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Engineering Students Make Electric Car
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University of South Carolina College of Engineering
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Roger Dougal, a professor at the University of South Carolina’s College of Engineering has an interesting class project. He owned a 1972 MGB red convertible that was collecting dust, and challenged his engineering students to transform it into an electric car. View PDF…
Flexible Solar Strips Light Bus Shelter
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There won’t be any more waiting in the dark at a McMaster campus bus shelter. flexible solar cell technology developed by a group of engineering researchers at McMaster University in Canada has been installed to power lighting for night-time transit users. View PDF…
Measuring the Wind
 Each issue, TryEngineering Today profiles one of the many lesson plans available on TryEngineering.org. Each lesson plan is aligned with education standards to allow teachers and students to apply engineering principles in the classroom.
As many businesses and homes seek green options for energy, wind power is increasing considered a viable option for options where the wind is consistent and strong enough to turn a turbine. A special device called an anemometer is used to test wind strength. View PDF…
Smoke Alarm System Wins Award
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James Dyson Foundation)
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A life-saving student design that could replace the smoke alarm as the essential home gadget has won the international James Dyson Award, an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. Automist can both detect fires and put them out by aerosolising the water from a standard kitchen tap. View PDF…
Purdue to Lead US Earthquake Engineering Network
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Advancing research and education to reduce the devastation and loss of human life from earthquakes and tsunamis is the goal of a new center at Purdue University. The National Science Foundation recently awarded $105 million to a Purdue-led team to spearhead a center that will serve as headquarters for the operations of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, or NEES. Purdue will connect 14 NEES research equipment sites and the earthquake engineering community through groundbreaking cyberinfrastructure, education and outreach efforts. View PDF…
Try the "Build a Lifeboat" Game
 TryEngineering links to a wide range of online activities and games to encourage students to try out engineering. In each issue we spotlight a game -- this time an interactive game which challenges players to engineer a lifeboat by selecting the appropriate material for each component. "Build a Lifeboat" was developed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Poole, England. By playing the game you learn not only about materials engineering by selecting which materials to use to build components of the lifeboat, but also experience first hand how engineers design and redesign products until they achieve an optimal design. View PDF…
Technology Spots Stolen Cars in Traffic
 A computer program that may enable moving police cars to automatically detect stolen or unregistered cars in surrounding traffic has been developed by researchers at the University of Technology, Sidney (UTS), Australia. The program uses new techniques based on hexagonal pixels, rather than the conventional square pixels, to enable a computer linked to a camera to accurately identify and read number plates in real-time -- so the number can be checked immediately against databases. View PDF…
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