Patents mark year of breakthroughs at the College of Engineering

The following is an excerpt. Read the full article: 2024 Patent Luncheon Marks a Year of Engineering Breakthroughs, College of Engineering News, Mar. 12, 2024.

Every year, leaders from Tech Launch Arizona and the College of Engineering gather to award medallions to the researchers and professors recently granted patents for inventions that better the human condition.

Attendees at this year’s Feb. 28 event celebrated Engineering’s inventors for improving health care and accelerating computing, among other achievements.

“Thank you for being engaged with us,” Doug Hockstad, assistant vice president of Tech Launch Arizona, the University of Arizona’s commercialization arm, told the engineers. “Getting a patent issued is a national acknowledgment of the importance of an invention,” he said, adding that college faculty were involved in over 20% of the university’s patents for the past year.

The following is a full list of Engineering faculty members who received medallions.

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Peiwen Li – Heat Recovery Apparatus, System and Method

Biomedical Engineering

Marvin Slepian – Systems and Methods for Analyzing Platelet Function; Methods for Determining Cell Stiffness; and Breathing Signatures in Respiratory Disease

Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Dominic Gervasio (retired) – A System for Leaching Metal and Storing Energy

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Salim Hariri – SeVA: Senior’s Virtual Assistant

Ivan Djordjevic – Probabilistically Coded Fronthaul Networks

Wolfgang Fink – Automated Network-On-Chip Design

Materials Science and Engineering

Pierre Deymier – Sound System With Fermionic Quantum-Like Behavior

Douglas Loy – Bridged Polysilsesquioxane Based Sunscreens

Systems and Industrial Engineering

Mohammed Shafae – Sensor Signal Prediction at Unreported Frequencies

Young-Jun Son (former faculty member) – Simulation-Based Resource and Layout Optimization