College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire

The College of Engineering and Physical Sciences' (CEPS) programs of study include: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Environmental Engineering , Mathematics & Statistics, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, and Physics.

CEPS is a world-class college with top-tier research in environmental science, space science, and engineering programs. Along with eight other universities UNH can make the claim of having a land, space and sea grant status. A prestigious status that proves beneficial to our ever growing dynamic research environment and our ability to attract external funding.

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CEPS Ph.D. student to receive international award: Dana Filoti, a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and advised by Physics Prof. James Harper, will be receiving a Graduate Student Award from the Thin Film Division of the American Vacuum Society at its International Symposium in San Jose, CA on Nov. 10, 2009. She will also be presenting a talk at the conference in a session on Nanostructuring Thin Films. Her talk is titled: Synergistic Ag (111) and Cu (111) Texture Evolution in Phase Segregated Cu1-xAgx Magnetron Sputtered Composite Thin Films. The Thin Film Division selects one student each year for this award. Symposium Info: http://www2.avs.org/symposium/ Nanomanufacturing Center Receives $12.25 Million from NSF: The National Science Foundation announced a $12.25 million renewal grant (five years) for the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing – a joint partnership between the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) aims to address one of the greatest challenges in nanotechnology: the ability to commercially produce nanoscale devices with components that are measured in nanometers (one nanometer equals one-billionth of a meter-- the diameter of a human hair is approximately 50,000 to 80,000 nanometers). UNH introduces new IT degree: Bachelor of science offering answers high demand. In response to a growing demand among employers, the University of New Hampshire will launch its new bachelor of science degree program in information technology this fall. The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy and the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent will undertake a joint survey mission to the Arctic next month. It is the second U.S.-Canadian Arctic mapping mission and the fifth U.S. Arctic cruise since 2003, the State Department's Hayes told reporters. The planned 41-day mission is set to begin Aug. 7. The two vessels will travel from the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska to the Canada Archipelago, surveying an underwater mountain range, the Alpha-Mendeleev Ridge. U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), toured the UNH ocean engineering facilty July 31, 2009, before announcing her request for funding to support UNH's Center for Ocean Renewable Energy has been approved by the U.S. Seanate in the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Appropriateions Bill. The $750,000 would be used to upgrade the program's existing tidal energy and wave energy test site. UNH Students to Participate in International Environmental Competition: Students from UNH will be among the 31 teams from across the U.S. and Canada at the 19th Annual Environmental Design Contest April 5-8 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Their task will be to convert wind energy into mechanical energy for water treatment. The Wire-UNH Researchers Seek Regional, Renewable Solutions: A team of engineering students and professor recently tested a tide turbine in the Great Bay estuary. They moored off the old General Sullivan Bridge between Newington and Dover, led by Martin Wosnik, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Renovated UNH Earth Science Building to be Greener, Leaner The renovation of James Hall, which is currently well underway, will create the university’s first bonafide green building. UNH has registered the building's construction with the U.S. Green Building Council to seek Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED certification. LEED is a rating system used to measure projects on their efficiency and sustainability practices.e Captured in Time: President Places Time Capsule in James Hall	.	November 18 -- CEPS Frontiers Lecture Series: "Engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory," Dennis O'Brien '77 (3:10-4:00 p.m.) Kingsbury N101. The College of Engineering & Physical Sciences Mission: Our mission is to serve our students so as to foster their highest aspirations. Our priority is the individual student. We aspire to create graduates that will become the future innovators and protagonists in their respective fields. We seek to instill in our students a mastery of fundamental disciplinary skills and principles, and the capacity to apply these. We additionally seek for our graduates to have a holistic and ethical awareness of their surrounding world, an appreciation for the value of cultural and intellectual diversity, and the ability to communicate technical information effectively within this context. CEPS 2009 Distinguished Alumnus Joe Paterno, Ph.D.,Recognized CEPS 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year: Sue Generazzo, TA in Mathematics CEPS Faculty Teacher of the Year: Dr. Gary Weisman, Professor in Chemistry All in the asphalt: Lesson brings engineering to life (Salem Observer), Salem High School teacher, Laura Preston learned how to make and test asphalt samples at UNH. The science teacher then used that knowledge to develop a lesson for her own geology students. Preston not only taught the class something they had known little about, but fostered in her students a love for scientific discovery and an appreciation for engineering. Her time spent at UNH was as a researcher for Dr. Jo Sias Daniel, an associate professor in Civil Engineering, and a team of graduate students known as Research Experience for Teachers. University Student Award: to honor the graduating senior who has displayed outstanding student service to the university (Jere A. Chase Service Award) Jeffrey W. Morin, ME CEPS student, Christopher Suprock takes the 21st Annual Paul J. Holloway Prize, U-wide Innovation-to-Market Competition, with his Wireless Sensor Integrated Metal Cutting Tool Holder. Foster’s: UNH high-tech expo inspires high school students: Students and their teachers traveled to the University of New Hampshire's Kingsbury Hall and Morse Hall for the second annual Explore High Technology Day hosted by the school's computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering departments. UNH Mapping Experts Reveal Arctic's Riches BOSTON (WBZ) ― Some New England scientists have just returned from a mission to the arctic where they were mapping the region's seafloor. It was a mission that could have a big impact on our future. "We know much more about the moon and several other planets than we do about the bottom of the Arctic Ocean," said mapping expert Larry Mayer of the University of New Hampshire. Mayer is helping to change that along with his University of New Hampshire team that has been mapping the shape of the Arctic Sea floor. Alaska Fish may Set Off Geopolitical Dispute Andrew Rosenberg, former deputy director of the National Marine Fisheries Service and current UNH professor, expects the pollock to be a test case in an emerging pattern to fish driven by climate change across jurisdictional boundaries. Alaskan pollock are becoming Russian pollock, swimming across an international boundary in search of food and setting off what could become a geopolitical dispute. (Kenneth Weiss, Los Angeles Times), The Battle for the Arctic The DoteArth blog in the New York Times showcases the CBC documentary that features the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) and interviews with Larry Mayer. There’s a link to the video on the blog here: Really Going Green (America's Heartland video) Converting that green goo into energy for the future! Chemical Engineering student, Danah Hashem says, “I feel this is extremely important. The political ramifications, the financial ramifications, the environmental ramifications are huge in reducing our usage, our dependency on oil as an energy source. Boston Globe Correspondent. Union Leader: UNH Center Will Test the Tides (AP story, also ran in Boston Globe, Portland Press Herald, WCAX-TV Vermont, WFFF Fos Vermont) University of New Hampshire researchers exploring how to tap the ocean's power to generate electricity say they need more money to reach their project's next goal.

