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Dec 20, 2024   |   by Catha Mayor

Stories of 2024: Highlights from Dartmouth Engineering

Some highlights of this year's Dartmouth Engineering stories from our website, magazine, and across campus.

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Dec 12, 2024 | Irving Institute

Geoffrey Parker Appointed Faculty Director of the Irving Institute for Energy and Society

Dec 11, 2024

Dartmouth Engineers Help Develop New Way to Understand Long-Term Damage Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Dec 10, 2024

Dartmouth Engineering Study Shows Machine Learning Can Help Airlines Recover Faster After Disruptions

Nov 21, 2024

Dartmouth Engineering Receives NOAA Award to Expand Arctic Monitoring Technologies

Nov 19, 2024 | Magnuson Center

Dartmouth Medtech Company Turns to Equity Crowdfunding

Nov 13, 2024

Dartmouth Engineering Student Wins Ivy Collective Symposium's Three-Minute Thesis Competition

Nov 10, 2024 | Irving Institute

Dartmouth Hosts Heat Pump Workshop to Catalyze the Home Energy Transition

Nov 04, 2024

Benton Routh Named 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Fellow

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Dartmouth Students Help Lebanon Plan for E-Bike Chargers

A team of Dartmouth engineering students—Avery Moorhead '25, Nathan McAllister '25, Gannon Forsberg '25, and Grace Connolly '25—are helping bring public electric bicycle charging to Lebanon. "It's also great to see your work in a tangible sense given that it's a local project, where many of the projects aren't local so you might never see any result of your work," Moorhead said.

Dec 01, 2024

Assoc of Health Care Journalists

Worthless back surgeries are a nagging pain for US health care

Professor Sohail Mirza is featured in an article about the risks of unnecessary back surgeries. "I think the literature is very clear that once you have any kind of back surgery, you're on the path to have more and more back surgeries," Mirza said.

Nov 26, 2024

Lown Institute

Five ways to reduce back surgery overuse

Professor Sohail Mirza is featured in an article about what's causing back surgery overuse and how to stop it. "The first thing is that you need more opinions. I see so many patients who wish they had sought additional opinions before signing up for an invasive treatment," Mirza said.

Nov 19, 2024

TIME

Considering the Case for Hydrogen Home Heating

Dean Alexis Abramson is author of an opinion piece about the potential of using hydrogen for heating buildings. "The remarkable rise in electrification in recent years is a testament to America's commitment to the clean energy transition. Electric heat pumps powered by clean electricity will play a significant role in decarbonization of the grid, but they are not, alone, a viable solution everywhere," Abramson said.

Nov 08, 2024

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Professor Hui Fang

NIH Grant Supports New Tools for Neuroscience

Professor Hui Fang's research group was awarded $2.6M over five years from NIH to develop and optimize a new type of microelectrode array probe used for parallel neuromodulator sensing and electrophysiological recording. "Refining and validating this type of probe would directly enable numerous studies in both basic and translational neuroscience, would be applicable to many other devices, such as DBS and sEEG electrodes, and would also bring the technology a significant step closer to commercial manufacturing," said Fang.

Figure showing quantum defects

Silicon for the Quantum Defect Era

Research associates Yihuang Xiong and Jiongzhi Zheng, PhD student Shay McBride, and Professor Geoffroy Hautier are co-authors of "Computationally Driven Discovery of T Center-like Quantum Defects in Silicon" published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. "Finding new 'quantum defects' facilitates bringing quantum technologies to real world scalable technologies." says Hautier. Adds Xiong, "Our study identifies several silicon defects that were overlooked before the quantum defect era and proposes high-yield synthesis routes."

A foldable LED circuit

On the Future of Flexible Electronics

Professor Will Scheideler authored "Nimble native oxides: Printing circuits from the skin of liquid metal," published in Matter, which focuses on new two-dimensional metal oxides that are thin, transparent, and flexible. "This preview highlights the opportunities for new applications of flexible and printed electronics and discusses a few of the most important challenges for this emerging research field," says Scheideler.

Anisia Tiplea with her research poster

BMES Annual Meeting

At the 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MS student Anisia Tiplea '24 presented her senior honors thesis, and Hixon Lab gave an invited talk on their bone regeneration work​​​ supported by the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer.

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