Today’s San Diego Business Journal reports on a new self-correcting golf ball from Polara whose design was influenced by wind tunnel experiments conducted by Princeton’s Alexander Smits, chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
“The secret behind the science is the dimple pattern,” David Felker, Polara’s chief technology […]
As part of its “Innovation Nation” series, the Science Channel recently featured new laser printing research conducted by Craig Arnold, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton. The novel methods showcased on the Science Channel may open the door to new printing […]
Pixar’s David Laur ’84 is awarded Oscar
David Laur ’84 recently won a Sci-Tech Academy Award for his behind-the-scenes work turning complex 3-D models into two-dimensional movie frames for Pixar. A software engineer, Laur received a Technical Achievement Award for his role in developing Pixar’s Alfred system, which the Academy cites as being “the first […]
MSNBC ran a story on the Innovation section of its website about a laser-sensing technology developed by Richard Miles and three other researchers from Princeton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Arthur Dogariu, a research scholar and the lead author on the paper, and James Michael, a doctoral student; and Marlan Scully, a lecturer with the rank of professor who also is a professor of physics at Texas A&M University.
Video profile of the blending of engineering and dance in “Flock Logic”, a project co-led by Princeton Engineering Professor Naomi Leanard.
What happens when humans behave as if they were schooling fish or swarming insects or flocking birds?
Well, we are about to find out. Engineering professor Naomi Ehrich Leonard ’85 and choreographer Susan Marshall are conspiring with a creative group of undergraduates to host
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California recently led a U.S. delegation of government representatives, technology company executives and venture capital investors to Russia. Among the governor’s posse: Princeton Engineering alumnus Don Dixon, co-founder of Palo Alto-based Trident […]
The Daily Princetonian recently highlighted annual summer working trips that the university’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been making since 2004 to the Peruvian village of Huamanzaña.
EWB projects there have ranged from improving communal bathroom facilities to installing solar power generators.
Every proposal for community improvement […]
Princeton Engineering graduate John Dabiri, now a researcher at CalTech, has been named a MacArthur Fellow — an honor that comes with a no-strings-attached “genius grant” of $500,000.
Dabiri is a biophysicist whose work draws on a wide range of fields, from theoretical fluid dynamics to evolutionary biology. He studies the locomotion of […]
Project X: ‘a slush fund for creativity and risk-taking’
This weekend the Star-Ledger had terrific coverage of Project X, described by funder Lynn Shostack as “a slush fund for creativity and risk-taking.”
The Project X grants underwrite unconventional engineering research projects that are unlikely to find funding elsewhere.
The Star-Ledger piece features a video by Nyier Abdou on Edgar Choueiri, who has […]
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