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Interdisciplinary research is being conducted in all areas of engineering at Princeton. Following is a single example from each of the departments of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Chemical Engineering |
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 Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, associate professor of chemical engineering and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, is using a combination of theoretical, computational, and experimental techniques to model complex pathways in the development of the fruit fly. His projects include exploring the distribution of substances that direct the formation of different types of tissue in the embryo. This work has promising implications for the prevention and treatment of birth defects.
For more information, visit the Svartsman Laboratory website.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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 Michael A. Celia *79 *83, professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering, is part of a group assessing a novel approach to containing carbon emissions: capturing them and injecting them deep underground. To determine whether the gas could stay safely stored, Celia is working with the Alberta (Canada) Geological Survey to create large-scale 3D models to simulate how the carbon dioxide might shift underground and to anticipate potential problems. Catherine Peters, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has devised an imaging technique and color processing scheme to quantify the vulnerability of sandstones to attack by acids such as the carbonic acid produced by captured carbon dioxide.
For more information, visit the Subsurface Hydrology Research Group website.
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Computer Science |
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 Perry R. Cook, professor of computer science with a joint appointment in the Department of Music, is researching methods of amplifying audio signals obtained from ultrasounds as a possible way to identify plaque buildup in the carotid artery before it causes a stroke. His work is part of a project funded by the National Institutes of Health to develop a quick and inexpensive screening technique for stroke.
For more information, read Frontiers of health: Harmony in music and medicine (EQuad News Summer 2007).
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Electrical Engineering |
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 Ruby B. Lee, the Forrest G. Hamrick Professor in Engineering and professor of electrical engineering, is leading an effort to build “trust anchors” into computer hardware, to which software can be tethered to provide important security coverage. Her lab has already developed Secret Protection computer architecture that allows the transmission of sensitive information on an as-needed basis, so that it cannot be intercepted and access stops as soon as the recipient no longer has a legitimate need for it.
For more information, visit the Princeton Architecture Laboratory for Multimedia and Security.
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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 Winston Oluwole Soboyejo, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, is working on ways to use nanoparticles for detection and treatment of disease. In experimental studies of biomaterials and mechanical behavior, he is looking at how extremely small particles can be designed to seek out and find cancer cells. This technology may permit detection of tumors much smaller than those discernible by current imaging technology and eventually provide for the delivery of anticancer pharmaceuticals to unhealthy cells.
For more information visit the Soboyejo Research Group website.
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering |
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 Jianqing Fan, the Frederick L. Moore, Class of 1918, Professor in Finance, and professor of operations research and financial engineering, brings the statistical tools of finance to bear on a wide range of human health problems, including projects to identify the genes responsible for neuroblastoma, a devastating pediatric cancer; to distinguish the interactions between factors such as cholesterol and age in heart disease; and to explain the body’s response to spinal cord injury.
For more information, visit Fan's Statistics Lab website.
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