Engineering FYI, Part II: May 2011

Oklahoma State University students are building a space habitat as part of NASA’s first X-Hab challenge. OSU associate professor Jamey Jacobs, OK A ’90, lead the nearly 70 students on the project over the past two semesters.

The University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin are the other finalists designing habitats. The winner “will be taken to Arizona and used at NASA’s field testing lab that simulates the environment on Mars.” Click here for more

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Campus Technology recently published part 1 of an interview with IEEE President Moshe Kam, PA Z ’77, entitled, “Saving Engineering Education.”

Dr. Kam is also the department head and professor of engineering at Drexel University. In the Q&A article, Dr. Kam discusses the transformation of engineering education over the past several decades and the challenges facing the United States to encourage more students to study the STEM fields.

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Jimmy Lin, associate professor at the University of Maryland, is spending his sabbatical working as a programmer for Twitter.

He has been graphing Twitter traffic in an effort to reveal patterns. Read this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education with details, including a graph from the night that Osama bin Laden’s death was announced.

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