Engineering News

LSU College of Engineering has completed their capital campaign to improve and expand their engineering college three months ahead of schedule. The campaign brought in more than the $100 million partnership goal needed for renovations and an addition to their engineering offerings.

A team of researchers at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) with physicians from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) developed a low-power signal-processing chip that could change the future of cochlear implants. The device would require no external hardware and would be recharged wirelessly.

Vanderbilt University has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to create a new outreach program to train graduate and undergraduate students to become representatives in engineering education for students in middle and high schools.

67 new members and 11 foreign associates were elected into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) earlier this week. The NAE, founded in 1964, is a nonprofit institute that provides engineering independent advice to federal government on matters involving engineering and technology.

The signing of this statement of cooperation between the IEC and the Russian Federal standardization and conformity assessment agencies is a large step in supporting increased trade with Russia.

A report published by Navigant Research calculates the annual worldwide revenue from energy harvesting systems will grow to almost $375 million in 2020 from $283 million in 2014.

A team of researchers at Georgia Tech have discovered a way to use graphene to transport electrons with virtually no resistance. Known as ballistic transport, this property is accomplished when electrons travel through graphene nanoribbons and behave more like optical waveguides or quantum dots.

A new report released from the European Commission could not find a conclusive link that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) from electricity pylons causes a health risk.

The first seven awards provided by the Japan-U.S. Network Opportunity (JUNO) program were announced last month by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).

IDTechEx has published a new market research report that reviews forecasts, technologies and players for the energy harvesting and storage market.  The report states the total market will rise to over $2.6 billion in 2024.