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Maryland Engineering serves as a catalyst for high-quality research, innovation, and learning, delivering on a promise that all graduates will leave ready to impact the grand challenges of the 21st century. James Clark School of Engineering, situated on the rolling, 1,500-acre University of Maryland campus in College Park, Md., is one of the premier engineering schools in the U.S., with graduate and undergraduate education programs ranked in or near the Top 20. The school, which offers 13 graduate programs and 12 undergraduate programs, including degree and certification programs tailored for working professionals, is home to one of the most vibrant research programs in the country. With emphasis in key areas such as energy, nanotechnology and materials, bioengineering, robotics, communications and networking, life cycle and reliability engineering, project management, intelligent transportation systems and aerospace, the Clark School is leading the way toward the next generations of engineering advances.

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10/20/2026

Congratulations to our 2026-2027 Top 25 Source Schools!

These schools send the most in-state students to us at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. As part of a land grant institution, we are committed to serving the state by preparing the next generation of engineers to lead, innovate, and build a better future.

Thank you to the teachers, counselors, and staff who help launch these students on their engineering journeys. Your impact is felt here every day at the Clark School.

Here are the top schools, with those that submitted photos to us marked with asterisks:

Clarksburg High School
Montgomery Blair High School*
Winston Churchill High School*
Eleanor Roosevelt High School
Urbana High School
Richard Montgomery High School*
Eastern Technical High School*
Sherwood High School*
Quince Orchard High School
Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School
Severna Park High School
Marriotts Ridge High School
Reservoir High School*
Wheaton High School*
Archbishop Spalding High School
Northwest High School
Charles Herbert Flowers High School
Poolesville High School
Centennial High School
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute*
Mount Hebron High School
Dulaney High School*
Rockville High School*
Glenelg High School*
Seneca Valley High School*
Northern High School
North Point High School
Atholton High School
Paint Branch High School

See how many students have been sent to the Clark School from these high schools:
https://eng.umd.edu/2026-2027

10/19/2026

Driving can be tedious and dangerous. Autonomous (self-driving) vehicles (AVs) promise to save time and reduce crashes. Xianfeng “Terry” Yang, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Maryland Transportation Institute, is working to make this technology truly roadworthy.

His lab uses artificial intelligence (AI) to maximize how efficiently AVs travel on the road system. Simultaneously, Yang and his team are addressing some of the technology’s problems, including critical gaps where the AV lacks training to make split-second, potentially life-or-death decisions.

To read more about Terry Yang's research, click the link in bio for the "Faster. Safer. Better." featury story!

Filmed inside the M-TRAIL lab's Level 4 Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV), developed on a hybrid Chrysler Pacifica minivan platform.

VASPatch started as an undergraduate research project at University of Maryland. Now the team has secured $200,000 to he...
10/18/2026

VASPatch started as an undergraduate research project at University of Maryland. Now the team has secured $200,000 to help move the VASPatch wearable device from the lab toward the clinic. VASPatch protects hemodialysis patients by offering continuous, automated monitoring.

The team received a $180,000 Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) Technology Assessment Grant from Maryland Technology Development Corporation - TEDCO to advance the device toward commercialization, and was awarded the first-place $20,000 Steven H. Krosnick Prize, funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering / National Institutes of Health (NIH), at the 2026 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge.

Jeremy Yun ’26 began the project as a freshman doing undergraduate research with Sahil Shah, ssistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMD (ECE) and an affiliate fellow in the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices. The team includes Caroline Colangelo ’26, Ian Jackson (B.S. ’27, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland) and Mary Barsoum (B.S. ’28, ECE). Dr. Matthew Weir, head of nephrology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is the co-investigator on the MII grant.

Thinking about applying to the Clark School or know someone interested in applying for fall 2027 admission? Here are th...
10/15/2026

Thinking about applying to the Clark School or know someone interested in applying for fall 2027 admission? Here are the top 5 tips straight from the Clark School’s Recruitment & Outreach team to help you put your best application forward. 📝

1. Get organized
2. Lock in recommendations early
3. Prove your STEM passion
4. Brag a little
5. Be yourself

The path to the most rewarding work is rarely straight. Ask Rho Ma, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering who com...
10/14/2026

The path to the most rewarding work is rarely straight. Ask Rho Ma, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering who combines biology, additive manufacturing, and art to create innovative functional designs—for applications in fields including toy design, soft robotics, and product development.

