CSET is committed to providing the best education to students by engaging them in faculty-mentored research and/or internship opportunities with business and industry partners, boosting their intellectual curiosity and inspiring them to imagine and create a better world. Our end goal is to increase America's talent pool in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and enable our faculty to remain engaged in research and innovation that leads to regional economic development.
Through the Water Resources Center, we will develop better water quality and water management techniques and better understand the environmental impacts of development. Through the Department of Civil Engineering, we will understand how multiple waste streams affect our water systems. At our Field Station, we will gain a better understanding of invasive species propagation, along with the hydrology of ground water in times of drought and flood. We will work on understanding the balance between the burden on our agricultural land to produce more nutritional crops and the large demand for water by industrial and municipal developments.
State-of-the-art data collection and analysis equipment will not only improve the quality of our research, but it will also give students hands-on experiences in the classroom that will position them to achieve better solutions.
With your partnership, the Biological Imaging Center will expand the visualization tools needed for enhanced research by faculty and students in several areas.
We will be better able to study how disease conditions are affected by nutrition changes, environmental factors and food safety concerns. It will be possible to monitor heavy metal concentrations and possibly to develop plant remediation protocols. Studies of carcinogens and disease-carrying organisms will be more completely studied with analytical instruments that investigate at the sub-cellular level. Medical isotopes produced on campus will enhance the understanding of living systems, from plants to humans.
The study of renewable energy and the use of alternative fuels in transportation systems will help students be prepared to manage the world's ever-changing fuel resources.
The use of biofuels in the form of cellulose or animal waste will help relieve the demand on traditional fuel sources. Through curricula and research that are closely guided by our faculty and with the use of enhanced laboratory simulations, students will be ready to address the challenges of engineering in a world of population growth and climate change. Green construction within a research model of faculty, industry and student collaboration will help the built environment to wisely use and reuse our resources.
Whether for systems modeling, information security or information storage, high-performance computing is fundamental to our research and study.
Robust computing is irreplaceable when studying many applied systems, including vibration in engine performance, modeling and algorithms in biological systems, and simulations and modeling in engineering and technology. In electrical engineering the use of Model-based Performance Control (MPC) methods requires high-performance computing to understand multi-vehicle control problems.
Expanding research in science, engineering and technology by inviting industry experts to campus will enhance faculty expertise and thus opportunities for students. It will also bring external perspectives in the multiple areas of the College.
During their collaborations over several semesters, these industry experts will not only help enhance the classroom experience but also introduce real-world challenges that need real-world solutions These initiatives can also be a vehicle for creating endowed faculty positions that would encourage the exchange of faculty with other institutions or give faculty release time and other resources to research problems and their solutions.
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