CEPS Ph.D. student to receive international award: Dana Filoti, a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and advised by Physics Prof. James Harper, will be receiving a Graduate Student Award from the Thin Film Division of the American Vacuum Society at its International Symposium in San Jose, CA on Nov. 10, 2009. She will also be presenting a talk at the conference in a session on Nanostructuring Thin Films. Her talk is titled: Synergistic Ag (111) and Cu (111) Texture Evolution in Phase Segregated Cu1-xAgx Magnetron Sputtered Composite Thin Films. The Thin Film Division selects one student each year for this award. Symposium Info: http://www2.avs.org/symposium/

Nanomanufacturing Center Receives $12.25 Million from NSF: The National Science Foundation announced a $12.25 million renewal grant (five years) for the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing – a joint partnership between the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) aims to address one of the greatest challenges in nanotechnology: the ability to commercially produce nanoscale devices with components that are measured in nanometers (one nanometer equals one-billionth of a meter-- the diameter of a human hair is approximately 50,000 to 80,000 nanometers).

UNH introduces new IT degree: Bachelor of science offering answers high demand. In response to a growing demand among employers, the University of New Hampshire will launch its new bachelor of science degree program in information technology this fall.

The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy and the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent will undertake a joint survey mission to the Arctic next month. It is the second U.S.-Canadian Arctic mapping mission and the fifth U.S. Arctic cruise since 2003, the State Department's Hayes told reporters.

The planned 41-day mission is set to begin Aug. 7. The two vessels will travel from the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska to the Canada Archipelago, surveying an underwater mountain range, the Alpha-Mendeleev Ridge.

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), toured the UNH ocean engineering facilty July 31, 2009, before announcing her request for funding to support UNH's Center for Ocean Renewable Energy has been approved by the U.S. Seanate in the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Appropriateions Bill. The $750,000 would be used to upgrade the program's existing tidal energy and wave energy test site.

