On Campus: July 2011

Drexel University’s department of electrical and computer engineering head, Dr. Moshe Kam (PA Z ’77), recently answered questions for The Philadelphia Inquirer regarding President Obama’s new National Robotics Initiative.

Read the Q&A here, for more information on Dr. Kam’s assessment of the reality of having robots working as partners in the human environment

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Ivy League engineering schools and other elite institutions in Brazil, China, and India, recently gathered to discuss the formation of a new alliance called CIBI. Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education

Engineering graduate schools are part of all Ivy League institutions. Joseph J. Helble (PA A ’82), dean of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, discusses the opportunity of collaboration on an international scale. “Out of these conversations we started talking about international outreach, to see if there was interest on the part of these international partners in these leading countries where engineering is such an important component of their education system,” said Dr. Helble.

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The Wall Street Journal highlighted the development of drawing power from the fog of electromagnetic energy.

Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering was included for its recent development of printing entire energy-scavenging devices on flexible paper-like polymers. Read the article

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