Motivational
Everyone knows that the USC Viterbi School’s entering freshmen are smart, but are they capable of performing miracles? Hossein Hashemi’s Freshman Academy was - and did - by finding a way to walk on water for their final project.
They gathered in December at the USC McDonald’s Olympic swimming pool for their final presentations after spending the second half of the semester designing flotation platforms and devices to achieve a seemingly impossible feat.
“One of the greatest things about this class is that it helps you make the huge transition from school to college life,” said Freshman Academy coach Rebecca Sekar, a biomedical engineering major who was in the academy last year. “These students are definitely creative. They put a lot of time and effort into their projects.” |
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Thursday 15 January, 2009 02:38 PM |
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Physics always seems to want to come out to play . Just when this most technical of sciences starts to seem impossibly arcane, it goes goofy on you, as it did last year with the announcement that physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, had developed a tiny working model of an invisibility cloak. This week, the physics magic shop announced yet another wonder: levitation. Really. |
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Friday 9 January, 2009 03:47 AM |
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Northrop and Johnson Sales Division is pleased to announce three new listings for sale; the 131ft Oceanfast Opal C, the 115ft Crescent Kapalua and the 98ft MCP Yacht Obrigado.
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Thursday 8 January, 2009 02:51 AM |
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The National Aeronautics and Space Agency is posting a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational videos freely available for use in the classroom or home environment. Called “NASA eClips,” the program provides short videos for different age groups on both YouTube and the NASA educational website. Some of these videos are directly created by NASA and others are provided by partners or organizations that donate their video for posting. |
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Wednesday 7 January, 2009 04:47 PM |
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“Our country desperately needs innovative entrepreneurs and efficient managers in order to survive in this increasingly competitive global environment.” —Baumann
Recalling NASA designed the Atlas rocket, the workhorse of the early space program, in only three years using slide rules, Dr. Hans Baumann wonders if computers are overused today, especially during the education of engineers. It might be the case, he believes, that too much reliance on the narrow, deterministic environment of pre-packaged software solutions inhibits the free-ranging perspective that sustains creativity. “You do not invent using software.”
His appraisal of American standing as an engine of technological development is similarly no-nonsense: “The United States is sliding backwards, losing market share and technical leadership.”
“We will be challenged pretty soon,” he said, “because of the public debt and the demise of our industrial base. It will produce a crisis in this country.”
That contemporary thinking and a professional career where he personally designed or directed the development of over 30 valve lines are some of the reasons Baumann earned ISA’s Honorary Member award, the society’s highest honor. The award recognizes “contributions in the advancement of the arts and sciences of automation throughout a five-decade career of invention, design, writing, consulting and business leadership.” |
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Wednesday 7 January, 2009 12:46 PM |
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Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Initially designed to construct a dome, the building material is composed of a lunar rock-like material mixed with powdered aluminum that can be molded into any shape. The invention recently won the In-Situ Lunar Resource Utilization materials and construction category award from the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES). The award was one of two prizes given out this year by the research center, which is dedicated to supporting life on the moon and beyond.
Design work on the early-development lunar bricks was based on previous work by the College of Engineering student team’s adviser Kathryn Logan, a professor of materials science and engineering and the Virginia Tech Langley Professor at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) in Hampton, Va. The seven-member student team works with Logan at the NIA. |
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Tuesday 6 January, 2009 03:47 PM |
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FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) launched its
eighteenth FIRST Robotics Competition season today with a Kickoff of a new
robotics game called "Lunacy" at Southern New Hampshire University in
Manchester, NH, hometown and headquarters of FIRST.
"Forty years ago, NASA fueled a generation`s imagination with the success of
Apollo 11. As we celebrate that remarkable feat of technology and engineering
with our 2009 game, "Lunacy," we are sparking more of that kind of inspiration
through the FIRST Robotics Competition," said FIRST founder, Dean Kamen. "Just
as NASA scientists landed a man on the moon and returned him safely to earth in
1969, so too will these young people go on to explore new frontiers and develop
breakthrough technologies that will change the world." |
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Sunday 4 January, 2009 12:18 PM |
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Speed is like an aphrodisiac to some people, and I imagine those who experience this will lust after this production powercraft creation from UK-based XSMG Marine, the fabulous XSR 48 .
Believe it or not, this incredible craft is theoretically capable of the ‘magic ton’, 100mph (160km/hr) depending on engines chosen and set up.
Even in its standard form, if any aspect of such a craft can be termed standard, the XSR 48 can achieve 75 knots (about 85.5mph or 137.5km/hr).
So what makes this amazing boat quicker than you average speed boat, quicker even than a Ferrari Daytona ‘supercar’?
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Thursday 18 December, 2008 11:16 AM |
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What happened to the Personal Robot - a domestic servant who would never tire of being told what to do? When writer Danny Wallace set off to find out the fate of this long overdue dream, the BBC's Peter Leonard joined him.
Human beings are just brilliant. We can dive to the sea bed in submarines, fly to the moon in rocket ships, design uber-powerful computers and so on and so forth.
But so far we've failed to deliver one of the most tantalising promises of the modern age. Personal domestic robots have remained irritatingly elusive. |
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Thursday 18 December, 2008 01:37 AM |
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