Our faculty, alumni, and partners contribute to a broad range of exciting discoveries and research. Our mission is to advance research and innovation to discover new knowledge. The spotlights below are a few examples of our research collaborations, TEDx style talks, and video spotlights that showcase innovation and excellence. UMBC and COEIT is a diverse and inclusive environment where we produce graduates who are highly valued and in demand, poised to deliver solutions to global challenges and responsive to the region and beyond.
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UMBC News Research Spotlights
UMBC expands its next-generation tech analytics research with Phase II of the Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics
UMBC’s Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA) team will advance its work in investigating data analytics using next-generation computing hardware with the launch of the next phase of the multi-institutional research collaboration.
UMBC is partnering with Rutgers University, the University of Miami, and Arizona State University to deploy CARTA Phase II, a five-year initiative that explores data analytics research to develop new accelerated and real-time approaches to address advanced technology integration in industries such as health care, finance, and security.
UMBC manufacturing research center gets boost from new partnership with U.S. Army
The Center for Research in Emergent Manufacturing (CREM), which started as the ambitious idea of two UMBC researchers in 2019, is launching a major new project with the U.S. Army and other partners this year. UMBC has received an initial amount of more than $3 million to fund the first year of the project, which will investigate ways to digitize the army’s supply chain.
UMBC joins national effort to improve pathways for women of color in tech
UMBC has joined dozens of other founding institutions at the kick-off meeting of a newly launched initiative to ensure sustained resources and opportunities in tech fields for women of color. The Action Collaborative on Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech, is organized by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and guided by the findings and recommendations detailed in a 2022 National Academies report. According to the report, while women of color make up a substantial and growing percentage of the female population in the United States, they earn a small percentage of computing degrees, and remain significantly underrepresented in the tech workforce.
UMBC’s Vandana Janeja aims to boost high-performance computing know-how to tackle environmental science challenges with a $1 million NSF grant
Vandana Janeja, a professor of information systems at UMBC, was recently awarded a nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will help further that mission. The grant is part of a larger NSF collaborative award with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES).
UMBC teams with the Navy and the University of Arizona to develop new capabilities for hypersonic flight
Ankit Goel, assistant professor of mechanical engineering leads a team of researchers who will research the challenges of hypersonic flight, from the stresses on materials to struggle to control the aircraft. Goel recently received more than $850,000 in funding from the Office of Naval Research to further the investigations. Over the next three years he will partner with Kyle Hanquist at the University of Arizona and researchers from the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) to develop improved engine control strategies and assess their performance in ground experiments conducted at the NAWC facility at China Lake, California.
UMBC to co-lead new Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative with $2.3M grant
A new program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has funded Urban Integrated Field Laboratories in three American cities (including Baltimore) to generate resilience-enhancing solutions to urban climate challenges in collaboration with community organizations. The Baltimore-centered consortium, named the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC), will receive $24.5 million through the program. UMBC will receive $2.3 million of this larger grant. Leading UMBC’s work on the project is Claire Welty, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE).
GRIT-X is a series of presentations to celebrate the passion and achievements of UMBC’s alumni, faculty and graduates students, with invited speakers conveying compelling aspects of UMBC’s impact in the areas of research, scholarship and creative achievement.
2023
Learn more about GRIT-X 2023, past speakers, and their research. Watch all the GRIT-X 2023 presentations [YouTube video].
[Back for its seventh year, GRIT-X returned to the Fine Arts Recital Hall during Homecoming 2023 with presentations from faculty and accomplished alumni addressing some of the most pressing issues facing society now and throughout history, and how UMBC scholars are working to build a better tomorrow.
“The goal of GRIT-X is to provide a sneak peek behind the scenes of some of the exciting and impactful research and creative achievement initiatives across our campus community,” says Karl V. Steiner, UMBC’s vice president of research and creative achievement. “[GRIT-X] takes you around the whole campus and beyond.”
GRIT-X 2023: Zhensen Huang ’00, ’04, information systems: “Create Possibility – on Campus and in Business”
GRIT-X 2023: Cynthia Matuszek, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering: “Talking to Robots – The Role of Language in Human-Robot Interaction”
GRIT-X 2023: Carlos Romero Talamás, associate professor of mechanical engineering: “The Fusion Energy Solution – Why Engineering Simplicity Matters”