Engineering Innovation

A team of students and professors at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a public pothole project “to battle the city’s (Pittsburgh) pitted pavement.”

Citizens are asked to snap pictures of potholes with their iPhones and upload them to a website. The map on the website can pinpoint the location of the pothole and be used to alert maintenance workers.
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The University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering has announced a partnership with IBM Corp. “that will allow it to build the most advanced university-based computer chip manufacturing line in the world.”

According to the article,the NanoCollege will have the capability to pre-manufacture 28-nanometer technology chips for use in cellphones and personal computers. This will allow the school to test out designs for manufacturers and become a ready path to commercialization for the next-generation technologies and manufacturing techniques.

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At the recent Department of the Navy’s national Chief of Naval Research Challenge, an engineering professor from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln placed among the top ten winners with his “Miniature and Durable Fiber-Optic Microphone for Accurate Measurement of High-Level Noise” idea.

The proposal would allow for more accurate assessment of noise exposure using a fiber-optic microphone.
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