FACULTY AND RESEARCH

Pali Singh and Student

In Villanova’s College of Engineering, exciting opportunities exist for students and faculty at all levels to address some of Earth’s greatest challenges. We consider it our mission as engineers to serve the common good, encompassing humanity and the natural world.   

Villanova Engineering is home to seven highly regarded centers of excellence and more than a dozen specialty research areas. Our research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Naval Research and Army Research Lab, as well as local and regional industry partners, governmental agencies and foundations.

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RESEARCH NEWS

C. Nataraj with graduate students in a lab

Villanova Engineering Launches Center for Dynamics, Intelligence and Learning Systems

The new center, CDIALS, merges two existing Centers of Excellence—the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Control and the Villanova Center for Analytics of Dynamic Systems—into a single organization designed to advance research at the intersection of intelligent technologies, dynamic systems and human learning.

Sylvie Lorente

Villanova Engineering Researcher Receives $1.2M from WWJR Enterprises to Advance Compressed Air Energy Storage Solutions

“Advanced technology developments in our world today really call for different ways of producing and storing energy,” said Sylvie Lorente, PhD, the William M. Brown ’84, ’87 Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering. “The immediate need is to improve compressed air energy storage, a technology that has been around for a long time but has stagnated because it isn’t efficient enough.”

Tommaso Cappello and a student in a lab

National Science Foundation Awards CAREER Grant to Villanova Engineering Professor

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Tommaso Cappello, PhD, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the High-Performance RF Lab at Villanova University’s College of Engineering, as a recipient of the Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.