College of Engineering Research Is
Making the World a Safer Place to Live

Ever since the events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, people have had a new outlook on travel, public gatherings, shopping and innumerable other aspects of life. With this shift in perception, CoE researchers are noticing that their work has applications they previously had not considered, primarily in the areas of security and reliability. 

A Finely Tuned Instrument

Getting a spacecraft into orbit around Mercury has created some astronomical problems that threaten the craft, its instrumentation and, consequently, the entire exploratory mission. CoE scientists are creating new technologies that are extremely lightweight yet powerful enough to extract vast amounts of information and durable enough to withstand the harshest of environments.

3-D Position-Sensitive Spectrometers

Gamma-ray spectroscopy -- the measurement of the wavelengths and energies of gamma rays -- has come a long way. Whereas it was once a mere curiosity, it has become a science with several practical and important applications in medical imaging and in matters of security.