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    One year later, students look back  Apr 16, 2008
    Among the lives lost was Penn State alumnus Jeremy Herbstritt, who was a civil engineering graduate student at Virginia Tech. Herbstritt's father, Michael, who works at Penn State's Office of Physical Plant, declined in an e-mail to discuss the anniversary. (Daily Collegian, PA)

    VA Tech Students Lobby to Carry Guns  Apr 16, 2008
    "A lot of people don't understand the aspect of carrying for self defense," said Ken Stanton, a 30-year-old engineering graduate student at Virginia Tech, and the head of the Vermont chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. University policy prohibits students or employees, except campus police, from carrying concealed weapons, though visitors who have a valid permit are allowed to keep their guns. (ABC News)

    General: Communications key to war  Apr 15, 2008
    Gen. Edward Cardon, a U.S. Military academy engineering graduate. During a phone interview from his overseas post, the brigadier general, an El Paso, Texas, native, praised both American and Iraqi military personnel for the job they are doing. (Daytona Beach News Journal)

    Robot Sets Record For Distance Walking  Apr 12, 2008
    Accompanying the Ranger are, from left, engineering graduate students Andrey Turovsky and Greg Stiesberg; Jason Cortell, manager of the Biorobotics and Locomotion Lab; and Bram Hendriksen, a visiting graduate student from the Netherlands. (Credit: Lindsay France/University Photography). (Science Daily)

    Olympics come to ASU  Apr 7, 2008
    " Bearat, a first-year bioengineering graduate student, joined the Coalition when it was formed in 2004. "I just love people especially different cultures and people from around the world," she said. Chetan Patel, also a first-year bioengineering graduate student, started volunteering for the club two years ago and joined as the events coordinator this year. Getting the Olympics event together starts with sending out e-mails to all ASU's international students and posting flyers. Students then... (Web Devil, AZ)

    Veishea 2008 map  Apr 6, 2008
    93 Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Organization, E4. 95 and 96 College of Engineering, E4. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)

    IPICO announces senior management appointments  Apr 4, 2008
    An electronic engineering graduate and resident of South Africa, he most recently was Executive Director of Worldwide Capital Private Equity, one of IPICO's original investors. Prior to his involvement with Worldwide and IPICO, Mr. Human built his own telecommunications business internationally and earned a listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1998. (Canada Newswire)

    Honda appoints new president and VP  Apr 2, 2008
    A chemical engineering graduate of Indiana State University in the US, Azman started his career in the banking industry. After spending five years at one of the country's premier banks, he made his foray into the automotive industry in 1995 with Usahasama Proton & Diversified Resources Bhd. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)

    U.S. 10th District House of Representatives Steve Ivester  Apr 1, 2008
    I am an engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used my VA education benefits to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School. Editor's note: All candidate profiles are published as they were received and were not edited by the News-Topic. (Lenoir News Topic, NC)

    Bidding for a bigger piece of the pie  Mar 28, 2008
    During the past decade, he evolved from a University of Toronto computer engineering graduate and founder of a telecom upstart in 1997 to the head of a company that took home $125-million in revenue last year. Taking on the big phone boys has become a way of life for Mr. Lacavera. (Globe and Mail -- Business)

    The Amazing Race  Mar 27, 2008
    Nii Armar, 23, is an MIT aerospace engineering graduate student who, along with undergrads Robyn Allen and Anna Jaffe and 2007 grad Jonathan Krones, runs an international open-source project of students trying to build a 200-mpg car. "Anna and Robyn had the original idea: They went to the 2005 World Solar Challenge, where teams build cars to cross Australia, and saw 40 very similar vehicles. They thought, Maybe we could get these people together to collaborate. Vehicle Design Summit 1.0 brought... (FastCompany)

    Fueled by opportunities: Triad has key roles in state's drive for alternative fuels  Mar 22, 2008
    D. (left), program director, North Carolina A T State University biological engineering, works with environmental engineering graduate student James Croonenberghs in the lab. Croonenberghs project is transforming duckweed into biofuels like ethanol, biodiesel and heavy oil using cellulosic ethanol technology, lipid extraction techniques, and thermochemical liquefaction. (Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)

    Stanford researchers developing 3-D camera with 12,616 lenses  Mar 20, 2008
    But what if your digital camera saw the world through thousands of tiny lenses, each a miniature camera unto itself" Youd get a 2-D photo, but youd also get something potentially more valuable: an electronic depth map containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture, a kind of super 3-D. Stanford electronics researchers, lead by electrical engineering Professor Abbas El Gamal, are developing such a camera, built around their multi-aperture image sensor. Theyve shrunk... (EurekAlert!)

