New CARD Chair and Co-Chair
By Victoria Birk Hill January 15, 2025
We are pleased to share that Xue Liu, of BASF, has stepped up from Co-Chair to Chair of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) for CARD, and Stephen Cobbe, Kerry, has stepped into the position of Co-Chair. Thank you both for your commitment to CARD. Recently, Sanjay Sarang, PepsiCo, stepped down as Chair of the Industry […]
CARD Researcher Yash Shah’s Paper Chosen for InterPore Journal Cover
By Victoria Birk Hill January 6, 2025
UIUC’s professor Pawan Takhar’s student Yash Shah’s paper entitled “Hybrid mixture theory-based modeling of unsaturated transport in a deforming porous food matrix during frying” has been selected for the cover page of Interpore Journal. It is an International Society of Porous Media Journal. This is quite an honor since the editors selected it independently. As […]
Innovative Light Technology Mitigates Contamination of Cereal Grains
By Victoria Birk Hill January 6, 2025
In a new study, researchers evaluated far-ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light as a safe way to alleviate fungal contamination of corn and wheat and found this technology to be effective. The study co-author Yi-Cheng Wang, assistant professor in FSHN at UIUC, and lead author Zhenhui Jin (UIUC), a recent graduate of FSHN’s doctoral program, tested the […]
Nyle Thermal Joins CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 22, 2024
Professors Jamal Yagoobi, Kedar Shete, and Mehdi Mortazavi along with Mana Masrouri, a CARD PhD student, visited Nyle Thermal located in Brewer/Bangor, Maine, on December 19, 2024. We are delighted to announce that Nyle Thermal is in the process of joining CARD as an affiliate member. Since 1977, Nyle Thermal has been manufacturing innovative, industrial […]
Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti Successfully Defends PhD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 16, 2024
We are pleased to share that CARD researcher and WPI student, Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti, successfully defended her PhD entitled, “Misting of Liquid and Dehydration of Moist Porous Media with Direct and Airborne Ultrasonic Wave – a Fundamental and Applied Study” on December 9th, 2024. Her research combines a fundamental understanding of ultrasonic atomization and integration […]
IPG’s Recent Visit to CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 6, 2024
Natalia Pavlova, a member of IPG Photonic’s Board and a Trustee to the VPG Foundation (a family foundation supporting the philanthropic endeavors of IPG’s founder, Valentin P. Gapontsev) and Dr. Igor Samartsev, IPG’s Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist, visited the CARD Lab at WPI recently. During their visit, various technologies installed in the Smart […]
Jamal Yagoobi Gives Keynote Presentation at 23rd International Drying Symposium
By Victoria Birk Hill November 30, 2024
Professor and CARD director, Jamal Yagoobi, gave a keynote presentation at the 23rd International Drying Symposium (IDS) which was held in Wuxi, China in November 2024. The title of his presentation was “Decarbonizing Industrial Drying – The Role of Academic Institutions.” Click here if you’d like to learn more about IDS 2024.
Yuxiang Liu to Serve as Co-PI on Research that Will Analyze Artery Blockages in the Brain
By Victoria Birk Hill November 25, 2024
We are pleased to share that CARD faculty member and researcher, Yuxiang Liu, along with his WPI colleague, Yihao Zheng, have been awarded a $1.1 million grant to build a fiber-optic probe that will analyze artery blockages in the brain and guide procedures for clot removal. The research will ultimately help improve treatment for ischemic […]
$2.75 Million DOE Grant Awarded for CARD Research
By Victoria Birk Hill November 19, 2024
We are thrilled to report that founding CARD director, Jamal Yagoobi, along with his research team have been awarded a $2.75 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to drastically cut emissions and energy use in industrial drying. “We are all excited about this — this is potentially a groundbreaking technology,” said Yagoobi. His team has […]
CARD Student Poster Winners – October 2024
By Victoria Birk Hill October 30, 2024
We are pleased to announce the following winners of CARD’s Fall 2024 poster competition that was held at CARD’s Industry Advisory Board meeting, October 9-11, 2024 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Featured left to right are Hanshen Yu (honorable mention), Ocean Monjur (2nd place), Mana Masrouri (1st place), Yanyao Yu (3rd place). 1st Place: […]