Sentences with phrase «engineering professor»

I am a structural engineering professor and conduct research in earthquake engineering and other hazards.

One of the things that struck me in discussions with other engineering professors around the country was how many students had little experience in actually building things.

Ted Hartwig, a mechanical engineering professor at Texas A & M University, who has been working on a U.S. Army project to develop large - bore amorphous - alloy ammunition, counsels patience.

«The way we produce electricity today pollutes the environment,» said Henry, a mechanical engineering professor at Georgia Tech.

By adding a specially patterned layer of silica glass to the surface of ordinary solar cells, a team of researchers led by Shanhui Fan, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University in California has found a way to let solar cells cool themselves by shepherding away unwanted thermal radiation.

Charley Driscoll, a Syracuse University environmental engineering professor who grew up along the lake and has studied it, said this weekend's bloom was the worst he can recall.

«This is the great hope — to be the biorefinery of the future,» says Jefferson Tester, a chemical engineering professor at MIT.

«LENR is real experimentally, and not understood theoretically,» says David J. Nagel, an electrical and computer engineering professor at George Washington University and a former research manager at the Naval Research Laboratory.

The event featured Mark J. Jacobson, a Stanford University engineering professor who has focused for years on identifying renewable - energy menus that can, in theory, entirely substitute for fossil fuels at the level of states, the nation and the planet.

Student - built and operated, under the supervision of civil engineering professor Dan Ames, the VuePod is changing the way engineers are viewing environmental engineering challenges.

The team led by biomedical engineering professor Charles A. Gersbach used a mouse model suffering from a mutated exon of the dystrophin gene, programming CRISPR / CAS9 — a bacterial - protein derived process of cutting and pasting DNA portions — to snip out the defective exon.

Sharma and Zelisko's experimental collaborators at Rice University, led by engineering professor Pulickel Ajayan, fabricated the graphene nitride sheet devices.

Recent analysis from Stanford engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson finds Hawaii can economically meet 100 % of its energy needs with 14 % residential rooftop PV, 9.7 % PV power plants, 7 % concentrating solar power plants, 12 % onshore wind, 16 % offshore wind, 9 % commercial and government rooftop PV, 1 % wave energy, 30 % geothermal, 0.3 % hydroelectric, and 1 % tidal energy.

«Several years ago, my colleague David Miller carefully analyzed power consumption in computers, and the results were striking,» said Vuckovic, referring to electrical engineering Professor David Miller.

«Wind power's ecological footprint is so small — a million times smaller than ethanol's — that if all the cars driven in the United States were battery - electric, they could be fueled by wind turbines whose total land footprint, not counting spacing in between, takes up less than 1.2 square miles, Stanford University environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson found.»

«Storm surges globally lead to considerable loss of life and billions of dollars of damages each year, and yet we still have a limited understanding of the likelihood and associated uncertainties of these extreme events both today and in the future,» said Thomas Wahl, an assistant engineering professor in the University of Central Florida who led the study.

In 2004 Francis Tay, a mechanical engineering professor in Singapore, invented the MEMSwear device — a tiny silicon - based sensor embedded in a shirt that notices if the wearer has a fall and then communicates an alert to a cell phone or computer via the wireless Bluetooth standard.

Paul Moller, a former engineering professor at the University of California at Davis, has spent all of his money and more than 40 years trying to build a flying car.

Now engineering professor Nicholas Kotov and his team from the University of Michigan have created a process similar to our bivalve friends that allows the creation of materials one nano - layer at a time, with impressive results.

Chemical engineer professor Michael Egan began his career in Canada with the Hiram Walker Group, famous for their Canadian Club whisky, and cut his teeth working at distilleries in Illinois and Ontario.

«We're breathing in this soup of stuff that is not the dominant part of our atmosphere but present in sizable quantities,» says environmental engineering professor William Nazaroff of the University of California at Berkeley.

An unnamed nuclear engineering professor told local media his once thriving department is now «like a funeral parlor.»

How terrain shapes the wind But for wind turbines, it's not just the air but the ground that affects their output, a fact that turbine designers have largely neglected, according to Hui Hu, an aerospace engineering professor at Iowa State University.