    Second man arrested in killing of UNC student  Mar 18, 2008
    He has also been charged in the Jan. 18 shooting of Abhijit Mahato, a Duke engineering graduate student who was found dead in his apartment at The Anderson Apartments. But Lovett had not previously been named as a suspect in that murder. (East Tennessean, TN)

    Running on empty, and then some  Mar 17, 2008
    Jones is an electrical and computer engineering graduate student. Page 1 of 1. (The Daily Texan, TX)

    Hacking research noticed  Mar 15, 2008
    Manufacturers and governments recently have begun to take notice of a University Engineering graduate student's research that cracked the encryption code on radio frequency identification chips, commonly used in wireless security passes and subway cards ... David Evans, who is Engineering graduate student Karsten Nohl'sfaculty adviser, said Nohl and two German collaborators hoped that "by understanding why systems fail, people will learn how to build more secured systems.". (The Cavalier Daily, VA)

    News Bytes of the Week—Flooding the Grand Canyon to Save a Fish  Mar 8, 2008
    The idea of using the steel to generate power came from one of Swansea's engineering graduate students, who was looking into how sunlight interacts with titanium dioxide, often found in paints and dyes. The team realized that if they used solar cells made from titanium dioxide dyes, which were first created by Michael Graetzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, such cells could coat steel and generate electricity. (Scientific American)

    Study traces tech link to radical '70s groups  Mar 8, 2008
    Ahmed Mohamed, an engineering graduate and teaching assistant at the University of South Florida, and Youssef Megahed, an engineering student, were indicted on federal charges of carrying explosives across state lines. On Sept. 5, three men were arrested for allegedly planning attacks against Americans and U.S. military facilities in Germany. (EETimes)

    Time to Look  Feb 29, 2008
    Instead of being applicants for jobs, the NIU electrical engineering graduate student alumni were the interviewers. We don't understand why we were so nervous last year, Shrotriya said. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)

    Next-best Thing To Being On Mars  Feb 29, 2008
    Engineering graduate students Zahra Khan and Phillip Cunio, from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, began their stay at the Utah facility late Sunday, Feb. 17. Cunio is working on a project to develop a "smart" carrier to be used for research fieldwork in remote expeditions such as planetary exploration. (Science Daily)

    Griggs-Jany Engagement  Feb 28, 2008
    The future groom is an engineering graduate from Mizzou and is employed by MoDOT in Jefferson City. He is the son of Russ and Jacky Jany of Union. (Missourian Publishing, MO)

    More news reports...  Feb 27, 2008
    Petroleum engineering graduate student Fizza Aliyeva talks with Traci Wilson, class of 2002, about her country, Azerbaijan. . (The Battalion, TX)

    Officer 'could have been saved'  Feb 27, 2008
    Fencing champion Lt Douglas was a high flying former public schoolgirl and engineering graduate from Newcastle University who dreamed of reaching the highest rank in the navy. She went to sea to follow in the footsteps of her father Christopher, a merchant navy officer who was drowned in a shipwreck when she was 13. (BBC News)

    Frank Piasecki, 88; pioneered the tandem-rotor helicopter  Feb 25, 2008
    Piasecki was a 1940 aeronautical engineering graduate of New York University and that same year cofounded a company, P-V Engineering Forum, near Philadelphia. He chose the name, he told The New York Times, "because if you used the word helicopter, people thought you were absolutely nuts.". (Boston Globe)

    Daytona win cleared out cobwebs for Penske team  Feb 25, 2008
    No one questions the fact that the 30-year-old engineering graduate from Purdue University is fast. Newman already ranks 11th on the all-time list of Sprint Cup pole winners with 42. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)

    Ogden's middle school takes third at Iowa Championship at ISU  Feb 23, 2008
    The Power Pirates were sponsored by the Iowa Society of Women Engineers, coached by Mona Satre and Mary Kuil and mentored by Jerry Stoner, ISU engineering graduate student. The Ogden Reporter 2008. (Ogden Reporter, IA)

