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The information gained through this effort will help extend the life and improve the efficiency of the existing U.S. nuclear reactor fleet and could help lead to the design of safer, longer-lasting materials in next-generation reactors.

In a matter of weeks, Stanford graduate students have built an electric car they hope will make daily travel more environmentally friendly, efficient and fun.

The new 20kW wind turbine is fitted with a revolutionary generator, known as the Brushless Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (BDFIG), which has been the subject of research at Cambridge over the past 10 years.

Van Dyke made significant contributions to the field of fluid mechanics, particularly in understanding the flow of air around airplanes and spacecraft traveling faster than the speed of sound.

When the federal government approved the Cape Wind project in April, allowing 130 power-generating turbines to be placed in the waters off Cape Cod, it gave a significant boost to the prospects of wind energy.

An innovative bicycle-powered water pump, created by a student at the University of Sheffield, has proved a huge success and is now in regular production in Guatemala, transforming the lives of rural residents.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A robot named MABEL with a human-like gait can walk over rough terrain in University of Michigan electrical engineering professor Jessy Grizzle's lab.

Stanford team wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize with revolutionary electrode design to improve solar panel performance CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Yi Qi, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, holds a piece of silicone rubber imprinted with super-thin material that generates electricity when flexed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).