The researchers, led by U. of I. electrical and computer engineering professor Daniel Wasserman, published their findings in the journal Advanced Materials.

Sometimes the simplest mechanisms are the most difficult to reproduce, said Janna Nawroth, a graduate student in the lab of Caltech engineering professor John Dabiri, who won a 2010 MacArthur fellowship for his research on jellyfish.

With the help of BYU chemical engineering professor Bill Pitt, Zhao was able to mathematically model the energy cost of the water molecules and fog droplets, showing that the shape and size of the nano - grooves lowered the energy cost to condense water and capture fog from the atmosphere onto the awn.

«We would argue that whatever happens in the human body is going to be quite efficient, quite rapid,» said University of Illinois cell and developmental biology professor Fei Wang, who led the study with visiting scholar Qiuhao Qu and materials science and engineering professor Jianjun Cheng.

Using two ounces of salt water and some muscle, University of Iowa engineering professor Craig Just can make enough bleach to kill the disease - causing microorganisms in five gallons of water.

Graig Spolek, a mechanical engineering professor from Portland State University in Oregon, set up an experiment to quantify these vague terms.

For one of the demonstrated applications of nanotweezers, Zheng worked with UT Austin chemical engineering professor Brian Korgel, who this year was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his breakthrough work in nanocrystals and nanowires.

My structural engineering professor told us: «Gentlemen we design bridges with the stress formulas we assume are correct, but always keep in the back of your mind that if the bridge could laugh, he would laugh».

Thomas Webster, an associate engineering professor at Brown University, and Brown researcher Dongwoo Khang, along with Grace Park, a research scientist (and one of Webster's former PhD students) at Becton, Dickinson and Company, a Franklin Lakes, N.J. — medical technology firm, say they grew cartilage cells by placing chondrocytes (cartilage - forming cells) and carbon nanotubes together on a polycarbonate urethane surface.

Graduate student Reshmina William, left, and civil and environmental engineering professor Ashlynn Stillwell pause on the green roof over the Business Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois.

Led by materials science and engineering professor Kristopher Kilian, chemistry professor Jeffrey Moore and graduate student Joshua Grolman, the team published its results in the journal Advanced Materials.

UAlberta materials engineering postdoctoral fellow Triratna Muneshwar and materials engineering professor Ken Cadien have developed a new method of making thin films.

But for postdoc - turned - entrepreneur Riccardo Signorelli and his mentor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) electrical engineering professor Joel Schindall, the stimulus money looks more like a launching pad — one that they hope will blast a technology they have developed toward the goal of making a «transformative» difference in America's energy future.

«As engineering professors, we want to see the things we create in the lab become successful products,» Liang said.

«Every 30 to 40 years, the area would have a small slide that would come down and block the river,» University of Illinois civil and environmental engineering professor Tim Starkk said.

«There are always dynamics and the water molecules must exchange their positions, and so that's why it's complicated,» said UCSB chemical engineering professor Jacob Israelachvili, whose surface forces apparatus (SFA) measured interaction forces between silica surfaces across water.

In an effort to reduce the catalysis world's dependence on this highly reactive and versatile — but also quite expensive — metal, UW - Madison chemical engineering Professor Manos Mavrikakis and his collaborators have turned to the nanoscale structure of particles, arranging atoms to achieve more potent chemical reactions while using less material.

University of Utah College of Engineering University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor Rajesh Menon holds up the prototype of the first flat thin camera lens that he and his team developed.

Illinois civil and environmental engineering professor Wen - Tso Liu leads a team of researchers who are studying how microbial communities assemble within indoor plumbing systems.

«Bringing this type of electronic immune system to integrated - circuit chips opens up a world of possibilities,» said Ali Hajimiri, a Caltech engineering professor.»

«While implementing simple programs in cells will never rival the speed or accuracy of computation in silicon, genetic programs can interact with the cell's environment directly,» said senior author and UW electrical engineering professor Eric Klavins.

University of California, Davis engineering professor Andy Frank built a plug - in hybrid from the ground up in 1972 and has since built seven others, one of which gets up to 250 mpg.

Some in the private sector, like Gembam, and University of California - Davis engineering professor Andy Frank, aren't waiting.