Engineering Momentum Magazine

Spring 2021 issue

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Cover Story

Racial justice in engineering

The road ahead for McKelvey Engineering.

From the dean

The long road ahead

After numerous events last year that brought racial injustice to the forefront, there arose a demand that the time for true action has arrived.

Faculty Feature

Sensors, sensors everywhere

While some engineers work to develop new technologies, others work to find applications of existing technology. That is what has brought Neal Patwari success in his work, both in academia and in industry.

Student Feature

Virtual becomes reality

How faculty, staff and students adapted to remote instruction without losing momentum.

Alumni Feature

In the cards

Libby Allman is an advocate for recruiting more women into the areas of engineering in which they are underrepresented — and keeping them there.

Young Alumni

Frank Bergh

Frank Bergh takes electricity to remote regions of the world, changing the lives of those getting electricity for the first time.

Last Word

Interminable

As engineers, we are tasked with solving problems. We don’t accept things as they are, we make them better.

Special Feature

A new chapter

After 20 years of and leading environmental engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering into an international powerhouse for aerosols, air quality and environmental research, Pratim Biswas left Washington University in St. Louis to become the dean of the University of Miami College of Engineering in January 2021.

Special Feature

The McKelvey Challenge continues

Three alumni share what motivated them to give toward the McKelvey Challenge, which triggers matching funds that combine with the gifts into a powerful investment in WashU Engineering.

School News

Our essential staff member: Megan Flake

While Megan Flake has been managing labs in the school since 2007, she never expected to be managing labs during a global pandemic.

A look inside James M. McKelvey, Sr. Hall

The new home of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering

A view of McKelvey Hall from the west. An aluminum and glass curtain wall is used to flood the building with natural light.

Bytes, the café on the first floor, will serve Starbucks products, among other items. The café has views of the Engineering Quad and Tisch Park to the west.

The collaboration area on the first floor near the main entry. On the south wall are white decorative metal panels, and a portion of the video display wall can be seen.

A view of McKelvey Hall from the east, along Skinker Boulevard.

McKelvey Hall

“The open concept that permeates the design of McKelvey Hall is intended to foster greater interactions and collaborations. It will help our faculty and students create connections both within and outside of engineering and contribute to broadening the impact that data and computing are having on science and society.”

— Roch Guérin, Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science and Department Chair

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