“There is no lone genius who solves all the problems.”
Dennis Whyte, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), is reflecting on a guiding belief behind his nuclear science and engineering class 22.63 (Principles of Fusion Engineering). He has recently watched his students, working in teams, make their final presentations on how to use fusion technology to create carbon-free fuel for shipping vessels. Since taking on the course over a decade ago, Whyte has moved away from standard lectures, prodding the class to work collectively on finding solutions to “real-world” issues. Over the past years the course, and its collaborative approach to design, has been instrumental in guiding the real future of fusion at the PSFC.
DCU appoints two leading academics in the areas of plasma physics and computer science under the Senior Academic Leadership Initiative
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Caption: First row, left to right: Navid Azizan, Rodrigo Freitas, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Jack Hare. Second row, left to right: Samuel Hopkins, Michael Howland, Yoon Kim, Adrian Lozano-Duran, Kelly Metcalf Pate. Third row, left to right: Anand Natarajan, Jelena Notaros, Carlos Portela, Ashia Wilson, Sixian You.
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The School of Engineering is welcoming 15 new faculty members to its departments, institutes, labs, and centers. With research and teaching activities ranging from the development of robotics and AI technologies to the modeling and optimization of renewable energy systems, they are poised to make significant contributions in new directions across the school and to a wide range of research efforts around the Institute.