Determination and Lessons Learned - from Both a Wise Grandmother and ODU - Lead Engineering Grad to Promising Job

For three years, visitors to Dean Oktay Baysal's office have seen the friendly, familiar face of Marcus Woody, a mechanical engineering technology major who has been helping pay for his education through his job as a student worker.

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Dean Delivers Keynote Address at NASA Langley Program

Oktay Baysal, dean of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, gave the keynote address at a daylong session for middle school counselors, aimed at getting more students interested in engineering studies.

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ODU Business Gateway Chosen as Host Site for Regional Small Business Transportation Resource Center

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) has named Old Dominion's Business Gateway as the site of its South Atlantic region Small Business Transportation Resource Center (SBTRC).

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Students Design and Test Movement Algorithms for Mobile Robots

Modeling and simulation engineering students recently took a hands-on approach to one of their courses at Old Dominion University.

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Breaking Ground on Canopy House

At an enthusiastic ceremony Wednesday morning, Team Tidewater Virginia - the joint Old Dominion University/Hampton University student group competing in the Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon - broke ground on its 2013 entry, Canopy House.

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ECOnference '13, from Environmental Sustainability to Sea Level Rise

An internationally renowned urban revitalization eco-entrepreneur delivered the keynote address at ECOnference '13, Old Dominion's annual engineering, energy and environment conference.

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BCET Faculty Join Wave Energy Project to Boost STEM Education

The National Science Foundation is funding a project designed by a group of Old Dominion researchers to promote the study of ocean wave energy while also piquing the interest of young students in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Does Virginia's spaceport have the right stuff?

All his life, 65-year-old Craig Purdy has had his eye on the sky.

As a teenager in sleepy, rural Chincoteague in the early '60s, he watched "rocket shots" out of nearby Wallops, then a Naval air station on a marshy 6-square-mile slip of barrier island in Accomack County on the Eastern Shore. Small sounding rockets would soar into the upper atmosphere and beyond, hovering to study the winds, the sun, the moon or the elements before tumbling back to earth.

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Building Update

Progress to Date:

• Installation of floor and roof Epic decking
• Completion of SOD deck pours at Level 2 and roof

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Dean's Corner

Depending on who is being asked, the designation of dean, my role within ODU Engineering, can connote more than a few wide-ranging functions. While a dean is overwhelmingly a higher education figure, and his or her role relates its holder to a leadership position within a given department or college, deans hold numerous varied responsibilities. Responsibilities include approving faculty hiring, setting academic policies, overseeing the budget, fundraising, and other administrative tasks.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Selected as Speaker for Commissioning Ceremony

Charles F. Bolden, the 12th administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a retired Marine Corps major general, will deliver the address to newly commissioned officers of the Old Dominion Army ROTC and the Hampton Roads Naval ROTC on May 10.

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Successful launch for rocket Antares at NASA's Wallops

With a gut-rumbling growl, the Antares rocket vaulted from the launch pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Sunday afternoon, finally completing the test flight of a prototype booster designed to ship cargo to the International Space Station.

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Graduate Research Achievement Day Features Presentations and Poster Exhibit

Many of the brightest graduate student researchers at Old Dominion shared their work for the third annual Graduate Research Achievement Day (GRAD) on April 11. More than 60 students participated in this year's GRAD event, which was created to honor and celebrate the excellent research of ODU's graduate students.

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Expanded Research Focus for ODU Vision Lab Comes into View

For more than a decade, the Machine Vision and Computational Intelligence Laboratory (Vision Lab) has conducted complex, groundbreaking vision and video research.

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Area Students Visit Campus for Shipbuilding, Repair and Maritime Career Day

On a Monday in late March, the floor of the Ted Constant Convocation Center was filled with the enthusiastic sounds of more than 1,300 local middle and high school students.

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