More than Engineering

Tau Beta Pi’s September 2010 issue of The Bulletin is now available exclusively online at www.tbp.org.

Included in the issue are profiles of the 2010 Tau Beta Pi award winners, details about the 2010 Convention, profiles of newly appointed district directors, Association program updates, and much more.

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Environmental engineering professor Marc Edwards has been in the news lately for his six-year campaign against the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Edwards is a professor at Virginia Tech University and finally won a victory when the CDC announced in August that “it had misled the public about the risk of lead in the District (of Columbia’s) drinking water.”

Read an article from The Washington Post that details Edwards struggles to keep the CDC from using a report that “relaxed concern about lead in the (drinking) water.”

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Increasing numbers of researchers are working on technology to warn drivers about a child left in the back seat of an automobile.

Two engineers from NASA filed a patent on similar technology, in 2001, “after a colleague’s infant died after being left behind in the car.” This article from the USA Today, gives updates on recent research in wake of the deadliest month (August 2010) on record, in which 41 children died in hot cars.

Car companies and advocate groups, such as Kids and Cars, continue to push for reliable technology to be available for all automobiles.

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