The development of an "optically pumped" laser, made of germanium tin grown on silicon substrates, could lead to faster micro-processing of electronic devices and at a much lower cost.

College of Engineering faculty and students earned more than a dozen awards at the recent annual conference of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers in Orlando, Florida.

Adedoyin Abe and Mahyar Afshar-Mohajer earned awards for their poster presentations at the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference in Nashville in late May.

W.E. Manning Memorial Scholarships provide $2,000 each to seven graduate and undergraduate students in online degree programs.

The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers has awarded Haitao Liao the title of Fellow during a presentation at the IISE international conference in Orlando May 18-21.

Oluwatobi ''Tobi'' Olorunsola, a doctoral student of the University of Arkansas, has been awarded a 2019 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Kim LaScola Needy, dean of the Graduate School and International Education and professor of industrial engineering, has been honored twice for her contributions to the profession of industrial engineering.

Stacy Goad Williams was named Professional of the Year by the Arkansas Chapter of the association.

Using multiphoton microscopy, Kyle Quinn and his research team identified how cell metabolism changes during the healing process of chronic wounds. Their work could lead to new approaches for diagnosing and monitoring chronic skin wounds.

The number of May graduates from Global Campus online programs climbed in the past five years, and the trend should continue.