Engineering: Making a Difference

The Engineering Innovators without Borders Program (EIWB) at Rowan University’s College of Engineering has students working on projects with a practical purpose. To help design new technologies that can benefit life in underdeveloped countries.

Ed Trapper, NJ E 2011, is part of a student group working on developing a “briquette of crushed peanut shells (that) could provide inexpensive cooking fuel for families in Gambia.” Click here for the full article

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An assistant professor of chemical engineering at Kansas State University has received a NSF CAREER award for his work with graphene.

Vikas Berry will “study a new process to produce graphene quantum dots, which are ultrasmall sheets of carbon atoms.” Read the press release from KSU for more information on how the small particles could lead to improved electronics and optoelectronics.”

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At a recent International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, three Stanford engineering students presented their findings related to demonstrating the technology known as full-duplex wireless.

The new technology could see the end of cellphone dead zones. Read the article profiling the group from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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