UNH Students to Participate in International Environmental Competition: Students from UNH will be among the 31 teams from across the U.S. and Canada at the 19th Annual Environmental Design Contest April 5-8 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Their task will be to convert wind energy into mechanical energy for water treatment.

The Wire-UNH Researchers Seek Regional, Renewable Solutions: A team of engineering students and professor recently tested a tide turbine in the Great Bay estuary. They moored off the old General Sullivan Bridge between Newington and Dover, led by Martin Wosnik, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

Renovated UNH Earth Science Building to be Greener, Leaner The renovation of James Hall, which is currently well underway, will create the university’s first bonafide green building. UNH has registered the building's construction with the U.S. Green Building Council to seek Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED certification. LEED is a rating system used to measure projects on their efficiency and sustainability practices.e

Captured in Time: President Places Time Capsule in James Hall

November

18 -- CEPS Frontiers Lecture Series: "Engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory," Dennis O'Brien '77 (3:10-4:00 p.m.) Kingsbury N101.

The College of Engineering & Physical Sciences Mission:
Our mission is to serve our students so as to foster their highest aspirations. Our priority is the individual student. We aspire to create graduates that will become the future innovators and protagonists in their respective fields. We seek to instill in our students a mastery of fundamental disciplinary skills and principles, and the capacity to apply these. We additionally seek for our graduates to have a holistic and ethical awareness of their surrounding world, an appreciation for the value of cultural and intellectual diversity, and the ability to communicate technical information effectively within this context.

CEPS 2009 Distinguished Alumnus Joe Paterno, Ph.D.,Recognized

CEPS 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year:
Sue Generazzo, TA in Mathematics

CEPS Faculty Teacher of the Year:
Dr. Gary Weisman, Professor in Chemistry

All in the asphalt: Lesson brings engineering to life (Salem Observer), Salem High School teacher, Laura Preston learned how to make and test asphalt samples at UNH. The science teacher then used that knowledge to develop a lesson for her own geology students. Preston not only taught the class something they had known little about, but fostered in her students a love for scientific discovery and an appreciation for engineering. Her time spent at UNH was as a researcher for Dr. Jo Sias Daniel, an associate professor in Civil Engineering, and a team of graduate students known as Research Experience for Teachers.

University Student Award: to honor the graduating senior who has displayed outstanding student service to the university (Jere A. Chase Service Award) Jeffrey W. Morin, ME

CEPS student, Christopher Suprock takes the 21st Annual Paul J. Holloway Prize, U-wide Innovation-to-Market Competition, with his Wireless Sensor Integrated Metal Cutting Tool Holder.

Foster’s: UNH high-tech expo inspires high school students: Students and their teachers traveled to the University of New Hampshire's Kingsbury Hall and Morse Hall for the second annual Explore High Technology Day hosted by the school's computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering departments.

UNH Mapping Experts Reveal Arctic's Riches BOSTON (WBZ) ― Some New England scientists have just returned from a mission to the arctic where they were mapping the region's seafloor.

It was a mission that could have a big impact on our future.

"We know much more about the moon and several other planets than we do about the bottom of the Arctic Ocean," said mapping expert Larry Mayer of the University of New Hampshire.

Mayer is helping to change that along with his University of New Hampshire team that has been mapping the shape of the Arctic Sea floor.

Alaska Fish may Set Off Geopolitical Dispute Andrew Rosenberg, former deputy director of the National Marine Fisheries Service and current UNH professor, expects the pollock to be a test case in an emerging pattern to fish driven by climate change across jurisdictional boundaries. Alaskan pollock are becoming Russian pollock, swimming across an international boundary in search of food and setting off what could become a geopolitical dispute. (Kenneth Weiss, Los Angeles Times),

The Battle for the Arctic
The DoteArth blog in the New York Times showcases the CBC documentary that features the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) and interviews with Larry Mayer. There’s a link to the video on the blog here:

Really Going Green (America's Heartland video) Converting that green goo into energy for the future! Chemical Engineering student, Danah Hashem says, “I feel this is extremely important. The political ramifications, the financial ramifications, the environmental ramifications are huge in reducing our usage, our dependency on oil as an energy source. Boston Globe Correspondent.

Union Leader: UNH Center Will Test the Tides (AP story, also ran in Boston Globe, Portland Press Herald, WCAX-TV Vermont, WFFF Fos Vermont) University of New Hampshire researchers exploring how to tap the ocean's power to generate electricity say they need more money to reach their project's next goal.