Tackling goes high-tech at Dartmouth with new dummies
On the Ivy League campus of Dartmouth College, even the football tackling dummies are smart.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 26, 2015
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News tagged with engineering students
Researchers make innovative use of LEGO
With even preschoolers using computers and video games, students at all levels now expect to modify and control their own experiments and receive immediate feedback. Responding to that trend, a trio of New York University ...
Engineering
Jun 17, 2015
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Cross-country bike trip aims to inspire young scientists
Seven students from Harvard and MIT are cycling across America, stopping in many rural towns to get kids interested in science through hands-on workshops to program computers, launch model rockets and build robots.
Social Sciences
Jun 7, 2015
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Gamers feel the glove: Student team creates feedback device for the hand for virtual environments (w/ Video)
Rice University engineering students are working to make virtual reality a little more real with their invention of a glove that allows a user to feel what they're touching while gaming.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 22, 2015
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Communication devices enable children with disabilities
An interdisciplinary group of Northeastern University students and faculty have combined their knowledge of engineering and physical therapy to design, develop, and then deliver two low-cost communication devices to disabled ...
Engineering
Apr 8, 2015
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Women benefit from working in woman-dominated teams, study shows
For years, educators, policymakers and institutional leaders have sounded an alarm about the fact that fewer girls and women enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields than their male peers, and ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2015
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Wikipedia use—nothing to be ashamed about
Academics and students alike should be making better use of Wikipedia, a major study of digital technology use in Higher Education has recommended.
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2015
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NTU unveils Singapore's first 3-D printed concept car
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students have built Singapore's first urban solar electric car with an innovative 3D-printed body shell that has 150 parts.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 3, 2015
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Study identifies common elements of STEM schools
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics schools vary in many ways, but they share eight major common elements. So finds a nationwide study of 23 STEM schools conducted by the University of Chicago's Outlier Research ...
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2015
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Training the next generation of power engineers
Most people only think about the electricity that powers our homes and gadgets when it isn't there. When the power is humming, we tend to take it for granted. The trouble is, the network that delivers the electricity to keep ...
Engineering
Jan 15, 2015
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