Academic Recognition, Bio-engineering, & Innovation

MIT has announced that three scholar-athletes have been named to the ESPN Academic All-America Football Team. Two of them are Tau Beta Pi members:
Read the press release

Brian Doyle, MA B 2011, was a First Team selection as a kick returner and member of the defense. He is a mechanical engineering major.

Will Vega-Brown, MA B 2011, is an offensive lineman majoring in mechanical engineering and physics. He is a First Team selection and is treasurer of the MA Beta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi.

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The Los Angeles Times profiled the recent fluid-dynamics conference in Long Beach. Much of the focus was on bio-inspired engineering.

The article details several research projects including: Aryesh Mukherjee (CT A ’03) and his “synthetic voice box made of rubber glove-like material, capable of imitating a range of birdsongs;” and Dr. Mark Murray (NC G ’86) investigating the use of “saw-tooth-like bumps (tubercles) of humpback whale fins in low-flow water.”

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A group of graduate students from Stanford University and Finland’s Aalto University have “created a prototype of a recyclable laptop.” The invention is called the Bloom laptop and is made of mostly recyclable materials.

As part of the new design, the laptop can be disassembled in under a minute. Click here to read more about the prototype that was part of a corporate-sponsored mechanical engineering class.

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