30,000 + students enrolled*
7 Transdisciplinary schools
490 faculty across all ranks
25+ undergraduate programs
#11 women as tenure/ tenure-track faculty
50+ graduate programs
$145M research expenditures
85 Members of the National Academies and distinguished societies
2 campuses + online
Eleven faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Awards in 2022. The awards total an estimated $6.3 million to fund projects over the next five years. Earning the NSF CAREER Award is a hallmark achievement for these early-career faculty members who have each developed a comprehensive plan to conduct impactful research and deliver a rich educational experience to their students. To date, 33 Fulton Schools faculty members have earned NSF CAREER Awards in the past three years.
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Student entrepreneurs from universities around the world won more than $300,000 to advance their hard tech startups at the 2022 ASU Innovation Open. Kyle Squires, ASU’s vice provost of engineering, computing and technology and the dean of the Fulton Schools, views entrepreneurship as a vitally important complement to students’ education as they train to become the engineering and technology leaders of the future.
Abhinav Acharya
Kumar Ankit Kenan Song Anamitra Pal
Deliang Fan
Arul Mozhy Varman
Ruoyu “Fish” Wang
Jia Zou
Xiaojun Tian
Christian Hoover Troy McDaniel
The innovative, high-achieving students who make up the Luminosity Lab at Arizona State University are winning global awards for designing, developing and deploying novel solutions to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Marty Vanderploeg, chief executive officer of the software technology company Workiva, has donated $15 million to endow the Vanderploeg Luminosity Scholars Program to address unmet financial need and give students time to contribute to the lab’s work. Through its new home in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, the Luminosity Lab will expand its research and development partnerships with companies and organizations around the world.
...we’re looking for curious minds and those interested in positively impacting society.
Mark Naufel, executive director of the ASU Luminosity LabASU’s Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence and Robot Teaming (CHART) constructed the GHOST Lab to research coordinating teams of humans, robots and AI, and explore challenges these teams may confront during space exploration. The project is led by Nancy Cooke, a professor of human systems engineering at the Polytechnic School and the director of CHART. A cognitive psychologist by training, Cooke has spent years working to understand human teamwork and decision-making. She now applies this expertise to human-technology teams, including ones collaborating on space missions. Cooke has received funding from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, as well as an Air Force Office of Scientific Research seedling grant to conduct research associated with Space Force.
Hamid Marvi and Yezhou Yang have the opportunity to expand their work beyond the lab as the newest Fulton Entrepreneurial Professors. The twoyear, sabbatical-like professorship awards ASU engineering faculty the equivalent of $200,000 in time and resources to accelerate their nascent ventures toward successful commercialization.
Hamid Marvi’s startup, MagStee Medicals, focuses on magnetic needle steering for minimally invasive surgical and treatment applications.
Yezhou Yang’s startup, ARGOS Vision, incorporates artificial intelligence and computer vision for a lowcost, solar-powered traffic monitoring solution.
Microelectronics, typically made from semiconductor materials, enable nearly every electronic system we use today, from pacemakers, voting machines and cars to airplanes, missiles and supercomputers. Because of their complex supply chain, they also face many security challenges. To help address these issues domestically, and create a robust, highly skilled workforce, Associate Professor Michel Kinsy has established the Secure, Trusted, and Assured Microelectronics (STAM) Center at ASU.
#6 Bachelor’s degrees awarded to underrepresented minorities
When Jayashree Adivarahan realized engineering could help solve critical global issues — including access to clean water, waste management and public health — she knew she needed to be part of the solution and decided to pursue it as a career. Adivarahan’s passion and dedication was recognized by computational software company Cadence Design Systems, honoring her as one of only 22 women studying engineering from across the country with the Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship.
105 National Hispanic Scholars
#9 Online engineering graduate programs for veterans
FURI has allowed me to connect with many faculty members and learn from them. I have come to the realization that I want to be someone that promotes the holistic development of minorities.
184 National Merit Scholars
#12 Online engineering graduate programs
As a biomedical engineering student, I always wanted to apply my knowledge and skills to develop solutions for people with disabilities or neurological disorders like stroke.
Nathan Fonseca, Mechanical engineering systems
Jayashree Adivarahan, Electrical engineering
Emmanuella Tagoe, Biomedical engineering
The New Economy Initiative is a forwardthinking investment by the state of Arizona to drive economic growth and resiliency through engineering and technology education and research. Key areas for growth include new materials and energy devices, advanced manufacturing technologies, devices and strategies to improve human performance and address heat-related challenges in urban centers, and innovative solutions for sensing and wireless communications, among other areas.
The New Economy Initiative supports the development of five Science and Technology Centers (STCs) at ASU that will position Arizona for national and global leadership in the new economy. STCs nurture collaboration with local industry and lay the foundation for Arizona to compete for nationally and internationally significant economic development opportunities that create high-paying jobs, train the workforce and spur entrepreneurial development.
ASU and the Fulton Schools of Engineering are working with key industry partners to understand emerging technological and market needs. Through the STCs, ASU is providing the expertise, facilities and infrastructure to fuel research innovation, workforce development and futureforward technologies to drive sustained economic growth in Arizona.
ASU’s record of innovation and leadership in engineering education puts us at the center of a national effort to accelerate advanced manufacturing and to substantially improve competitiveness and agile innovation for a myriad of critical industries.
– Kyle Squires, ASU vice provost for engineering, computing and technology and dean of the Fulton Schools of Engineering
ASU has launched five Science and Technology Centers to improve Arizona’s competitiveness in emerging hightech sectors. Those STCs are:
• Advanced Materials, Processes and Energy Devices (AMPED)
• Manufacturing, Automation and Data Engineering (MADE)
• Advanced Communications Technologies (ACT)
• Extreme Environments (EXTREME)
• Performance Engineering and Research for Optimizing Response Mechanisms (PERFORM)
All five STCs regularly solicit proposals for research and development projects.