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Starshade deploys for first time

By Teresa Riordan On September 26, 2013 · In innovation, mechanical and aerospace

Check out this awesome stop-motion video of a starshade. Our own Jeremy Kasdin, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is one of the principal researchers on the project, which will aid in the search for planets outside our own solar system.

“This is the first time we’ve actually seen this thing deploy,” Kasdin […]

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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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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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New book on inventions that have changed the world

By Teresa Riordan On January 18, 2013 · In chemical engineering, engineering education, innovation

James Wei has written a new book on Great Inventions that Changed the World. The book is written for a lay audience and covers inventions in a wide range of fields, from medicine and communications to music and painting.

The book grows out of an freshman course Wei taught at Princeton […]

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Akamai acquires company powered by Princeton technology

By Teresa Riordan On November 15, 2012 · In computer science, electrical engineering, innovation, Keller Center, Princeton Engineering alumni, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Uncategorized

Akamai, the leading company in the field of cloud computing, announced this week it has acquired Verivue, a company that relies on a private content delivery network invented at Princeton.

Verivue’s infrastructure is largely built around a system designed by CoBlitz, a company that grew out of a Princeton research project for […]

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Wireless solar charging for portable electronics

By Teresa Riordan On June 21, 2012 · In electrical engineering, innovation

Sounds to good to be true: Naveen Verma and colleagues are developing a technology “that could lead to widespread wireless charging stations for all our electronics.”

Verma, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is interviewed by IEEE Spectrum in this report.

Image courtesy Warren Rieutort-Louis.

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Princeton Alumni Weekly features cool robotics

By Teresa Riordan On December 1, 2011 · In electrical engineering, innovation, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Mark Bernstein, writing in the current issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly features some very cool robotics coming out of Princeton Engineering. Check out:

• Robert Stengel‘s robo shop where “students are designing machines that seem to have minds of their own”

• a submersible arm invented by Ben Rush […]

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Robert J. Moore ’06 on the power of data

By Teresa Riordan On November 16, 2011 · In innovation, Keller Center, Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Last weekend Robert J. Moore, co-founder of R.J. Metrics and a 2006 Princeton Engineering graduate, was in town to be a judge at a startup networking event organized by students

Momchil Tomov, Ryan Shea, and Vivian Qu.

If you missed the event, you may want to take in this TEDx […]

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SwoopTEXT sweeps media

By Teresa Riordan On October 20, 2011 · In chemical engineering, engineering education, innovation, Keller Center, School of Engineering and Applied Science

SwoopTEXT,  a student communication platform invented by two 2011 Princeton graduates that enables instant and targeted group communication via text message, is getting a lot of play in the media of late.

The platform was Invented by Michael Perl, who majored in chemistry, and Michael Keaton, who majored in chemical and […]

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Powell Lab algorithms help Schneider National save millions

By Teresa Riordan On August 26, 2011 · In innovation, Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Forbes magazine’s September 12 issue has a nice piece by Helen Coster on how trucking company Schneider National decided to invest in a fleet-wide “tactical planning simulator” that used algorithms developed by Princeton Engineering’s Warren Powell to “mimic the decision making of human dispatchers on an inhumanly large scale.”

“What interested […]

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