Zahra Noori Awarded Internship at Mondelez
By Victoria Birk Hill January 19, 2022
Zahra Noori, WPI PhD student of Professor Jamal Yagoobi, has been awarded an internship by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work at Mondelez International from January 1 to April 30, 2022. Zahra will be working with the R&D teams in East Hanover, NJ during her internship. Zahra is earning her PhD in Mechanical and […]
Students Meet, Fall in Love, Marry
By Victoria Birk Hill January 12, 2022
We wanted to share this special story. Four years ago, one of our graduate students, Zahra Noori, started working in Prof. Jamal Yagoobi’s research group. There she met Nathaniel O’Connor. Both are PhD students in Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WPI. Over the years, their friendship blossomed into something more. The happy couple married in […]
Technical Papers Presented at IMECE 2021
By Victoria Birk Hill November 22, 2021
Two of our technical papers were presented at this year’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE). The first paper, Experimental Study of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Drying Process with Dielectrophoresis Mechanism, focuses on an energy efficient method to enhance the drying rate of porous materials. More details about the paper and its authors can […]
Annual Meeting Updates
By Victoria Birk Hill October 29, 2021
We had our annual voting meeting on October 21st and 22nd, 2021. The meeting was held virtually because of COVID. There were 18 presentations of current and future projects with technologies ranging from Electrohydrodymic, Ultrasound, and Plasma drying, to modeling and physics-based AI and Machine Learning proposals, along with new Sensor technologies. There were 80 […]
NSF Phase II Funding Allows CARD to Focus on Energy Reduction
By Victoria Birk Hill October 12, 2021
The National Science Foundation has approved Phase II funding for CARD. This will allow CARD to build upon five years of successful drying innovations in order to help reduce the considerable energy consumption by manufacturers across varying industries. According to Jamal Yagoobi, director of CARD and head of WPI’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, “The NSF’s […]
Shao Receives ASME Award
By Victoria Birk Hill July 30, 2021
We are pleased to share that Assistant Professor, Chenhui Shao of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign received the 2021 Chao & Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The award recognizes a young manufacturing researcher under 40 with potential for significant fundamental contributions to the science and technology of […]
CARD Research Featured on Cover of TAPPI
By Victoria Birk Hill June 15, 2021
The most recent issue of TAPPI Journal, an internationally recognized technical publication that publishes the latest research on forest products, features research by CARD. The project is called: “Fundamental understanding of removal of liquid thin film trapped between fibers in the paper drying process.” The team working on this project includes Jamal Yagoobi, Zahra Noori, […]
Fidele Abedi Receives 2nd Place in Student Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill June 1, 2021
Fidele Abedi took second place in the annual Food Science and Human Nutrition Department Graduate Student Poster symposium at the University of Illinois. Fidele’s Poster focused on modeling stress/strain impacts on bananas during drying. Fidele was one of six finalists in the oral presentation category. The aim of this competition is to showcase innovative research […]
Shao Wins IISE Early Career Award
By Victoria Birk Hill May 25, 2021
The well-deserved achievements of Chenhui Shao, Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Science & Engineering department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have earned him the 2021 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Manufacturing & Design Division (IISE M&D). This award recognizes outstanding, early-career Manufacturing and Design (M&D) Division members […]
Zahra Noori Earns Top Presenter in WPI Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill May 11, 2021
Congratulations Zahra Noori! She was selected as top presenter in Graduate Students of WPI’s 13th Annual Sustainability Project Competition for her project: “Experimental Study of Drying of Paper with Ultrasound Mechanism.” The projects competing in the competition each address a present societal need without compromising the ability to meet the needs of future generations. Projects […]