2024-06-06 Ali Ghadimzadeh Alamdari has received ASNT’s Student Travel Grant to attend the ASNT Research Symposium 2024 in Pittsburgh, PA to present 2 papers. Congratulations Ali!
2024-06-06 Pedram Bazrafshan has received ASNT’s Student Travel Grant to attend the ASNT Research Symposium 2024 in Pittsburgh, PA to present 2 papers. Congratulations Pedram!
2024-05-30: Ali Ghadimzadeh Alamdari successfully passed his PhD Candidacy Exam. Congratulations Ali!
2024-05-29: Two Awards from ASNT! 1) Pedram Bazrafshan and Dr. Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou received ASNT Fellowship for their proposal titled “AI-Based Generation and Detection of Fake NDE Data: A Step Toward Enhancing Resilience Against Cybersecurity Attacks.” 2) Drs. Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou and Ivan Bartoli received ASNT Faculty Grant
2024-04-25 Great news to share: Pedram Bazrafshan has been selected by the American Society for Civil Engineers as the 2024 recipient of O. H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering. Congratulations Pedram on this magnificent achievement!
2024-03-27 Pedram Bazrafshan’s presentation titled “An entropy-based probabilistic model for acoustic emission RA-value-average frequency data” was selected the 3rd place in the best student paper competition of the SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation conference, Long Beach, CA. Congratulations Pedram!
2024-03-13 Pedram Bazrafshan received the George Hill, Jr. Endowed Fellowship. The George Hill, Jr. Endowed Fellowship fund is used to provide a stipend and/or tuition assistance to a new doctoral student who will be partially supported by a research or teaching assistantship in the College of Engineering. Recipients have demonstrated excellence in their undergraduate and graduate careers and the potential to achieve academic excellence at the PhD level. Congratulations Pedram!
2024-02-15 Cover paper alert! Our paper titled “A graph-based method for quantifying crack patterns on reinforced concrete shear walls” was selected as the cover paper of the Special Issue of the journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering: Computational Concrete. This paper was first accepted on April 19, 2023. Congratulations Pedram!
2024-01-31 Professors Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou, Miguel Pando, Ivan Bartoli, Simi Hoque, and Nick Jushchyshyn received Drexel College of Engineering Carleone Award for their proposal titled “AI-based Digital Twins for Underground Excavation and Development” was selected for Drexel College of Engineering Carleone Award.” https://drexel.edu/engineering/news-events/news/archive/2024/January/2024-carleone-faculty-award-recipients/
2024-01-26 Ali Ghadimzadeh Alamdari has received SPIE’s travel grant to attend SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2024 in Long Beach, CA to present 3 conference papers. Congratulations Ali!
2023-11-20 Our paper titled “A multi-scale robotic approach for precise crack measurement in concrete structures” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Automation in Construction https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105215, Great job Ali!
2023-09-07: Pedram Bazrafshan successfully passed his PhD Candidacy Exam. Congratulations Pedram!
2023-08-28: Pedram Bazrafshan received GSA travel grant to present his paper titled “A robotic-based framework for quantifying surface cracks of concrete shear walls” at the 14th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), September 12-14, 2023, at Stanford University, CA
2023-06-14: Drexel Lunabotics was placed 18 out of 49 teams competing nationally in NASA Lunabotics competition
2023-06-12: Dr. Arvin appeared on NBC Nightly News and Fox-29 in interviews related to I-95 bridge collapse.
2023-05-05: Ali Ghadimzadeh Alamdari was awarded Harry Brown, Jr. Fellowship. Congratulations Ali!
2023-04-27: Pedram Bazrafshan received the Provost’s Best In-Person Presentation at 2023 Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars Conference. Congratulations Pedram!
2023-03-24: Our paper entitled “A graph-based method for quantifying crack patterns on reinforced concrete shear walls” was accepted for publication in the journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. Congratulations Pedram!
2023-03-12: Our research group is attending SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2023 conference in Long Beach, CA with two oral presentations:
1) “A Robotic Approach for Crack Detection through the
Integration of Cameras and LiDARs”, Ali Ghadimzadeh Alamdari and Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou
2) “A virtual-reality framework for graph-based damage evaluation of reinforced concrete structures”, Pedram Bazrafshan and Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou
2023-03-03: Mr. Pedram Bazrafshan has been the recipient of Chuck Pennoni Civil Engineering Fellowship. Congratulations Pedram!