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Mechanical Engineering - 20.05.2010

Researcher develops new way of scanning the ear canal with 3-D imaging technology
Stanford team wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize with revolutionary electrode design to improve solar panel performance CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

Electroengineering - Mechanical Engineering - 14.05.2010

UCLA gets $5.5 million from Defense agency to create new rotating microscale motors
If you've ever used an iPhone, a Wii video game or an automobile airbag, you've benefited from micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, in which arrays of tiny devices mounted on computer

Mechanical Engineering - Environment - 14.05.2010

Researchers develop disaster relief technologies for Haiti
Even before the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving more than 1 million homeless, the citizens of the Caribbean nation were in desperate need of access to clean drinking water and electricity.

Mechanical Engineering - 11.05.2010

Rock and Roll: Titan’s Gem Tumbler
It appears flash flooding has paved streambeds in the Xanadu region of Saturn's moon Titan with thousands of sparkling crystal balls of ice, according to scientists with NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Physics - Mechanical Engineering - 20.04.2010

Collaborative engineering paper a Nanotechnology ’highlight’
A collaborative research paper including work by Dr Fabrizio Scarpa from the University of Bristol's Department of Aerospace Engineering has been named as one of the highlights of 2009 by leading journal Nanotechnology.

Mechanical Engineering - 19.04.2010

UCL brings the scientific method to London primary schools
Dr Stephanie Schorge (UCL Institute of Neurology) describes how smells, colours and balls inspired London schoolchildren in a day of scientific discovery last month.

Mechanical Engineering - 14.04.2010

University balloonist recognised for exceptional achievement
PA 88/10 University of Nottingham engineer and record breaking balloonist Dr Janet Folkes has been presented with the British Balloon and Airship Club's (BBAC) coveted Charles Green Salver for exceptional achievement.

Mechanical Engineering - 23.03.2010

Computer Science - Mechanical Engineering - 23.03.2010

Good vibrations
Energy harvesting ? using vibrations from the environment to produce electricity ? has been around for over a decade, but Dr Stephen Burrow and his team in the Department of Aerospace Engineering hope that within five years it could be powering devices such as heart monitors and mobile phones.

Mechanical Engineering - Environment - 22.03.2010

Cheap and green
PA62/10 Zero-carbon, renewable energy which is cost-competitive with fossil fuel generated sources is surely the Holy Grail of the engineering world.

Environment - Mechanical Engineering - 17.03.2010

UCL student envisages office of the future
That's the intriguing question at the heart of a research project investigating whether everyday workplace activities carried out by human beings could be harnessed and converted into useful electrical energy.

Mechanical Engineering - Physics - 09.03.2010

NNSA, LANL announce successful first Dual-Axis hydrodynamic test
DARHT facility captures five X-ray images and other test data in unprecedented simultaneous use of two electron accelerators WASHINGTON, D.C. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced today that Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) fired its first-ever double-viewpoint hydrodynamic test of a nuclear weapon component mockup.

Physics - Mechanical Engineering - 05.02.2010

Scientist makes a leap in quantum computing
Jason Petta, an assistant professor of physics, has found a way to alter the property of a lone electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons in its immediate surroundings. Such a feat is an important step toward developing future types of quantum computers.

Mechanical Engineering - Physics - 28.01.2010

Engineering the world’s fastest swimsuit

Physics - Mechanical Engineering - 28.01.2010

Energy-harvesting rubber sheets could power pacemakers, mobile phones
Yi Qi, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, holds a piece of silicone rubber imprinted with super-thin material that generates electricity when flexed.

Mechanical Engineering - 13.12.2009

Student innovation competition tackles the challenges of ageing
Student innovation competition tackles the challenges of ageing Budding designers in Mechanical Engineering pitch their ideas to Dragon's Den style judging panel.

Mechanical Engineering - Electroengineering - 13.12.2009

Siemens open wind power research centre at University

Physics - Mechanical Engineering - 18.11.2009

UM Engineers Receive a Grant to Support Research of Hypersonic Materials and Structures
November 19, 2009 — Coral Gables — The University of Miami (UM) College of Engineering has been awarded a grant totaling $421,000 over five years from the newly established National Hyper

Mechanical Engineering - Physics - 06.11.2009

Rolls-Royce Research Partnership to Develop Next Generation Materials for Cleaner, More Efficient Gas Turbines
Rolls-Royce and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPSRC), are to work jointly with three UK universities, including the University of Birmingham, in a new £50 million strategic

Mechanical Engineering - Physics - 04.11.2009

Blades of glory
PA 283/09 The efficiency of wind turbine blades is key to improving the efficiency of this sustainable energy source.

Economics / Business - Mechanical Engineering - 29.10.2009

Universities welcome £40m Manufacturing Technology Centre

Mechanical Engineering - Economics / Business - 20.10.2009

Mechanical Engineering - 09.09.2009

Record breaking balloonist does it again
PA 234/09 Distinguished balloonist and University of Nottingham engineer Dr Janet Folkes has broken yet another world record for ballooning.

Mechanical Engineering - Chemistry - 08.07.2009

Imperial engineers honoured for their outstanding work
Imperial engineers honoured for their outstanding work Royal Academy of Engineering announces new Fellows - Thursday 9 July 2009 By Naomi Weston Two Imperial College London academics have been electe

Mechanical Engineering - Economics / Business - 22.06.2009

Mechanical Engineering - 25.03.2009

Students design features for the car of the future at Imperial
Students design features for the car of the future at Imperial Industrial Design and Engineering postgraduates are helping a motor company to design a new car %0A " Thursday 26 March 2009 By Colin Sm

Health - Mechanical Engineering - 09.02.2009

Mechanical Engineering - Health - 08.02.2009

Students to hear how they can engineer a brighter future for developing countries
Students to hear how they can engineer a brighter future for developing countries Students from the Faculty of Engineering are invited to an information night %0A " Monday 9 February 2009 By Colin Sm

Mechanical Engineering - Mathematics - 06.02.2009

Howard Stone Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Cambridge, Mass. February 6, 2009 - Howard Stone, Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).