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Engineering Research at Dartmouth

Dartmouth engineering researchers work within an integrated community of experts in their fields, unencumbered by departmental divisions. Our faculty and students are versatile thinkers who can define a problem, place it within the broad social and economic contexts, and articulate a clear vision for a human-centered approach toward a solution.

Most research projects are collaborations that integrate one or more engineering disciplines with other sciences. Students working in these labs learn important lessons about the interconnectedness of the world and develop both depth and breadth that make them innovators and leaders in emerging technologies.

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Culture of Collaboration

Dartmouth Engineering is a close-knit community of scholars with a broad range of expertise. The culture of collaboration extends across the hall, across campus, and beyond. Many research projects engage colleagues from other institutions such as Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Geisel School of Medicine, Tuck School of Business, Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, and CRREL, as well as industry—and offer numerous research opportunities for undergraduates.

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Research Quick Takes

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.

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."

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.

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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