The Ohio State University College of Engineering

The momentum continues... Ohio State Undergraduate Engineering rises to 20th overall in U.S. News Education rankings, 12th among publics ? ? https://lnkd.in/g8SxCq8h “We are delighted that external perceptions and opinions of our programs are gradually aligning with our intentional focus on promoting engineering excellence at scale,” said College of Engineering Dean Ayanna Howard. “Our brilliant faculty, our dedicated staff members and our remarkable students, working together inclusively, enable us to elevate student access and success.” The Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering’s undergraduate program ranked 12th in the nation, the highest of Ohio State’s 11 departments or specialties that received enough votes for inclusion. Other Ohio State engineering undergraduate disciplines ranking among the nation’s best include materials (15), electrical (16), industrial/manufacturing (17), mechanical (17), aerospace (18), computer (19), civil (20), chemical (21), environmental (22) and biomedical (30). U.S. News and World Report?began evaluating undergraduate computer science programs in a separate category in 2020. In this year’s issue, Ohio State ranked 40th among 584 programs nationally,?and 25th in the artificial intelligence specialty category.

The Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program has reached it’s 10th birthday ??! So last Friday, IBE alumni, IBE corporate partners and IBE students gathered to celebrate. An afternoon professional development summit led to a celebration dinner at The Ohio Union.?The festivities also included the announcement of the new IBE x Deloitte Scholars & IBE x Sherwin-Williams Scholars. Thanks to generous sponsorship from both companies, 20 IBE students were awarded a $2,500 scholarship each! The College of Engineering and Fisher College of Business jointly offer the multidisciplinary undergraduate IBE honors program where engineering and business students take classes, attack real-world problems and network with industry leaders throughout their undergraduate experience. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gCupdRkf What we wrote 10 years ago when the program was launched: https://lnkd.in/gH_JrnR9 A more recent article about the launch of the Software Innovation track: https://lnkd.in/gmBcGuiK Alums presenting in photos below include George Valcarcel, Alisa Noll & Laura Sanderfer

The student-led Ohio Air Mobility Symposium is back for its 5th year, hosted by The Ohio State University Hope to see many of my colleagues from the industry in Columbus! Encourage folks to reach out to student leaders Alex and Ryan to learn more about this unique on-campus event, which beyond industry networking is focused on opportunities for student mentorship and talent attraction.

One day after graduating?summa cum laude?from Ohio State with her architecture degree, Fernanda Loyola Cardoso was on her way to Singapore, where she would research the sustainable practices and environmental output of the city’s?Gardens by the Bay. This experiential education was made possible by?the Director’s Travel Prize—a new prize that provides funding for Knowlton School at The Ohio State University students to complete their academic careers with a capstone travel experience. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gxgYUb2j

So very grateful to Minrui (Wally) Yang ('20 OSU CSE) of Meta for joining our last Dig In of 2024, where he shared about his day-to-day responsibilities as a Production Engineer, his path from Ohio State ?? Meta, and how he thinks about his future career there. During his fireside chat with Alex Gulko, we learned: ?? How a production engineer differs from a software engineer ?? The value of specialization on your resume ?? What makes working at Meta so unique ... and so, so much more. At the end of the evening, we asked Wally who helped him build his path. Hear his answer below ??

Corporate efforts to use artificial intelligence in a more socially responsible way have a surprising benefit – they can often improve product quality, according to an Ohio State resesarch survey of company officials around the country. Those surveyed ranked product quality as the area of their businesses that received the most value from implementing responsible AI management (RAIM) practices – even above more obvious choices, such as reducing regulatory and legal risk. That answer was surprising, said one of the leaders of the survey, Computer Science and Engineering Professor Dennis Hirsch, faculty director of The Ohio State University’s?Program on Data Governance. “We did not expect that the primary response for how AI governance would create value would be by improving product quality,” Hirsch said. “That’s very interesting and encouraging.” That result was one of several important findings from the survey, which were revealed in the report?Responsible AI Management: Evolving Practice, Growing Value. The report was produced by the Program on Data and Governance, which is part of Ohio State’s?Moritz College of Law?and?Translational Data Analytics Institute. https://lnkd.in/gnm4Wy7f

?? Buckeyes football legend and 2-time Super Bowl champion Malcolm Jenkins made an undeniable impact on the field. But his impact off the field through The Malcolm Jenkins Foundation has been even greater. Learn how he is paying forward at Ohio State: https://lnkd.in/gXTGJ5fn He's pictured below with scholarship recipients Mitch Arthur (left) and Donte Beck-King (right).

Computer Science & Engineering Prof. Suren Byna leads a team of researchers that received a $1.2M NSF grant to correct security deficiencies in self-describing file formats and libraries.? https://lnkd.in/g2vvDKds Self-describing data formats, such as Hierarchical Data Format, version 5 (HDF5) and Network Common Data Form?(netCDF), offer standardized, machine-independent and portable file formats that support flexible, effective organization of large amounts of data. These data formats include descriptive metadata critical for its portability. Several scientific domains—including climate science, accelerator science and particle physics—and industry applications use self-describing formats to store and analyze their data. There are thousands of tools and libraries around HDF5 and netCDF, forming a large ecosystem for facilitating visualization, analysis, and AI training and inference.

From The Columbus Dispatch: The City of Columbus and The Ohio State University are partnering with a venture development firm to nurture tech and biotech start-up space in Franklinton and on campus. https://lnkd.in/grun5Jjv

A 2023 paper authored by CSE Prof. Xia Ning,?"G2Retro?as a two-step graph generative models for retrosynthesis prediction," is featured in Nature Portfolio's special collection,?"Nobel Prize in Physics 2024." The Nobel Prize was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks” This collection highlights high-impact research, reviews, and opinion articles selected from all of Nature's participating journals, celebrating “the direct contributions by the awardees and the advances they have inspired.” The paper was co-authored by CSE Assoc. Prof. Huan Sun and PhD candidate Ziqi Chen, Pharmacy Prof. Jim Fuchs & Oluwatosin A.yinde, now an NCI research fellow. According to Ning, the team "introduced a new AI method for generating synthetic pathways for molecules—a step forward in using AI for Science, particularly in Chemistry, following the footsteps of the Nobel Prize awardees." Read their paper: https://lnkd.in/gm9fmnU4 View the full collection, edited by Yann Sweeney: https://lnkd.in/e8tYzS9V