Engineering Spotlight: Innovation & Learning

The Chronicle of Higher Education profiled the creation of the “leveraged freedom chair” by Amos G. Winter (MA D 2003).

Winter “built the first version of the tricycle-wheelchair hybrid last summer in Kenya.” Mr. Winter is currently a mechanical engineering student at MIT.

He describes the design of the chair (LFC), which allows for use indoors and on rugged terrain, as, “Think of it as kind of like a crowbar. With a long lever distance, you don’t have to push very hard to create a lot of force back at the wheel.”

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On March 10, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is dedicating its new Applied Engineering and Technology Building.

According to the news release, “the building will support world-class research at UTSA in the fields of physics and engineering.”

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Major General Jeffrey W. Talley, Ph.D., (IN D ’95) admits to having two separate lives.

He is currently the U.S. Army’s chief engineer in charge of rebuilding Baghdad and he was recently hired by Southern Methodist University to become chairman of the University’s department of environmental and civil engineering.

Find out how Mr. Talley has become in high demand and read the full story from The Chronicle of Higher Education to learn his plans for the future.

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