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For their last class of the fall, students in FSAD 4660 Textiles, Apparel and Innovation unveiled their apparel and product ideas designed to help seniors prevent falls and minimize their harm, stay warm and alert on winter streets, and achieve greater mobility and independence.
Cornell University | Such bolts from the blue (or black) of space rarely wreak such havoc. But less severe irritants—interrupted radio transmissions, disrupted GPS devices, even rusting of pipelines—can result when electric currents course through the magnetic field, says Joshua Semeter, who’d like to know more about…
Boston University | “You can plan a road that looks perfectly fine on paper,” Martz says. Once actual people start using the road, though, the game changes. Drivers can be unpredictable. “Someone goes and does something, and you say, ‘I didn’t see that coming.’”
University of Missouri, Columbia | An undergraduate engineering student at Johns Hopkins University joined a research team which discovered that a previous assumption about the flight dynamics of insects was inaccurate. Their findings have implications for biologists who study how insects fly.
The Johns Hopkins University | University of Colorado Boulder aerospace engineering students are working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create robotic rovers that can investigate some of the earth’s hostile natural environments. See the rovers in action, and find out how CU-Boulder students are getting invaluable hands…
University of Colorado Boulder | In 2012, Swahili lecturer Mahiri Mwita approached Princeton University’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) with the idea of starting a project in the Kuria District of Kenya where he grew up. Three years later, a team of Princeton engineering students has helped design and build an award-…
Princeton University | A team of Michigan State University engineering students who are assisting in the building of a rainwater containment system at a school in Tanzania has received a $25,000 grant to support the work.
Michigan State University | Last fall, students from Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) responded to a challenge from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to help make their vehicles more accessible for people with disabilities.
Case Western Reserve University | The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 4 million deaths each year from illnesses attributable to household air pollution. Chronic lung and heart diseases particularly affect the women and children who stay inside, tending the house. In fact, WHO reports that air pollution from…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USC students traveled to a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos to research and find immediate engineering solutions to the global refugee crisis.
University of Southern California |