Making News: April 2011

WBNG (CBS-TV) in New York recently highlighted the New York Tau Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, at Binghamton University, for their MindSET activity working with sixth grade students from Ann G. McGuinness Intermediate School.

According to the article, this week the NY Tau Chapter will show students how to build “ultra-simple electric generators.” Learn more about MindSET here

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Vice president of business development and strategic integration at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Nicole Piasecki, was profiled by The Seattle Times.
Click here to read the article

Pisasecki comes from a family of engineers, including her father Frank N. Piasecki (NY E ’40). Frank Piasecki invented one of the first helicopters and was a key figure in the development of the American helicopter industry.

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Dr. William P. King, OH Q ’96, and other researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently published an article in the journal, Nature Nanoscience, related to the “first nanometer-scale temperature measurements of a working graphene transistor.”

The results of the temperature measurements found that graphene’s resistive heating was weaker than its thermo-electric cooling effect at times. Read the full article to learn about the new possibilities of graphene in electronic devices

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