Engineering

Eco-Engineers from The Ohio State University Win 2009 EcoCAR Competition

TORONTO, CANADA, June 12, 2009 -- Today university students from The Ohio State University earned top honors at the 2009 finals of the EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge competition in Toronto, Canada for their design of an Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV). The Ohio State University took first place out of 17 universities in the U.S. and Canada that competed in the first major milestone of this three-year competition which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, General Motors, and many others including the Government of Canada.    » read more »

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 13, 2009) — Car manufacturers aspire to create hydrogen-powered vehicles that could one day allow energy-efficient, cost-effective travel that emits no greenhouse gases or other pollutants. To further that effort, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have devised new combustion strategies for hydrogen engines.

Researchers in Argonne's Center for Transportation Research have built the Modular Automotive Technology Testbed (MATT), an Erector Set-like platform for automotive powertrains in which engineers can swap in and out different engines, transmissions and other core powertrain components. By using MATT, Argonne researchers gain the ability to test a 4-cylinder hydrogen engine on the standard drive cycles.    » read more »

Geneva, Switzerland, 6 February 2008 – The World Economic Forum, through its Engineering & Construction Community and Centre for Strategic Insight, has launched Engineering & Construction: Scenarios to 2020. This publication marks a new phase in an initiative that is based on the need for a long-term, multistakeholder, industry-wide approach to deepen insights into the future of the E&C industry.    » read more »

5-Sep-2007 -- "A hard rain's gonna fall..." So the Bob Dylan song went... but when rain and storm surges fall on lands protected by weak levees, this means trouble…big trouble. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were devastating reminders of this frightening fact. How then can we limit trouble when a levee breaches or, better yet, prevent such a break from ever happening again"    » read more »

9-4-07, AMES, Iowa -- Ten undergraduate programs in Iowa State's College of Engineering have earned reaccreditation from ABET, Inc., the recognized accreditor of university applied science, computing, engineering and technology programs.

The programs are aerospace engineering, agricultural engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, construction engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, materials engineering and mechanical engineering.    » read more »

Sept. 4, 2007, LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Fatigue and Fracture Research Group was extending the lives of steel bridges long before the shocking Aug. 1 collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W Mississippi Bridge.

But in the wake of that deadly disaster, KU’s four-decades-long mission to make bridges safer has added urgency.    » read more »