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Pictured left to right: Sandhya Susarla, assistant professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, is shown with her students, Sriram Sankar, Patrick Hays and Mahir Manna, in a microscopy lab at ASU. She recently received the 2025 Society Awards from the Microscopy Society of America, the highest early career honor in the field of microscopy. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

Spearheading next wave of human flourishing

ASU researcher receives the 2025 Society Award for paving the way for unprecedented discoveries in quantum computing.

Candace Chan, a professor of materials science and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, holds a lithium-ion battery cell. Chan recently won a seed grant from the ASU Center for Clean Energy Materials to investigate how to better recycle lithium-ion batteries. Photographer: Roger Ndayisaba/ASU

ASU researcher to streamline battery recycling

ASU researcher gets funding to help secure the country’s energy self-sufficiency

Michael Bessolo (left) presents mementos from the “More Electric, More Efficient” Aircraft Industry Day event to (from center left to right) Anthony Waas, Amy Jankovsky and Todd Giles. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

ASU and Honeywell spotlight next-gen aircraft technology

At a recent event, ASU brought together academia, industry and government to network and exchange aircraft fuel efficiency ideas.

Five faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering are receiving more than $2 million in funding from the Arizona Department of Health Services for research to improve health care in the state. (Left to right) Xiangfan Chen, an assistant professor of manufacturing engineering; Kuei-Chun “Mark” Wang, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering; Mehdi Nikkhah, an associate professor of biomedical engineering; Wanxin Jin, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and Wenlong Zhang, an associate professor of manufacturing engineering, are pictured against a stylized background of “A” Mountain near the ASU Tempe campus. Image created by Sarah Pierson/ASU

Engineering a healthier Arizona: Fulton researchers tackle urgent health challenges

Five Fulton Schools researchers have received grants from the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre to tackle medical challenges.

Use of an advanced in situ electron microscope that enables atoms within nanoparticles to be closely observed under a wide range of conditions is aiding research led by Professor Peter Crozier to explore ways to improve materials used in many engineering and related technological applications. Standing with Crozier (second from left) in an Arizona State University microscopy facility are others involved in the research, material science and engineering doctoral students Yifan Wang (far left) and Blake Dorame (far right), along with doctoral student Mai Tan (sitting at left) and Piyush Haluai (sitting at right), a research engineer in ASU’s Eyring Materials Center. Photographer: Yifan Wang./caption]

Intricate movements of tiny pieces of matter hold key to engineering innovation

Fulton Schools researchers join prominent colleagues to seek materials engineering advances through microscopic views of nanoparticle behavior.

Brothers and Arizona State University chemical engineering alumni, (left to right) Ron and Stanley Hall, both graduated with chemical engineering degrees in 1982. They each went on to have fulfilling engineering careers, crediting their time at ASU as critical to their success. Photo courtesy of Stanley Hall

Flashback to ’82: How ASU paved the way to success for Stanley and Ron Hall

ASU chemical engineering alum Ron and Stanley Hall’s fulfilling career journeys despite early hiccups

Yang Jiao, a professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, demonstrates his work mathematically in his office. He discovered the existence of hyperuniformity, an exotic state of matter, in quantum mechanical systems. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

ASU researcher Yang Jiao discovers special state of matter

An ASU professor publishes a paper on a new exotic state of matter in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kiran Solanki receives the 2025 Brimacombe Medalist Award

Kiran Solanki, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, has been selected as one of only nine recipients of the 2025 Brimacombe Medalist Award by the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, or TMS….

(Right to left) Regents Professor Aditi Chattopadhyay, who teaches in the mechanical and aerospace engineering program in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, examines a piece of material in her lab with two students (Jacob Eaton and Mohamed Hamza)

Unraveling materials’ microstructure

ASU Regents Professor Aditi Chattopadhyay pioneers materials engineering while mentoring students Advances in materials science — such as the discovery of materials that can withstand harsh environments and the engineering of adaptive, self-repairing structures — have led to increased safety and durability in the systems we rely on daily. Regents Professor Aditi Chattopadhyay is one of…

Kathy King, an Arizona State University chemical engineering alumna, and her husband, Scott King. Their career journeys show the diverse applications of engineering and hope it will inspire students in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering to continually acquire new skills. Photographer: Roger Ndayisaba/ASU

Alum’s journey to leadership shows the power of lifelong learning

Kathy King and Scott King are dedicated to supporting ASU’s future engineers and problem-solvers