Princeton’s Mudd library has posted a 1962 instructional film for students who were serving as campus tour guides.
At first what is striking about this film (above) is how much the Princeton undergraduate experience has changed in less than 50 years. For one, thing Princeton students are a much more cosmopolitan group, taking […]
Solar powered airplane takes flight
Seniors Nathan Buch, David Hegermiller, and Trevor O’Neill collaborated to create a solar-powered unmanned aircraft in order to demonstrate the feasibility of flight powered by solar energy alone.
In the video above, the plane — which has a wing span of 20 feet — flies the equivalent of about four stories high.
The construction of […]
Last week Jeremy Kasdin‘s satellite design class, MAE 342, took a little field trip — to Pasadena, California, where they presented their final project to Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers.
The students met with director Charles Elachi, toured JPL facilities, and "spent three hours in their integrated design […]
Senior David Karp, who is majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton, has won a $250,000 no-strings-attached fellowship from the Hertz Foundation. His field of research? Computational fluid dynamics and the design optimization of scramjet-powered vehicles.
Karp plans to do his research at Stanford after studying in Britain on a
Princeton researchers push the frontiers of next-generation fuels
The current issue of PRISM magazine features the research of Chung "Ed" Law, who is the director of a $20 million energy research center at Princeton whose mission is to spur the invention of new, cleaner fuels for the 21st century.
"Think the internal combustion engine is dead?" writes Charles Q […]
Power-generating rubber films developed by two Princeton engineers were covered by a gaggle of media — both new and old — in recent weeks.
A number of media outlets have recently reported on a project spearheaded by Winston Soboyejo, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and colleagues, to develop camel-mounted, solar-powered refrigerators to carry medicines to parts of rural Africa.
Princeton’s Dean of the Faculty, David Dobkin, will join in a discussion this evening at Labyrinth Books on the intersection between poetry, mysticism, and science. Joining the conversation will be Scott McVay, founding director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the poet J.C. Todd and the cultural philosopher William Irwin Thompson. […]
Princeton Engineering’s Alexander Smits seems to have been popular among the media during the annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, which took place last week in Minneapolis.
The Pioneer Press quotes Smits on the aerodynamics of […]
The Guardian newspaper pays tribute to Anthony Evans, "a world-leading materials scientist who pioneered the use of brittle materials in such wide-ranging applications as jet engines, space-shuttle tiles, silicon chips and vehicle armour." Evans, who has died at the age of 66 of cancer, was the author of more than 540 scientific publications […]
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