UH engineering student creates Minecraft graduation
Recognizing the disappointment of her fellow graduates who wouldn't get to experience commencement exercises this year prompted electrical engineering masters student Brianne Tengan to do something. She built a virtual composite of the UH campus in Minecraft -- a game…
UH spin-off start-up awarded $750K NSF grant for smart-building occupancy detection technology
The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers a $750,000 grant to develop a low-cost sensor capable of detecting human presence and monitoring occupants for energy-savings and smart-building applications. The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase…
UH joins largest electromagnetic research group
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to join their highly successful Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility (CEMC). This joint venture with UH, the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Houston makes CEMC one…
Water filtering technology would use 1000-times less energy than conventional methods (UH News)
Bright-field microscopy image of the microfluidic channels near the outlets. The CO2 channels are kept at 136kPa whereas the air channels are left open to the atmosphere. According to the World Health Organization, 1.8 billion people worldwide use a source…