by Tom Gibson | May 23, 2022 | Engineering Schools
UIUC researcher leads flying taxi research effort with a $6M NASA grant By Bill Bowman Fans of the 1997 film “The Fifth Element” were undoubtedly drawn to the gravity-defying cars filling the screen, especially the Bruce Willis character’s air taxi. Thanks to a...
by Tom Gibson | Apr 7, 2022 | Engineering Schools
NJIT and City of Newark receive grant to pursue smart port concept By Andrew McMains U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has announced that a regional coalition led by the City of Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is among 60 projects...
by Tom Gibson | Mar 2, 2022 | Engineering Schools
RISC chip innovators receive the 2022 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering By Brandon Green and Deborah Young The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has announced that the 2022 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering will be awarded to David Patterson,...
by Tom Gibson | Dec 3, 2021 | Engineering Schools
Pitt engineers designing a more sustainable electric vehicle By Maggie Lindenberg The global market for electric vehicles (EVs) is expected to grow by more than 25 percent by 2030, with some politicians and manufacturers calling for a phase-out of gasoline-powered...
by Tom Gibson | Sep 27, 2021 | Engineering Schools
SMU professor awarded NSF grant for models to better evacuate natural disasters like hurricanes By Monifa Thomas-Nguyen Halit Uster, an engineering professor at Southern Methodist University, has been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of...
by Tom Gibson | Jun 11, 2021 | Engineering Schools
UC Riverside engineers create activated carbon from corn stover that filters 98 percent of a pollutant from water By Holly Ober Corn is America’s top agricultural crop and also one of its most wasteful. About half the harvest—stalks, leaves, husks, and cobs— remains...
