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Engineering solutions for the world's cold regions and beyond

Alaska Center for Energy & Power energy analyst Markus Mager conducts fieldwork in support of the Pilgrim Hot Springs Geothermal Resource Assessment Project.

Photo courtesy of ACEP.

Alaska Hydrokinetic Research Center research team drills through the ice on the Tanana River.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Faculty in the Advanced Materials Group demonstrate use of the laser deposition system and explain microfabrication processes to undergraduate students.

Photo by K. Hansen.

Researchers in the Alaska University Transportation Center check the temperature of a hot mix asphalt, part of a project to test which mixtures perform best in Alaska’s different regions.

Photo courtesy of Jeny Liu.

Civil Engineering graduate student Jake Horazdovsky collects data on how bridge supports perform under seismic stress in seasonally frozen ground, part of an AUTC research project.

Photo courtesy of AUTC.

Members of the UA Society of Automobile Engineers Zero Emissions team took first place in the 2012 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge Zero Emissions Category. Co-captain Isaac Thompson, electrical engineering senior in the College of Engineering and Mines, will travel with the winning sled to Greenland as part of an NSF-funded research project.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

INE supports the Society of Automobile Engineers, UA Student Chapter, in competing in the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge. Students re-engineer a stock snowmobile to reduce emissions and noise and increase fuel efficiency.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Computer scientist Jon Genetti with an image of the aurora he created for the space show "Cosmic Collisions" at the Hayden Planetarium in New York.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Computer Scientist Orion Lawlor examines fractal patterns in the Visualization Laboratory.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Computer Scientists Jon Genetti (l) and Orion Lawlor (r) discuss images of Fairbanks in the Visualization Laboratory.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Large ice wedges in Yedoma (Late Pleistocene syngenetic permafrost), northern part of the Seward Peninsula. INE researchers Yuri Shur and Mikhail Kanevskiy study how such frozen ground reacts to infrastructure such as roads and climate change.

Photo by M. Kanevskiy.

The Mineral Industry Research Laboratory conducts research in ultra-clean processing. Here student researchers prepare coal dust samples for testing.

Photo courtesy of R. Ganguli.

Dr. Bandopadhyay accepting the 2011 Percy N. Nicholls Award from SME Coal & Energy Division Chair, Michael A. Trevits.

Photo courtesy of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.

Old mining equipment stands near the portal to the Silver Fox Mine, about 15 miles north of Fairbanks. The site, donated to UAF’s College of Engineering and Mines, serves as a learning and research site for mining engineering students and faculty.

UAF photo by T. Paris.

PDL graduate student David Kumar adjusts a pressure regulator to maintain constant pressure inside a PVT cell. Kumar studied low-salinity brine flooding as a technique to enhance oil recovery.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Undergraduate Kyle Emery (foreground) works with ACEP researchers Jack Schmid (background, left) and Paul Duvoy (right) collecting data on current and sediments, part of a larger study to explore in-river hydrokinetic applications.

Photo by K. Hansen.

Mat Wooller (Alaska Stable Isotope Facility), Jim Shobe (PhD student) and Terry Smith (North Pole high school student intern) (left to right) test a new vibra-coring system through a hole in lake ice to sample long cores of sediment beneath a thaw lake near UAF.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Alaska Stable Isotope Facility staff member Norma Haubenstock works on a process to extract fatty acids to track individual compounds through food webs and ecosystems.

UAF photo by T. Paris.

WERC’s Sveta Berezovskaya Stuefer annually performs fieldwork under extremely cold temperatures; her focus is snow depth and how snowmelt contributes to hydrology on Alaska’s North Slope.

Photo by C. Hiemstra, Colorado State University.

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May

IP Development for Engineers

A recent presentation by OIPC’s Adam Krynicki and Dan White outlined for engineering faculty the process of inventing and commercializing technology at UAF.

The presentation slides offer a summary of this process and contact information for staff at the Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization.

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Apr

NSF award helps researcher prepare Alaska grown engineers of tomorrow

Research isn’t always about creating new models or making landmark discoveries. It can also be about preparing for the future of a discipline by supporting students who will someday take over (more…)

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Apr

“Data in disguise” – Aerial photography as an information source for glaciological changes

SCIENCE magazine (VOL 335, pg 1551) celebrated the launch of a new project led by INE’s Matt Nolan. “Data Rescue of the Austin Post Air Photo Collection” will digitalize, preserve, and extend scientific access to a collection of large-format photographs that document the size and topography of glaciers in Alaska, Canada, and Washington from 1960 to 1995. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Apr

AUTC researchers central in Transportation Asset Management efforts in Alaska

Geotechnical Assets—things like rock and soil slopes, bridge foundations, shore protection, embankments, retaining walls, and others structures literally touch or impact every other physical asset within Alaska’s transportation system. (more…)

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Nov

Data Management Plans Required by NSF

Proposal submissions to National Science Foundation must include a Data Management Plan as of Jan. 18, 2011. This document, designed to facilitate dissemination and sharing of research results, is a supplementary document describing how the proposal will conform to NSF policy on the dissemination and sharing of research results. It is required in addition to other proposal documents and is not part of the 15-page Project Description.

Per NSF policy, (more…)