Engineering News

Researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an underwater Internet network using a 40 pound acoustic sensor. The project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and testing was done in the Lake Erie, Lake LaSalle and the University’s Alumni Arena’s swimming pool.

Toyota Motor Corporation spoke to the House Energy and Commerce panel overseeing technology that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should not move forward with a plan to allow expanded parts of the wireless spectrum for Internet access until testing can ensure that it won’t threaten auto safety advances. 

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® announced their honorees for the 2014 Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Awards. The awards honor outstanding design and engineering advancements across 28 consumer electronics product categories.

Using a new technique and approximately $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment, Georgia Tech researchers were able to print advanced, ink-based electrical circuitry on a desktop printer. The circuits were printed on resin-coated paper, PET film and glossy photo paper with silver nanoparticle ink.

A new paradigm for solar cell construction that may ultimately make them less expensive, easier to manufacture and more efficient at harvesting energy from the sun was experimentally demonstrated by a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.

Last week, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Joseph P. Mohorovic as Commission of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have configured inexpensive materials and tuned them to capture microwave signals to design a power-harvesting device with efficiency similar to that of modern solar powers.

A team of Western Michigan University researchers have received a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) to create one of 33 transportation research centers at colleges across the country.

A team of three researchers from University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School  of Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the University of Illinois received a $855,000 grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to take advance 3D printing further.