Engineering Research

LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Associate Professor Mehdi Zeidouni recently received an LSU Institute for Energy Innovation grant for his research on underground hydrogen storage sites in Louisiana with the help of Southern University PTEC Program Lead Vahid Atashbari.

LSU Biological & Agricultural Engineering Assistant Professor Bruno Rego recently received a Collaboration in Action Program (CAP) Award from LSU and Our Lady of the Lake Health (OLOL) for his proposal to leverage electronic health records and advanced image processing to identify and address disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of heart valve disease.

The country's aging infrastructure has long been an issue and presents a number of problems, including accurately understanding its viability. Existing sensors and structural health monitoring (SHM) approaches have limitations, such as high costs, limited durability, compatibility issues, and frequent maintenance needs. However, LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Yen-Fang Su believes there is a promising alternative in the form of self-sensing cementitious composites (SSCCs) due to their sensing performance, compatibility with concrete structures, and relative lower costs.