Category: Engineering
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College Credit: Energy and Climate Change in Montana
Courses are not the same routine classroom experiences you may associate with College. The Wild Rockies Field Instituteis offering seven courses for college credit this year, including Cycle the Rockies: Energy and Climate Change in Montana course, which runs from May 17 – June 12. "Students on this course will explore Montana by bicycle while…
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Engineers enlist weather model to optimize offshore wind plan
From Stanford School of Engineering, WEngineering is interested in the application of modeling to modern issues. Using a sophisticated weather model, environmental engineers at Stanford have defined optimal placement of a grid of four wind farms off the U.S. East Coast. The model successfully balances production at times of peak demand and significantly reduces costly…
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Pasta Graduates From Alphabet Soup to Advanced Geometry
George L. Legendre Reposted from the NYTimes where you can read the full article and see the Multimedia show and related links. Well worth it. Interactive Feature Pasta Geometries George L. Legendre Sander Huisman did, too — and then he wondered about what mathematical equation would…
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Transplant Jaw Made by 3D Printer
Read the full article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16907104 for the related links, articles and comments. A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman’s face in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind. The transplant was carried out in June in the Netherlands, but is only now being publicised. The implant…
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The Answer is Still Out There
The talk about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math being still needed is exemplified by this article off Slashdot today: "According to new research by British historian Tim Maltin, records by several ships in the area where the Titanic sank show atmospheric conditions were ripe for super refraction, a bending of light that caused a false…