On any given day, College of Engineering faculty, students and alumni contribute research through peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly books and book chapters. Learn more about those contributions in this month’s Research Roundup. To have your work considered for a future roundup, submit your research here.

Civil, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Anurag Pande, Puneet Agarwal and Claire Swidan

Civil and environmental engineering professor Anurag Pande and manufacturing engineering professor Puneet Agarwal recently co-authored the paper “Improving Walkability Assessment Through AI-Based Street-Level Audits,” which was recommended for presentation at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2027 Annual Meeting. The research explores how artificial intelligence can be used to improve walkability assessments using street-level audits. The paper’s lead author was student Claire Swidan. The initial work was funded by the Noyce School of Applied Computing, and Agarwal and Pande have since received external funding to continue the research in collaboration with urban planning colleagues at San Diego State University. 

April Thibodeau

Civil engineering master’s student April Thibodeau, along with co-authors Ryan K. Walter, Piero L.F. Mazzini, Thomas P. Connolly, Christopher A. Edwards and Ian Robbins, published a new study in Continental Shelf Research titled “The role of local winds and a semi-persistent coastal front on the diurnal heat budget in an upwelling bay.” Using  nearly two years of data from San Luis Obispo Bay, the study shows how daily winds and a persistent temperature front work together to drive heating and cooling patterns in coastal bays, offering new insight into these marine ecosystems.

Electrical Engineering

Taufik

Electrical engineering professor Taufik was an international keynote speaker at the International Symposium on the Synergy of Physics and Technology, held Oct. 3. He represented U.S. universities and presented “Hybrid AC/DC House for Future Net Zero Energy Homes: Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges,” an overview of his ongoing research on technology designed to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s Zero Energy Ready Home program.