The Ohio State University’s Venturi Buckeye Bullet 3 student team and driver Roger Schroer rallied to push their electric streamline vehicle to a world record two-way average top speed of 341.4 miles per hour on Monday.
In outer space, body fluid doesn’t circulate the way it does on Earth. Instead, it may be rushing to the head and causing all sorts of issues, including impairing astronauts’ vision during and after their missions. A Carolina senior and recent graduate are now trying to figure out why.
A group of students from the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego will spend the summer trying to curb the HIV epidemic in Tijuana, Mexico.
The consequences are important: ultimately, understanding how California’s native bumblebees respond to changes in the environment and the availability of flowers, and how we can protect these insects that are so vital to both agriculture and wild plants.
In a series of launches, including a 70-hour world record for flight time, undergraduates show how to do atmospheric research with a latex balloon system that costs about $1,000.
How about shrink wrapping your hand to have an MRI? Or having a light in a cast to help heal diabetic foot ulcers? These are just some of a record number of design projects developed by Vanderbilt Engineering students for Design Day 2016.
“Buy a zombie survival kit. Buy garden gnomes. Buy shoes. Buy more shoes.” So says the homepage of Drops.la, the brainchild of junior Shea Rouda. But there’s a critical second step to these entreaties: “… and donate the spare change to charity.”
This spring, a hands-on course housed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) took students on a trip to “Duckietown.” The class’ goal was to create a fleet of 50 duckie-adorned self-driving taxis that can navigate the roads of a model city with just a single on-board camera and no pre-programmed maps.
Whether plumbing the depths of the ocean floor or blasting off into outer space, students set their sites on solving complex problems in “Engineering Design Projects” (ES 100). The capstone course at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) challenges seniors to develop a creative project that solves a real-world engineering problem.
Braun, a computer engineering major, was chatting with a family friend who is a firefighter. He described the chaotic environments they face and explained the protective gear they wear.