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Interconnecting different quantum systems is important for future quantum computing architectures, but has proven difficult to achieve.

As Yorkshire celebrates the news that two of its leading universities are in the Times Higher Education's 'top 100 most international universities in the world', Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Keith B

Sentera, LLC and the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have developed a high-precision autopilot toolkit for use with unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

Larissa Senatus has been immensely curious about the world around her ever since she was very young.

This story has been reposted from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin While visiting Beijing in 2008, Jason Munster went for his customary morning run but started to feel sick soon after.

Work is beginning on a new research project led by four UK universities that aims to deliver smarter, more reliable sensor based systems. These are the systems that will determine the future success of smart cities, the internet of things, big data and self-driving vehicles. The Science of Sensor Systems Software (S4) project brings together researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Liverpool and St Andrews, Imperial College London with expertise across computing, engineering, and mathematics, together with a range of private and public sector partners.

Hailed for the discovery of superplastic steel, Sherby was a professor at Stanford for 30 years. He was known on campus for his affable manner and for organizing volleyball matches and poker games.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Ling Rothrock, associate professor of industrial engineering at Penn State, has been named the editor of the Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries journal. Established in 1990, the goal of the journal is to facilitate discovery, integration and application of scientific knowledge about human aspects of manufacturing and service enterprises, and to provide a forum for worldwide dissemination of such knowledge for applicable and beneficial use in industry.

TEDxESA talk at the European Space Agency on 11 November, 2015: No matter what you take with you when going up into space, it's going to be complicated and expensive.

Dr. Laura E. Niklason, newly named as the Nicholas Greene Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering, is an internationally recognized researcher in cardiovascular tissue engineering.

Lowerand middle-income King County residents who live in denser neighborhoods - with stores, libraries and other destinations within easy reach - are more likely to walk or bike, according to new University of Washington research. But neighborhood density didn't motivate higher-income residents to leave their cars at home, the transportation engineers found.

For many applications such as biomedical, mechanical, or environmental monitoring devices, harnessing the energy of small motions could provide a small but virtually unlimited power supply.

Yale University researchers have figured out a way to refine bulk metallic glasses to improve their electrochemical performance. Results of the research, based in the lab of chemical and environmental engineering professor André D. Taylor, are published in the Dec. 21 issue of Advanced Materials.

Ben Kitcher, Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) Offshore Renewables Manager, has recently returned from India.

Novel 3D-printed material developed by University researchers receives funding in NFL-backed Head Health Challenge Funding has been awarded to world-leading, US-based helmet designer and manufacturer, Roy Burek of Charles Owen Inc.

Alyssa Kirsch, left, Jonathan Karseh and Leah DeWitt, all students in a "Sound, Silence and the Sacred" class visit the Laboratory of Ornithology to tour the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

Advances in wireless technology continue to pave the way for better consumer devices. In the future, however, wireless devices could also benefit the automotive industry, by helping diesel engines use less fuel while curbing soot and ash emissions.

Penn State professors Zuleima Karpyn and Li Li are researching the impact of abandoned wells on underground carbon sequestration into saline aquifers. On the left is a piece of a cement well they recreated for laboratory testing; 'A' shows the well prior to sequestration, and 'B' shows the well eight days after sequestration.

Europe's Vega light launcher is entering its commercial life boasting a flawless record and an impressive set of capabilities for a wide range of missions.

Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Nature-Mimicking Freeze-casting Technique for Fabricating Advanced Porous Materials It has often been said that nature is history's greatest innovator and if that is

One of Imperial's most popular and respected senior academics, Professor Stephen Richardson, retires after 40 years at the College.

Inadequate infrastructure costs the nation £2 million a day, and extreme events can cost hundreds of millions more.

Are you a doodler or a scribe? Do you prefer pen and paper, or keyboard and mouse? Do you outline your thoughts, or let them flow freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering

ANN ARBOR-The percentage of young adults without driver's licenses has been on the rise for more than 30 years, but self-driving vehicles may reverse that trend.

Complex schematics for everything from diabetes research to osteoarthritis studies take shape inside the College of Engineering's high-tech Machine Shop.

ANN ARBOR-A new agreement opens the door for groundbreaking, 3D-printed technology that saved four babies' lives to help more children.

Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people's Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.

One of the most advanced factories in the world has opened its doors in Sheffield.

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Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez has appointed Carnegie Mellon University's Lorrie Faith Cranor , professor of computer science and engineering and public policy, as the agency's chief technologist.

In the spending review and autumn statement announced by the UK Chancellor, George Osborne last week, construction work on the UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) hub, which has secured £138million of funding, was included in the key project starts for next year.

Scientists and engineers are engaged in a global race to make new materials that are as thin, light and strong as possible.

ANN ARBOR-Two new Department of Energy grants that total $5.4 million will let University of Michigan engineering researchers work on "transformational" engine and battery projects.

A £21 million award has been made to the University of Birmingham, as part of a capital investment by BIS to the UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC), to build a National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF).

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a new, more precise way to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone cells.

A long-term project aimed at improving photosynthesis in rice is entering its third stage, marking another step on the road to significantly increased crop yields that will help meet the food needs of billions of people across the developing world.

A team of U of'T engineers is unrolling the mysteries of cancer - literally. They have developed a way to grow cancer cells in the form of a rolled-up sheet that mimics the 3D environment of a tumour, yet can also be taken apart in seconds. The platform, described in a new Nature Materials paper, offers a way to speed up the development of new drugs and therapies and ask new questions about how cancer cells behave.

Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the engineering behind the V-3 "supergun", the weapon that was meant to win the Second World War for Germany.

Before Ming Tsai became a celebrity chef known for fusing Eastern and Western cuisines, he was a mechanical engineering student at Yale.

University of Washington engineers have developed a novel technology that uses a Wi-Fi router - a source of ubiquitous but untapped energy in indoor environments - to power devices.

There have been a number of inaccurate media reports in recent days regarding Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute work in cybersecurity. Carnegie Mellon University includes the Software Engineering Institute, which is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) established specifically to focus on software-related security and engineering issues.

Aircraft engine expert and mechanical engineer Professor Richard Sandberg, in collaboration with General Electric, will use some of the world's fastest computers to complete 3000 years of research in a single year.

ANN ARBOR-In custom ultra-low vibration chambers, University of Michigan researchers can conduct nanoscale experiments so precise that mere footsteps could disturb them if they were performed in a different space.

Contemporary Ensemble To Host Rare Performance of "Daniel Variations” and "Ballet Mecanique”-CMU News - Carnegie Mellon University By Dana Casto / School of Music / 412-268-4921 / dcasto