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First play for the Syracuse offense against Louisville! 🏈🍊 by @engineeringsu

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Developing a manufacturing process might sound easy but first year chemical engineering students got to see where it gets tricky when you start making salad dressing.... 🍊 by @engineeringsu

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First year chemical engineering students learning to develop a manufacturing process with salad dressing production! #SyracuseU by @engineeringsu

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400+ Central New York high school students got to see where and engineering and computer science education could take them during our Engineering Exploration Day at #SyracuseU! by @engineeringsu

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Over 400 Central New York high school students got to see where an engineering and computer science education can take them during Engineering Exploration Day at Syracuse University! Thank you to everyone who attended! by @engineeringsu

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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Junzhe Zhang has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop artificial intelligence systems that make more dependable decisions when the data they learn from is incomplete or no longer matches real-world conditions.

The project aims to develop learning methods that account for both problems so that AI decision-making becomes more efficient, robust, generalizable and easier to interpret.

The work centers on reinforcement learning, a widely used approach to teaching AI systems to make a series of decisions. Its practical use is limited because it typically assumes that no hidden factors influenced how the data were collected and that the environment stays the same between training and deployment. Those assumptions rarely hold in real-world data.

“In fields like medicine or robotics, a bad decision has real consequences. This grant will help develop AI that not only performs well in the lab but also holds up when it meets the messy real world,” said Zhang.

#SyracuseU #STEM 🍊 by @engineeringsu

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Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Kun-Hao Yu has received a multiyear award from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to develop energy-efficient building panels that are installed with robotic assistance.

The project, “3D-Printed Siding and Human-Robot Collaboration for High-Performance Retrofits,” will support the development of a prefabricated, carbon-sequestering concrete siding system for home energy retrofits, while pairing the new material with a collaborative human-robot installation process. The goal is to improve building performance while making retrofits faster, more efficient, and safer for construction workers.

New York has an estimated 5.3 million single-family homes, more than half of which were built before 1960. The state also has a substantial stock of older multifamily buildings, creating significant opportunities for energy-efficiency retrofits. Yu’s project will test the 3D-printed panels in the lab, comparing how they perform against conventional wall assemblies. The team will also conduct field testing at the Building Envelope Systems Test (BEST) Facility, an on-campus testbed used to evaluate building performance in real-world conditions. Finally, they plan to complete a full-scale dormitory retrofit on Syracuse University’s South Campus.

“Our prior work showed that 3D-printable concrete can be designed to increase carbon uptake through both material formulation and the geometric freedom enabled by 3D printing,” explains Yu. “This NYSERDA project takes the next step by integrating that material into a complete building-envelope retrofit system and pairing it with robot-assisted installation. The goal is to demonstrate how these technologies can work together at building scale and help create more energy-efficient, lower-carbon retrofit solutions for New York.”

#SyracuseU 🍊 by @engineeringsu

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The best way to start the week! Thank you to all the high school students and familes who came to campus to learn about our programs! #BeOrange 🍊 by @engineeringsu

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First year mechanical engineers testing acceleration and braking on the shop work bench! #SyracuseU 🏁 by @engineeringsu

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Precision over power! First year mechanical engineering students looking to hit the mark with their mini-racecar designs. #FastAndStudious 🏁🏎 by @engineeringsu

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A project started during a school break has grown into a task management app used by more than 30,000 people worldwide.

Dongda Li, a Ph.D. student in computer and information science and engineering, is the creator and primary maintainer of Mindwtr, a free and open-source app built around the Getting Things Done method, often called GTD.

Li said he first encountered the GTD methodology around 2022 but spent years without finding an app that fit what he wanted: something that worked consistently across multiple devices and operating systems, functioned offline, kept data in users' hands and didn't require a subscription or mandatory cloud account. During winter break in December 2025, with some free time on his hands, he decided to build it himself.

"At first, it was really just a personal side project," Li said. He was building a tool for his own research, projects and personal tasks. Once he found it useful, he open-sourced it, thinking others might be looking for something similar.

The response came faster than he expected. People began discovering the project, installing it, starring it on GitHub, reporting bugs and contributing code. That pushed Li to expand Mindwtr beyond a developer-focused GitHub repository into a polished consumer app. He brought it to iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux, publishing it through the Apple App Store, Google Play and Microsoft Store. Along the way he had to learn skills beyond programming, including release engineering, app store review processes, cross-platform testing, code signing and user support.

Mindwtr has 2,000 stars on GitHub while remaining free and open source.

#SyracuseU #STEM 🍊 by @engineeringsu

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Thank you to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering alum Jeff Clark '17 for hosting a SpaceX information session in Link Hall! He also met with Citrus Racing and helped with on-campus interviews for current students. #ForeverOrange 🍊 by @engineeringsu

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