Occupancy detection project awarded additional $150K NSF grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded UH College of Engineering researchers an additional $150,000 grant to their previous $750,000 grant to develop a battery-operated version of their TruePODS™ product – a low-cost sensor capable of sensing the presence and number…
Professor Ooi’s team wins TRB’s ‘Best Paper Award’
Professor Phillip Ooi and his team's paper on "Long-Term Behavior Of A Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Integrated Bridge System in Hawaiʻi" was reviewed by the Transportation Research Board's Standing Committee on Geosynthetics and nominated for award consideration. Upon further review by…
Research team lays groundwork for nanoscale particle discoveries
Materials made from nanoscale particles, ranging in size from a few atoms up to less than one-percent of the width of a human hair, create opportunities to design new functional materials having unique responses to external stimuli, such as light,…