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High School Students Design Eco-Friendly Plane for Real World Design Challenge
For one group of students from Marlborough High School in Massachusetts it’s not been an average spring term. They’ve been given a challenge: to design a low-carbon-emission and environmentally friendly two-man sport aircraft that can fly at 1000 feet from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC), which began …
Engineering Titanic: Lessons Learned One-Hundred Years On
When IT leaders gather for his lectures expecting PowerPoint presentations rich with organizational trees and multicolored bar graphs, consultant Mark Kozak-Holland instead projects the image of a black ship’s prow sailing toward them out of dark and distant history. It’s a symbol that seems as unlikely for this era and this audience as it is notoriously well-known. Yet it’s surprisingly …
Engineered to Last – Fenway Park Turns One-Hundred
Outside the red-brick left-field wall of Boston’s Fenway Park is a little-noticed latticework of steel trusses that rises to the peak of the famous 37-foot Green Monster. The ingeniously engineered support, invisible from inside the stadium, allowed 274 highly prized (and pricey) seats to be added at the top of the wall. It’s the most obvious evidence of 10 winters …
Cool Characters: Engineers Take On Global Warming
A narrow hose made of composite fibers rises 18 miles over the Arctic. Supported by V-shaped balloons, it sprays 34 gallons per minute of sulfur dioxide into the earth’s stratosphere. Slowly, the aerosol reflects the sun’s rays back into space. The temperature cools. The Arctic ice stops melting. Sea levels stabilize, no longer threatening to rise and wipe out coastal …
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Brewing Up Some High-Tech Coffee
Like many professionals, I don’t (more truthfully, can’t) start my morning until I’ve had my first cup of coffee. It literally dictates the type of day I’m going to have; focused and alert versus zombie-like interactions. I’ve never been a fan of brewing my own cup. I don’t know whether it’s the clutter of yet another appliance on the kitchen …
Myomo Neuro-Robotic Arm Brace a Powerful Rehab Tool
Find a prevalent problem and solve it – any MBA worth their tuition will enthusiastically volunteer this as the surest way to start a successful company. What started in Woodie Flowers’ lab at MIT as research into prosthetics, became a solution for stroke victims struggling with hemiparesis. Named the mPower 1000, the Myomo (My Own Motion) neuro-robotic arm brace uses …
Robots Take Cue from Lizards and Dinosaurs
Engineers and biologists at the University of California, Berkeley have come together to build a new robot with a unique physical characteristic: a tail. The design of the appropriately named Tailbot—which looks like a toy car—is based on research of how lizards and dinosaurs move. The University of California, Berkeley team discovered that lizards use their tails to help guide …
Mind Reading No Longer Required Coursework for Engineering Students
Let me read your mind! Think of a number between one and 1,000,000. Square your number. Now add the original number to it. Now divide your total by the original number. Now add… oh say, 17. Now subtract the original number. Now divide the total by six. What you are left with is… Three! (yes, I’m in your head). Ok, …
Engineering for a Better Tomorrow: Breakthrough in Water Treatment Technology
Clean water. Most of us take it for granted. However, in many communities in the developing world access to clean water is not guaranteed. On a daily basis millions live without clean water due to the high energy costs associated with running a water treatment plant. Most experience higher rates of illness and a lower quality of life. New technology …
Catwalk CAD: The Next Fashion Craze
CAD is to engineering as fabric is to fashion. But as CAD becomes more lightweight and easier to use it’s expanding its reach to new environments. Applying traditional CAD software to produce non-traditional designs for non-traditional materials is the new vogue. If you ever get a chance to go to an international fashion show in London, Paris, Amsterdam or Melbourne, …
