeting the ever-increasing energy demand

The CEPS Laboratory develops and evaluates energy systems that are cleaner and more efficient.

Richard d’Arcy (left), an assistant 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, with Fatemeh Kashani Asadi Jafari, a biological design graduate student. D’Arcy recently received a 2026 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to help streamline the design of new drugs for deadly diseases such as cancer. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

ASU researcher aims to make nanomedicine mainstream

ASU researcher Richard D’Arcy earns an NSF CAREER Award to build AI tools for cancer drug discovery.

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.