West Virginia University students win robotics competition
A team of West Virginia University engineering students has won the $750,000 top prize in a NASA robotics competition.
Robotics
Sep 11, 2016
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Pokemon Go: only for the brave in Lagos
It's safe to say Nintendo's hit mobile game Pokemon Go is more suited for playing in the clean, well-lit streets of San Francisco or the impeccably-maintained parks of New York.
Software
Jul 15, 2016
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'Freeform Classroom' could counter engineering's sophomore slump
New research aims to measure the effectiveness of a teaching approach that allows students in challenging engineering courses to access hundreds of instructional videos and animations while encouraging interaction with each ...
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2016
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Students produce pedal powered cinema
A team of engineering students has produced a bicycle powered generator which could power a 55 watt projector for the time required to watch a movie.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 5, 2016
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Preliminary research findings show gender, not race, a factor in college students dropping out of engineering fields
According to recent studies, in colleges and universities up to 60 percent of students drop out or transfer from science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, and more than 50 percent of students pursuing STEM ...
Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2016
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Study focuses on use of instructional videos to aid problem solving
New research aims to help educators quantify how the best students perform problem solving with the aid of instructional videos, a step toward learning how to better coach students in difficult engineering curricula.
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2016
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UVA engineering students to launch cube-shaped satellite into orbit
The missions keep getting higher, longer, farther and faster, as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Christopher Goyne inspires his University of Virginia students to keep pushing the outer edges of the envelope.
Space Exploration
Apr 27, 2016
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Balloon launch takes student research to great heights
On a stunningly clear October morning, a 400-foot-tall NASA high-altitude balloon rose from an airport runway in Fort Sumner, New Mexico and began its ascent into the stratosphere.
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2016
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Engineering students fix common glitch in digitization of books published before 1700
Digitizing books published before 1700 has created an aesthetic as well as quite pragmatic "black-dot problem" in translated texts, with the word "love," for example, showing up as "lo•e."
Computer Sciences
Dec 28, 2015
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Engineering empathy: Faculty works to build empathy into engineering program
When Mark Hain decided to leave his job as an emergency medical technician to pursue a degree in environmental engineering at the University of Georgia, he assumed he would immediately get his hands dirty designing and building ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2015
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