Engineering On Campus, September 2011

An electrical engineering professor at the University of Utah is developing a new wireless sensor network “that can detect if a patient stops breathing during surgery.”

According to the article, there are several benefits of the new technology, including that the new technique costs less than existing methods of monitoring breathing and that there are now tubes or wires that need to be connected to the patient.

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Earlier this week, Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering hosted an orientation camp for freshmen engineering students. Click here to read more

Dean Paul Johnson (CA L ’83) on one of the ideas behind the camp, “Traditionally, students have had to get through two or three years of classes before engineering schools started letting them feel like they might be good enough to be let into the club.”

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Rutgers University and UCLA have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) “to develop intelligent metropolitan traffic management technology that reduces urban traffic congestion and air pollution.”

Read the article to learn about the planned development of technology.

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