At the University of Alaska Anchorage, you can pursue your dream of becoming an engineer,
computer scientist, or project manager while living in Anchorage--the business, industrial,
cultural, and recreational center of Alaska. Located near all major Alaskan employers
of engineering, computer science, and project management talent, 74% of our job-seeking
students have jobs before they graduate!
The Alaska Department of Labor has projected the state will need 627 new computer
and engineering professionals by 2030 -- requiring two new hires for every one that
retires. UAA's College of Engineering is committed to producing cutting-edge graduates
ready to energize the state's growing engineering community.
October 19, 2023"By hosting the DNR GNSS reference station on our campus, UAA remains at the forefront
of geospatial education and research, equipping our students to become trailblazers
in this dynamic field’ said Dr. Kenrick Mock, Dean of the College of Engineering,
University of Alaska Anchorage. “We are excited about the positive impact this collaboration
will have on our community and the state of Alaska."
On the North Slope there are thousands of small pipes that ultimately come together
to feed into the big one — the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Each of those pipes are a potential
hazard, especially as they experience the effects of air, water and chemistry over
long periods of time. Even in the cold of the Arctic, pipes will eventually succumb
to corrosion — the natural chemical process that transforms refined metals into oxides.
That’s where Oleg Shiryayev, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering
in UAA’s College of Engineering, comes in.
This morning when you made your coffee, did you stop and wonder how much of that electricity
came from wind, solar, hydro or natural gas? It can be daunting trying to track that
down. Not for long! Two UAA Computer Science seniors are busy developing an app that
will track where your coffee pot is getting its electricity from.
The USDOT just awarded a $15 million renewal grant to the Pacific Northwest Transportation
Consortium (PacTrans), of which UAA is a partner along with Portland State University,
University of Idaho, Washington State University, and led by the University of Washington.
The Northwest Indian College will also serve as an education and outreach partner.
CoEng's own Dr. Abaza heads the UAA engineering team as PacTrans leads the nation
into the future of transportation infrastructure research and development.
In 2002, a large earthquake (Mw=7.9) struck in the Alaska Range near Tok, inflicting
severe infrastructure damage to two sites: the Tok Cutoff highway near the Slana River
and the Northway Airport by the Canadian border. This may sound like old news, but
in UAA’s College of Engineering, researchers are still uncovering valuable findings
from this disaster — findings that may help the Alaska Department of Transportation
& Public Facilities (AKDOT&PF) better prepare for future earthquakes.
For Peter Renner, the last four years have felt like sprinting a marathon. He went
into Texas A&M’s mechanical engineering Ph.D. program in 2018, right after graduating
from UAA, and just four years later he is now a postdoctoral fellow at Sandia National
Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That means he blasted through his coursework,
exams and dissertation in practically record time — even with the coronavirus pandemic
and a newborn daughter thrown into the mix.
If you spent much time around the Engineering and Industry Building this last year,
you were almost guaranteed to see UAA College of Engineering Professor Getu Hailu
carting industrial sized thermoses in and out of the building. It turns out the thermoses
were not for his lunch. They contained freezing cold liquid nitrogen for use in his
NASA-funded research into how extreme cold affects different materials.
The University of Alaska Anchorage is excited to announce a new partnership with the
Bellingham Technical College (BTC) to further educational opportunities for students
and meet the high-demand needs for today’s Geomatics workforce. The new partnership
offers a pathway for students in BTC’s associate degree in Engineering Technology
- Geomatics to continue their education and finish with a Bachelor of Science in Geomatics
at UAA.
Anchorage’s Ted Stevens International Airport is one of the top five busiest cargo
airports in the world. Anticipating this increase in northern shipping, UAA professor of structural engineering
Scott Hamel, P.E., Ph.D., began researching the determination of ice crushing forces
on vertical piles with tidal-accreted ice, which was one of seven UAA research projects
selected for the 2020 ConocoPhillips Arctic Science and Engineering Endowment Awards.