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It's got tons of internships, scholarships, and fellowships, plus a feature on manufacturing and another on Science Cheerleaders! http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs155/1102261797598/archive/1116559902564.html
1/6/14 — Penn State Lunar Lion Team completed its first test of cryogenic liquid bipropellant rocket engines at the our Applied Research Laboratory’s high-energy test facility. More about the test.
Lunar Lion is Penn State’s Official Google Lunar X PRIZE team! We’re heading to the moon!
Known as pencil thrusters (cause they’re the size of pencils, errrr), the performance of the rocket engines is being characterized in an agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center (NASA JSC).
Data collected will be sent to NASA JSC and will be a determining factor in choice of rocket engine to be used for Penn State’s lunar lander.
Sometimes the joy of finishing finals makes engineers do unexpected things, like play frisbee in the snow. Brian Syverud, BME MSE Student, plays frisbee with Antone Jain, Environmental Engineering PhD Student, on North Campus.
You may not have known this, but the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program has hundreds of open-ended grants for students who wish to study and travel abroad. And they’re not only for English teachers and language students.
As a recently minted biomedical engineering Ph.D. in 2010, Kara Spiller didn’t think she’d be immersed in the culture of a small town in Portugal for eight months as a Fulbright student. Nor did she imagine that a Portuguese lab would even be interested in in taking on an undergraduate from the U.S. for a short-term stay.
But international labs love Americans, Spiller found. After winning a Fulbright, she designed tissue engineering scaffolds at the University of Minho.
Researchers at the Univ. of Colorado at Boulder have successfully added a fourth dimension to their printing technology, opening up exciting possibilities for the creation and use of adaptive, composite materials in manufacturing, packaging and biomedical applications.
A team led by H. Jerry Qi,...
Undergrads at Rice University took a semester long project and turned it into an inspiring two-year challenge to build a robotic arm for a teenager with osteogenesis imperfecta.
A new instrument called ArTeMiS has been successfully installed on APEX — the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment.
APEX is a 12-metre diameter telescope located high in the Atacama Desert, which operates at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths — between infrared light and radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum — providing a valuable tool for astronomers to peer further into the Universe.
The new camera has already delivered a spectacularly detailed view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula.
MIT maps PV potential for Cambridge, MA | Green Futures Magazine
A new 3D map covering 17,000 rooftops in Cambridge, Massachusetts, means communities can estimate the benefits of installing photovoltaic panels on a particular building at a glance. The Mapdwell Project, developed by MIT’s Sustainable Design Lab, combines Google satellite imagery with light detection and ranging data. It improves on previous models by taking account of roof shapes, physical obstructions and weather conditions offering a more accurate calculation of potential hourly solar energy production.
Twitter Q&A with NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program is holding a live Twitter Q&A on Wednesday, Sept. 4 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. EST for applicants and/or reference writers. This is an opportunity to ask questions about the 2014 program solicitation and application process.
You may follow the conversation and ask questions via the @nsfgrfp handle or the #grfp hashtag. We look forward to assisting you!
Construction Helmet Sensors Detect the Onset of CO Poisoning
Research calling for the use of a wearable computing system installed in a helmet to protect construction workers from carbon monoxide poisoning, a serious lethal threat in this industry, has garnered the Virginia Tech investigators a Best Paper Award from a prestigious scientific and engineering community.
This award will be presented at the August 17-21, 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Automation Science and Engineering.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/08/construction-helmet-sensors-detect-onset-co-poisoning
I don’t wanna get too technical, but I thought it was pretty cool.
President Barack Obama, after playing with an energy-generating soccer ball created by Harvard students. Watch the video on BBC News. (via harvardseas)
And in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/02/obama-kicks-juggles-soccket-ball-for-african-power/
Printed Rocket Parts Rival Traditional in Fire Tests
What can survive blazing temperatures of almost 6,000 F without melting? What did not break apart at extreme pressures? What is made by a new process that forms a complex part in just one piece? What takes less than three weeks to go from manufacturing to testing? What can reduce the costs of expensive rocket parts by 60 percent or more?
Answer: 3D printed parts.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/07/printed-rocket-parts-rival-traditional-fire-tests