Dayton Engineer

University of Dayton engineering students, Henry Doheny, Riley Zelczak and Liz Alexander, spent the last several months researching telehealth to improve healthcare provider-patient interaction through the Telehealth Clinical Internship Program.

After two years of research, and thanks to a sabbatical, University of Dayton researchers, Qiwen Zhan and Andy Chong, became the first to create a new “state of light."

Software developed by a University of Dayton Research Institute scientist to quickly diagnose COVID-19 has been exclusively licensed by Greenville, South Carolina, software development company Blue Eye Soft. The technology, which detected the presence of the COVID-19 disease on a dataset of chest X-rays in seconds with 98 percent accuracy, was adapted from existing medical diagnostic software in a matter of hours, then licensed in less than three days.

Ashley Martin, a Carroll High School student, set ambitious goals for her science fair project and reached out to the University of Dayton’s Vijay Asari and his Vision Lab team to help achieve them.

Salahaldin Alshatshati spent two semesters participating in an ETHOS Dayton immersion, where he stepped away from traditional academic study and engaged in community projects with non-profit organizations.

Engineers Week brings the entire UD community together to celebrate engineering.

My mother met Mother Teresa and often spoke of her. My brothers and I were reminded to never forget the less fortunate. During my time at UD, I became unsettled and started to question if I was being called to serve as Mother Teresa did but with an engineering degree.