Itamar Harris Selected as Winner of WPI’s 17th Annual Sustainability Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill April 22, 2025
We are delighted to announce that PhD candidate Itamar Harris, under the guidance of Dr. Jamal Yagoobi, was selected as the winner of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s 17th Annual Sustainability Project Competition. Harris presented her project, “Laser Technology for Sustainable Industrial Drying, Baking, and Dehydration,” emphasizing the potential of laser technology to drive decarbonization and accelerate […]
Dr. Kamruzzaman Receives Faculty Research Award
By Victoria Birk Hill April 21, 2025
We are delighted to share that CARD faculty member, Dr. Mohammed Kamruzzaman, received the 2025 Agricultural & Biological Engineering (ABE) Faculty Research Excellence Award. Dr. Kamruzzaman’s research has focused on making sophisticated sensing technology more accessible, including the development of deep learning-based hyperspectral imaging and pioneering organic nanozyme-based biosensing for detecting food and agricultural contaminants […]
CARD Hosts AI Symposium – May 28, 2025
By Victoria Birk Hill April 2, 2025
The Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD) is hosting an AI symposium on May 28, 2025 from 10:30 to 3:30. The symposium will explore how artificial intelligence transforms complex systems, drives sustainable innovation, and revolutionizes decision-making. Experts from academia and industry will discuss breakthroughs in AI-powered process optimization, generative design, and interdisciplinary applications across […]
Saint-Gobain Joins CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill March 19, 2025
We are pleased to share that Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Plastics has joined CARD as a Full Member. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and services for the construction and industrial markets. These solutions are found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide […]
Mass. Climatetech Economic Development Plan Launched at WPI
By Victoria Birk Hill February 26, 2025
On Friday, February 21, 2025, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO, Emily Reichert, announced the launch of Massachusetts’ Climatetech Economic Development Plan at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Sagamore Labs. The plan is a comprehensive roadmap to solidify Massachusetts as the global leader in climatetech innovation, drive equitable economic growth, and advance the state’s net-zero climate goals. […]
Electric Power Research Institute Visits CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill February 4, 2025
We are pleased to share that Scott Bishop and Baskar Vairamohan, of Electric Power Research Institute, visited the CARD lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on February 4, 2025 to explore the new drying technologies being developed within CARD. Featured in the photo are: Back row – Itamar Harris and Hanshen Yu (both PhD students) and […]
New CARD Chair and Co-Chair
By Victoria Birk Hill January 15, 2025
We are pleased to share that Xue Liu, of BASF, has stepped up from Co-Chair to Chair of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) for CARD, and Stephen Cobbe, Kerry, has stepped into the position of Co-Chair. Thank you both for your commitment to CARD. Recently, Sanjay Sarang, PepsiCo, stepped down as Chair of the Industry […]
CARD Researcher Yash Shah’s Paper Chosen for InterPore Journal Cover
By Victoria Birk Hill January 6, 2025
UIUC’s professor Pawan Takhar’s student Yash Shah’s paper entitled “Hybrid mixture theory-based modeling of unsaturated transport in a deforming porous food matrix during frying” has been selected for the cover page of Interpore Journal. It is an International Society of Porous Media Journal. This is quite an honor since the editors selected it independently. As […]
Innovative Light Technology Mitigates Contamination of Cereal Grains
By Victoria Birk Hill January 6, 2025
In a new study, researchers evaluated far-ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light as a safe way to alleviate fungal contamination of corn and wheat and found this technology to be effective. The study co-author Yi-Cheng Wang, assistant professor in FSHN at UIUC, and lead author Zhenhui Jin (UIUC), a recent graduate of FSHN’s doctoral program, tested the […]
Nyle Thermal Joins CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 22, 2024
Professors Jamal Yagoobi, Kedar Shete, and Mehdi Mortazavi along with Mana Masrouri, a CARD PhD student, visited Nyle Thermal located in Brewer/Bangor, Maine, on December 19, 2024. We are delighted to announce that Nyle Thermal is in the process of joining CARD as an affiliate member. Since 1977, Nyle Thermal has been manufacturing innovative, industrial […]