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Saving lives, gathering data: Laura Ray’s ‘cool robot’

By Steven Schultz On March 12, 2013 · In mechanical and aerospace

Engi­neer­ing alumna Laura Ray, now a pro­fes­sor of mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing at Dart­mouth, and her stu­dents helped cre­ate Yeti, a robot that is mak­ing Arc­tic and Antarc­tic explo­ration safer and more effective.

Yeti uses ground-penetrating radar to map crevasses, the deadly gaps hid­den in ice fields that have been the bane of […]

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Mike McAlpine named one of ’20 mightiest minds’

By Teresa Riordan On January 30, 2013 · In innovation, mechanical and aerospace

Red Bul­letin mag­a­zine has named Mike McAlpine one of the world’s 20 might­i­est minds. He is in good com­pany:  Stephen Hawk­ing and Tim Berners-Lee also made the cut.

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Princeton Fung Global Forum contemplates the future of the city

By Teresa Riordan On January 29, 2013 · In civil engineering, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Prince­ton Fung Global Forum con­fer­ence on the future of the city takes place Jan­u­ary 30 to Feb­ru­ary 1 this year in Shang­hai, China.  The con­fer­ence show­cases the work of a num­ber of Prince­ton Engi­neer­ing fac­ulty and affil­i­ated fac­ulty, includ­ing Howard Stone, James Smith, Sigrid Adri­aenssens, Branko […]

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New Yorker features Choueiri’s 3D sound

By Teresa Riordan On January 23, 2013 · In innovation, mechanical and aerospace, Princeton Engineering alumni

Adam Gop­nik, writ­ing in the cur­rent New Yorker, fea­tures the redoubtable Edgar Choueiri *91 and his “quest for 3-D record­ing and other mys­ter­ies of sound.” You have to be a sub­scriber to read the whole piece. Here is an abstract.

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Spring Berman ’05 wins Grolier poetry prize

By Teresa Riordan On January 22, 2013 · In mechanical and aerospace, Princeton Engineering alumni

Spring Berman ’05 has won the Grolier Dis­cov­ery Award for her book of poetry “All Time Accept­able.” The award is bestowed by the ven­er­a­ble Grolier Poetry Book Shop at Har­vard Square. Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Berman’s men­tor in mechan­i­cal and aero­space engi­neer­ing, reports that the book […]

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Holmes, Massey named inaugural AMS fellows

By Teresa Riordan On November 12, 2012 · In mechanical and aerospace, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Prince­ton Engi­neer­ing pro­fes­sors Philip Holmes and William Massey have been named to the inau­gural class of Fel­lows of the Amer­i­can Math­e­mat­i­cal Soci­ety, the world’s largest and most influ­en­tial soci­ety ded­i­cated to math­e­mat­i­cal research, schol­ar­ship, and education.

Holmes is the Eugene Hig­gins Pro­fes­sor of Mechan­i­cal […]

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Dream team of materials scientists wins DOE grant to tackle fusion challenges

By Teresa Riordan On July 30, 2012 · In Andlinger Center, chemical engineering, energy, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Uncategorized

Prince­ton engi­neers have won a highly com­pet­i­tive grant of $1.2 mil­lion from the U.S. Department of Energy to col­lab­o­rate with the Prince­ton Plasma Physics Lab in order to tackle mate­ri­als sci­ence chal­lenges in the cre­ation of fusion energy.

One key chal­lenge is how to con­tain the hot plasma that fuels fusion power […]

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Littman to demonstrate iconic technology from early 20th century

By Teresa Riordan On July 19, 2012 · In mechanical and aerospace, Uncategorized

The Engi­neer­ing School is host­ing an ice cream social August 21 at 4 p.m. to show­case Pro­fes­sor Michael Littman’s dis­play of iconic (and beau­ti­ful) engi­neer­ing objects from the early 20th cen­tury. Littman, a pro­fes­sor of mechan­i­cal and aero­space engi­neer­ing, will give a short talk and demon­stra­tion of early tele­phones, radios, […]

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Zi Chen *12 wins prestigious fellowship to ETH Zurich

By Teresa Riordan On July 5, 2012 · In mechanical and aerospace, Princeton Engineering alumni, PRISM

Zi Chen, who earned a Ph.D. in mechan­i­cal and aero­space engi­neer­ing from Prince­ton this year, has won a pres­ti­gious five-year fel­low­ship to ETH Zurich, where he will inves­ti­gate how one-dimensional infor­ma­tion coded in DNA trans­lates into three-dimensional shapes.

Chen is one of eight new fel­lows selected for the Soci­ety in […]

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‘Smart teeth’ invention makes cover of New York Times magazine

By Teresa Riordan On June 4, 2012 · In electrical engineering, mechanical and aerospace

The New York Times Mag­a­zine this week fea­tures a wire­less “tooth tat­too” devel­oped at Prince­ton that detects harm­ful bacteria.

The sliver-thin device — made of silk, graphene, and a tiny antenna — is applied to the tooth much like a child’s stick-on tat­too. It can detect bac­te­ria asso­ci­ated with not just cav­i­ties but, perhaps […]

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