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 […]
Lynn Loo, professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for 2012. Loo is one of 192 young leaders from 59 countries honored this year for their outstanding leadership, professional accomplishments and commitment to society.
Past Young Global […]
Hisashi Kobayashi is the coauthor of a forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press on the fundamentals of probability and random processes.
Princeton Engineering Dean H. Vincent Poor calls it “a one-stop, unified treatment that gives the reader an understanding of the models, methodologies and underlying principles behind many of the most important statistical […]
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awarded Robert Stengel its 2012 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award at an awards ceremony during the 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting this month in Nashville.
John Valasek, director of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, said in his nomination of Stengel […]
Catherine Zandonella recently published a fascinating account of how an international team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists discovered evidence for the extraterrestrial origins of the world’s only known sample of a naturally occurring quasicrystal. She describes the quest undertaken by physicist Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor in […]
Art of Science gets wide international play
Princeton’s 2011 Art of Science exhibit has gotten wide international play on the web and in print. GEO Russia, Maxisciences, 20 minutos, L’espresso, MSNBC, and The New York Times all featured galleries, so be sure to check them out. […]
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 […]
SwoopTEXT sweeps media
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 […]
Times Higher Education has just published its world university rankings, with Princeton ranked third among engineering schools. The top five engineering schools are Caltech, MIT, Princeton, UC-Berkeley, and Stanford (in that order).
Princeton Engineering has experienced extraordinary growth of late. During the past six years, sponsored research […]
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EQN is a blog from Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science that highlights faculty, students and alumni who, through innovation and leadership, are changing the world.
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