College of Engineering

To maintain global leadership in nanotechnology and fully realize its benefits to the economy and national security, the United States must act swiftly to renew and expand its investments, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report, titled Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, was written by a committee chaired by LSU College of Engineering Dean and Bert S. Turner Chair Vicki Colvin.

LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Associate Professor Ipsita Gupta recently received a $261,000 research grant from Idaho National Laboratory (INL)/Battelle Energy Alliance and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Geothermal Technologies Office. The project aims to investigate the potential for critical minerals, specifically lithium, in produced waters from oil and gas fields within Louisiana's Smackover Formation.

As part of their senior capstone project, a team of LSU engineering students developed MuniciPal, a mobile and web-based application designed to simplify and digitize the entire public works reporting process.