Engineering FYI: September 2010

A press release details a new partnership between the Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland.

As a result, a new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational outreach initiative has been established in Baltimore “focused on inspiring young girls’ interests in engineering and science-related activities and studies.” The new program center should be ready for occupancy later this fall.

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A delegation from China’s largest oil and gas pipeline construction and engineering firm recently met on the Louisiana Tech University campus “to discuss ongoing research and its possible applications in the field.”

According to the article from The News Star, the meetings were a first step in what Tech hopes will lead to a formal collaboration between the company and university. Dr. Stan Napper (LA G ’80), dean of Tech’s college of engineering and science, released a statement about the new collaboration as part of the university’s Trenchless Technology Center.

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At a recent open house at the new Maryland Robotics Center, a former student displayed technology related to brain wave control of unmanned flight vehicles.

Using only a headset controller, the demonstration showed “how a quadrotor helicopter could be controlled in altitude and direction simply by either concentrating intensely or relaxing the mind in a sleep-like state.” Read more here

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