Showing posts with label ENGINEERING. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ENGINEERING. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2015

FED FUNDING OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INSTITUTIONS DROPS 6%

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Federal funding for science and engineering at universities down 6 percent Latest figures show obligati...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

NSF TOUTS FUNDING OF LASER RESEARCH

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION On the road to ubiquity NSF support of laser research When the National Science Foundation (NSF) was f...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

SHAPE CHANGING WING FLAPS

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FROM:  NASA GREEN AVIATION Green Aviation Project Tests Shape Changing Wing Flaps A NASA F-15D flies chase for the G-III Adaptive Comp...

S. KOREA ROBOT WINS FIRST PRIZE AT DARPA ROBOT FINALS

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FROM:  U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT Right:  Team Kaist’s robot DRC-Hubo uses a tool to cut a hole in a wall during the DARPA Robotics Challen...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

NSF REPORTS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING GRAD SCHOOL ENROLLMENT UP

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Science and engineering graduate school enrollment increases Rise largely fueled by influx of foreign s...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

NSF ON THE 'ENERGY INTERNET'

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Creating the energy Internet How leaders in research, industry and engineering education are working to...
Monday, February 9, 2015

AI AND SAFE SELF-DRIVING CARS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Programming safety into self-driving cars UMass researchers improve artificial intelligence algorithms ...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

NASA PLANS MARS MISSION IN 2030'S

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FROM:  NASA  NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s – goals outlined ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

NSF VIDEO SCIENCE NATION: IMMERSIVE ROBOTICS EXPERIENCE INSPIRES FUTURE ENGINEERS

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

NSF REPORTS ON TELE-ROBOTICS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Tele-robotics puts robot power at your fingertips University of Washington research enables robot-a...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

BEETLE INSPIRES NEW MATERIALS DEVELOPED TO TRAP AND CHANNEL SMALL AMOUNTS OF FLUIDS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Quenching the world's water and energy crises, one tiny droplet at a time In pursuit of beetle ...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

NSF ON WALKING FOR ENERGY

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Walking can recharge the spirit, but what about our phones? Device captures energy from walking to ...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

NSF-FUNDED SUPERCOMPUTER DOES WHAT LAB EXPERIMENTS CAN'T

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SCIENCE  A high-performance first year for Stampede NSF-funded supercomputer enables discoveries thr...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

NSF ON "NEW CLOCKING TECHNOLOGIES"

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Revolutionizing how we keep track of time in cyber-physical systems New five-year, $4 million Front...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

ENGINEER STUDIES HUMAN BEHAVIOR TO HELP DEVELOP ENERGY-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Energy-efficient technologies developed with people in mind Engineer studies human behavior and ho...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

RESEARCHERS LOOK AT THE BRAIN

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Engineers ask the brain to say, "Cheese!" How do we take an accurate picture of the world...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

NSF ON BUILDING A BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACE

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  How to build a brain-machine interface New-generation brain technologies are now in use thanks to n...