Engineering FYI, November 2009

Last week, cnet news covered a symposium on geoengineering hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The article summarizes the many topics of discussion related to climate engineering.

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As the EcoCAR Challenge continues in its second and third years, this blog will periodically highlight team news.

Students at North Carolina State University are working on converting a Saturn Vue (GM) to an electric vehicle.

Faculty adviser to the team Terry Gilbert, NY M ’95, explains the goal of the current work, “we’ll have electric motors providing power to the wheels.” Read article for more

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Dr. Paul A. Dellenback, AZ B ’86, has been named the new head of the University of Wyoming Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Dellenback has been a faculty member at UW since 1990. Read news release

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