CARD May 2025 Student Poster Winners
By Victoria Birk Hill June 3, 2025
We are pleased to announce the winners of CARD’s May 2025 poster competition that was held at CARD’s Industry Advisory Board meeting, May 28-30, 2025 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL. 1st Place: Anurag Bhattacharjee, WPI – “A CFD-Based Numerical Tool to Predict Particle Characteristics in Spray Drying”. 2nd Place tie: Mucheng Li, WPI […]
CARD Spring IAB Meeting
By Victoria Birk Hill June 2, 2025
On May 28-30, 2025 the CARD Spring Industry Advisory Board Meeting (IAB) was held at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It was attended by 50+ registrants that included IAB members, guests, faculty, students, and administrative staff. Our students did an impressive job presenting project and poster results. Members had several opportunities to meet and discuss CARD’s […]
CARD Hosts Successful AI Symposium Exploring Real-World Impact and Innovation
By Victoria Birk Hill June 2, 2025
On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, the Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD), an NSF IUCRC, hosted the “AI-Powered Innovation: From Fundamentals to Real-World Impact Symposium” at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois campus. The event, held from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM, attracted strong attendance from stakeholders in the […]
CARD Leadership Visits Kraft Heinz R&D Headquarters
By Victoria Birk Hill May 28, 2025
As part of the benefits in CARD membership, the CARD leadership team and select faculty members visited Kraft Heinz R&D Headquarters located in Glenview, IL on May 27, 2025. The CARD team and Kraft Heinz participants had a productive meeting where they reviewed current CARD projects in detail along with other technical topics of interest […]
Dr. Kamruzzaman Receives Faculty Research Award
By Victoria Birk Hill April 21, 2025
We are delighted to share that CARD faculty member, Dr. Mohammed Kamruzzaman, received the 2025 Agricultural & Biological Engineering (ABE) Faculty Research Excellence Award. Dr. Kamruzzaman’s research has focused on making sophisticated sensing technology more accessible, including the development of deep learning-based hyperspectral imaging and pioneering organic nanozyme-based biosensing for detecting food and agricultural contaminants […]
CARD Hosts AI Symposium – May 28, 2025
By Victoria Birk Hill April 2, 2025
The Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD) is hosting an AI symposium on May 28, 2025 from 10:30 to 3:30. The symposium will explore how artificial intelligence transforms complex systems, drives sustainable innovation, and revolutionizes decision-making. Experts from academia and industry will discuss breakthroughs in AI-powered process optimization, generative design, and interdisciplinary applications across […]
Saint-Gobain Joins CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill March 19, 2025
We are pleased to share that Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Plastics has joined CARD as a Full Member. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and services for the construction and industrial markets. These solutions are found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide […]
Mass. Climatetech Economic Development Plan Launched at WPI
By Victoria Birk Hill February 26, 2025
On Friday, February 21, 2025, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO, Emily Reichert, announced the launch of Massachusetts’ Climatetech Economic Development Plan at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Sagamore Labs. The plan is a comprehensive roadmap to solidify Massachusetts as the global leader in climatetech innovation, drive equitable economic growth, and advance the state’s net-zero climate goals. […]
Electric Power Research Institute Visits CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill February 4, 2025
We are pleased to share that Scott Bishop and Baskar Vairamohan, of Electric Power Research Institute, visited the CARD lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on February 4, 2025 to explore the new drying technologies being developed within CARD. Featured in the photo are: Back row – Itamar Harris and Hanshen Yu (both PhD students) and […]
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 […]