In the Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing (BAM) Laboratory, Ma is leveraging their knowledge of arthropod mechanics to inspire new technologies. “Graduate school has been especially rewarding,” they say. “It has given me the opportunity to work across distinct fields and engage with people who bring different perspectives to the same questions.”

For the VIP Program, Ma works with Research Professor, Molly Carton, to teach students about arthropods so that they can teach others. Ma’s student researchers are using high-speed videos of spider predatory strikes and spider CT scans to study movement and translate those observations into a 3D animated flexible spider structure for educational events, including Maryland Day. 🪲

Place your orders before our pop-up store closes on Oct. 19! Some styles won't return in the spring.We have lots of grea...
10/12/2026

Place your orders before our pop-up store closes on Oct. 19! Some styles won't return in the spring.

We have lots of great apparel and gear, including fun youth T-shirts, backpacks, caps, sweatpants, half and quarter zips, vests, hoodies and water bottles. But so far, our best selling items are our department T-shirts and polos.

Let us know what you're after, or visit: umdengfall26.itemorder.com/shop/home/

Jenna Mueller and her research team have received two National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grants for a combined $6.7...
10/11/2026

Jenna Mueller and her research team have received two National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grants for a combined $6.7 million to support two five-year projects through 2031.

The first grant will advance KeyScope, a low-cost laparoscope designed to make minimally invasive surgery more accessible in low-resource settings. Collaborators include grad student Anne Barnes, Tamara Fitzgerald (Duke Health) and our Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices.

The second grant will help to develop a topical ethanol-based gel to treat low-grade cervical dysplasia, a precancerous condition affecting cells on the surface of the cervix. This is a joint project with Katharina Maisel. Collaborators include Research Technician and Faculty Specialist Michele Kaluzienski and Julie Hurvitz of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Mueller is the principal investigator of the Global Biomedical Devices Lab. She is an associate professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland and an affiliate fellow with the Fischell Institute.

See the full details here:
https://eng.umd.edu/news/story/mueller-lab-receives-two-nih-grants-to-advance-lowcost-cancer-care

10/08/2026

From elementary school teaching to global education at the university-level, Kelly M.’s approach has been consistent: “By combining learning-by-doing, leadership development, cross-cultural communication, and inclusion, young people become better students, teammates—and more well-rounded members of their communities,” she says.

As program manager for experiential learning in the Office of Global Engineering Leadership, her role encompasses study abroad, leadership education, experiential learning, and initiatives including the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program.

Her advice to Maryland Engineering students? Go to a couple of student organization meetings or events. Pursue your passions and find ways for the Clark School to feel more like home. For students in the LGBTQ+ community, she highlights oSTEM (.ostem) as a great asset for community members and allies alike.

Working in community across different backgrounds, experiences, and identities, Kelly focuses on centering her values—and advises students to do the same. In terms of her own journey, she notes that things don’t always work linearly, or quickly. “There’s no set timeline in anyone’s journey,” she says. “It took me a while to grow and feel confident in my q***r identity. Know that you’re not too late. You’re right on time for you.”

10/08/2026

Go behind the scenes with five engineering researchers! Here’s an informal look at the faculty members in our latest feature story: Faster. Safer. Better.

From ultrafast travel to next-gen computing, across fire safety and quantum technology, and from electric vehicles to autonomous driving, these innovators are tackling urgent challenges to make what comes “next” better for everyone.

For this photoshoot, we were thrilled to work with the talented Tony Richards of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. His portraits (still and animated) are viewable on our site now:
https://eng.umd.edu/faster-safer-better

Our researchers (in order of appearance):
1) Christoph Brehm, hypersonics (The Department of Aerospace Engineering at UMCP)
2) Avit Dutt, quantum computing (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland)
3) Xianfeng “Terry” Yang, autonomous vehicles (Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UMD)
4) Rosalie Hrybyk ’13, M.S. ’15, performance-based design (University of Maryland Department of Fire Protection Engineering)
5) Chunsheng Wang, ultrafast charging EVs (Maryland Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

Maryland is the capital of quantum! We were thrilled to take part in Quantum World Congress 2026 (QWC), held in College ...
10/05/2026

Maryland is the capital of quantum! We were thrilled to take part in Quantum World Congress 2026 (QWC), held in College Park at The Hotel at the University of Maryland.

Researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, public officials, and industry leaders from across the globe came to campus for QWC at the end of September and learned about the investments and research that we're doing at University of Maryland and the state of Maryland.

UMD’s quantum research combines physics, computer science, engineering and materials science, resulting in applications with the power to change the world.

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