Research @ UVA Engineering

Engineering for a Sustainable Future

Engineering a better future will require the best work of researchers collaborating along the spectrum from the tiniest building blocks of materials through the complex workings of entire societal systems. We work at the micro- and nano-scale in fields like heat transfer, catalysis and 2-D materials to identify fundamental properties of matter. Our goal is not simply to conduct research, but to pursue research with positive global impact.

Research Area

Optics, Photonics and Sensing Energy, Transportation and the Environment Materials and Nanotechnology 
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  • UVA Students Earn Michael Freilich Visualization Award

    UVA civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. students demonstrate the power of data visualization.

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  • Influential Publisher Awards Best Paper Honors to Geise Lab’s Research on Ion-Exchange Membranes

    Chemical engineering Ph.D. student Sean Bannon and his advisor Geoffrey Geise have won a Best Paper Award from the American Chemical Society journal ACS ES&T Engineering.

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  • Fueling the Next Wave of Hypersonic Innovations: UVA’s New Aerospace Engineering Faculty

    Newly appointed faculty members will add even more strength and momentum to mechanical and aerospace engineering advancements as they assimilate into the School’s accomplished hypersonic research team

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  • Xinfeng Gao Named 2024 AIAA Associate Fellow

    Gao's groundbreaking work in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and extensive industry collaborations have propelled aerospace technology forward.

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  • Venkat Lakshmi Adds Appointment as Fellow of American Society of Agronomy to Honors in the Hydrology Field

    UVA civil engineering professor Venkat Lakshmi has earned the highest recognition bestowed by the American Society of Agronomy.

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  • UVA Engineer Innovates a Liquid Safety Cushioning Technology

    A Breakthrough in Material Design Will Help Football Players, Car Occupants and Hospital Patients

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  • Newer Tunabot Models Are Faster and Bigger — and May One Day Outperform Fish

    An accomplished UVA postdoctoral researcher knows the power of industry-academia collaborations for underwater vehicle design and development.

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  • UVA-Led Discovery Challenges 30-Year-Old Dogma in Associative Polymers Research

    A new study appears to challenge a long-held understanding of how the widely used materials function at the molecular level.

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  • UVA Program Focused on Civil and Environmental Engineering for the Future of Our Society

    After a few months as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, we asked Devin Harris what’s ahead for his department and field.

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  • Maximizing Excitons as Energy Carriers

    Kyusang Lee has received a prestigious award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to investigate promising new semiconductor material systems.

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  • UVA Engineering–Darden Team Wins $30,000 for Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Business Plan

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