Arkansas Engineer

The magazine of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering

In Memoriam: Earnest Fant

Earnest W. Fant, associate professor of industrial engineering, died Thursday, Nov. 7 at his home in Fayetteville. Fant was 73 years old. He had taught in the industrial engineering department since 1988. “Earnest Fant was a beloved teacher to many students, and he...

Student Profile: Stefan McCall

“I know one thing,” said mechanical engineering student Stefan McCall, “I like math.” Stefan’s love of math led him to explore the field of engineering. In high school he attended the Engineering Summer Academy and chose the mechanical engineering Solar Boat camp. He...
Alumni in Healthcare

Alumni in Healthcare

Neil Ingels, BSEE‘59, Neil Ingels spent most of his career at Stanford University and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. With a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Ingels had many different job opportunities, but he chose to be...
Healthcare Research Across the College

Healthcare Research Across the College

Biological and Agricultural Engineering PROFESSOR JIN-WOO KIM is working on a method to detect even small numbers of cancer cells in the blood—the first sign of metastasis. Kim arranges nanoparticles into structures, called plasmonics, which respond to specific...