Elif Asar Wins Sustainability Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill April 26, 2022
We are pleased to announce that PhD candidate M. Elif Asar Sarikaya was selected as the winner of WPI’s 14th Annual Sustainability Project Competition. She presented “Reducing Carbon Footprint of Energy-Intensive Industrial Drying by Novel Drying Methods” which was judged by regional sustainability experts, WPI faculty, and staff. This is her second time receiving this […]
Luis Luna Successfully Completes Preliminary Exam
By Victoria Birk Hill April 22, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Luis Luna, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign successfully completed the preliminary exam required for his Ph.D. degree. The title of the project was “Development and Evaluation of Spray Drying Nozzles to Improve the Stability and Particle Size Control of Powders.“ We are so proud of […]
Zahra Noori O’Connor Wins 1st Place at WPI Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill April 11, 2022
Worcester Polytechnic Institute PhD candidate, Zahra Noori O’Connor, won first place at Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) for the third time. GRIE is an annual event that gives WPI graduate students the chance to present their research to colleagues and professors from the WPI community and beyond, and receive feedback from the judges and attendees. […]
Mengqiao Yang Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation!
By Victoria Birk Hill March 30, 2022
Professor Jamal Yagoobi’s PhD student, Mengqiao Yang, successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Drying of Moist Porous Media with Electrohydrodynamics and Development of Novel Atomizer for Spray Drying” on March 25, 2022. Mengqiao will join PPG Industries in Pittsburgh as a Process Modeling Engineer this summer. Congratulations to Dr. Yang! We all wish him the best in […]
New Student Researchers Join CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill February 24, 2022
We are pleased to announce that we have six new student researchers working with us at CARD. They will be working closely with faculty on research that enhances industrial drying innovation, with an eye towards energy efficiency and sustainability . Their research projects will focus on novel drying methods like ultrasonic wave technology, removing moisture […]
Zahra Noori Awarded Internship at Mondelez
By Victoria Birk Hill January 19, 2022
Zahra Noori, WPI PhD student of Professor Jamal Yagoobi, has been awarded an internship by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work at Mondelez International from January 1 to April 30, 2022. Zahra will be working with the R&D teams in East Hanover, NJ during her internship. Zahra is earning her PhD in Mechanical and […]
Students Meet, Fall in Love, Marry
By Victoria Birk Hill January 12, 2022
We wanted to share this special story. Four years ago, one of our graduate students, Zahra Noori, started working in Prof. Jamal Yagoobi’s research group. There she met Nathaniel O’Connor. Both are PhD students in Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WPI. Over the years, their friendship blossomed into something more. The happy couple married in […]
Technical Papers Presented at IMECE 2021
By Victoria Birk Hill November 22, 2021
Two of our technical papers were presented at this year’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE). The first paper, Experimental Study of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Drying Process with Dielectrophoresis Mechanism, focuses on an energy efficient method to enhance the drying rate of porous materials. More details about the paper and its authors can […]
Fidele Abedi Receives 2nd Place in Student Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill June 1, 2021
Fidele Abedi took second place in the annual Food Science and Human Nutrition Department Graduate Student Poster symposium at the University of Illinois. Fidele’s Poster focused on modeling stress/strain impacts on bananas during drying. Fidele was one of six finalists in the oral presentation category. The aim of this competition is to showcase innovative research […]
Zahra Noori Earns Top Presenter in WPI Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill May 11, 2021
Congratulations Zahra Noori! She was selected as top presenter in Graduate Students of WPI’s 13th Annual Sustainability Project Competition for her project: “Experimental Study of Drying of Paper with Ultrasound Mechanism.” The projects competing in the competition each address a present societal need without compromising the ability to meet the needs of future generations. Projects […]