    A hemisphere away, students reach out to fix water problems  Feb 22, 2008
    AMAZON-ING: Research assistant and civil engineering graduate student Michal Ziv-El is pictured in front of the Biodesign building Wednesday evening. Ziv-El will be traveling to Ecuador with a few other ASU students to help design infrastructure to improve sanitation in a remote village. (Web Devil, AZ)

    Once-reticent Newman now enjoying extra attention  Feb 19, 2008
    native, who nipped Stewart for a last-lap victory Sunday at Daytona International Speedway, has showered reporters with insightful, confessional and charming anecdotes since winning the Great American Race another sign the structural vehicle engineering graduate of Purdue is letting his guard down. Newman, whom wife Krissie describes as "a quirky engineer and a smart (aleck)", has been outspoken and blunt since entering Cup in 2002. (USA Today -- Sports)

    Penske finally gets Daytona victory on 23rd try  Feb 18, 2008
    The laughter stopped in 1972, just three years after Penskes arrival, when Mark Donohue an engineering graduate like Newman gave Penske his first Indy win. Penskes teams have won more than 200 races and 20 national championships, including 12 Indy car titles. (MSNBC -- Sports)

    Indianapolis 500 master Roger Penske finally gets Daytona 500 victory on his 23rd try  Feb 18, 2008
    Penske arrived in Indy in 1969, stopping the laughter in 1972 when Mark Donohue -- like Newman an engineering graduate -- gave Penske his first Indy win. In an interview a year ago, after his team fell short at Daytona, the now 70-year-old Penske said, "My commitment is the same. I wouldn't go racing if I didn't want to be competitive and win overall. I've been to enough races, I've won a lot of races, a lot of poles and championships. I'm fully committed to this.". (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)

    Profile: A Manuel for success  Feb 18, 2008
    It is these attributes that have enabled the civil engineering graduate to put his imprint on an economy in transition and become a key force in the country's transformation to a democratic entity. The man's lack of formal indoctrination may well have been a hidden asset as in the years since that fateful Mandela cabinet meeting, he has consistently led cabinet report cards and public opinion polls the man who the World Economic Forum selected as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" in 1994 also... (iAfrica.com)

    Thin-film 'Micro Pharmacy' Can Be Implanted To Deliver Controlled Drug Doses To Targeted Locations  Feb 15, 2008
    From left, Broad Institute postdoctoral associate Kris Wood, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering Paula Hammond and chemical engineering graduate student Dan Schmidt show the thin film they have developed. The film releases drugs and other chemical agents upon application of a small electrical field. (Science Daily)

    The Firing Line: 2/15  Feb 15, 2008
    Joel Fagin, a mechanical engineering graduate student, responded the following day with a Firing Line expressing his opinions about recycling. This is a great example of how the Opinion Page serves as an open forum for thoughtful and energetic debate. (The Daily Texan, TX)

    A pharmacy in a nanotechnology-based thin film  Feb 15, 2008
    Hammond worked with her colleagues in which include , now a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, , now a postdoctoral associate at the University of Toronto, and , a chemical engineering graduate student. So how did these researchers make their films. (ZDNet Blogs)

    Scientists learn adhesive lessons from geckos  Feb 11, 2008
    Other members of the Berkeley team include mechanical engineering graduate student Jongho Lee and Bryan Schubert, a graduate researcher in electrical engineering and computer science. Former UC Berkeley student Carmel Majidi, now a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, also contributed to the work. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)

    Satyam builds talent pool for high-end engineering  Feb 11, 2008
    Spread over four to six months, SEED will help shrink grooming time of an engineering graduate by offering customized training including industry visits ... According to a Nasscom-Booz Allen Hamilton report, the market for offshored engineering services in India would be in the tune of $40 billion by year 2020 and about 100,000 engineering graduates would be joining this industry. (Economic Times)

    Kirkwood mayor is improving  Feb 11, 2008
    Swoboda, a University of Missouri - Rolla engineering graduate in 1960, was shot twice in the head by Charles Cookie Thornton on Thursday night after Thornton stormed a City Council meeting, killing two police officers and three city officials before being killed by police. In Kirkwood on Sunday, residents left heaps of flowers at City Hall, while the lobby of the city police department took on the air of a funeral home as mourners came to support two officers killed in the shooting spree. (Rolla Daily News, MO)

    New Devices To Boost Nematode Research On Neurons And Drugs  Feb 10, 2008
    The other six co-authors are Joseph C. Doll and Sarah Coulthard, mechanical engineering graduate students at Stanford University; Beth L. Pruitt, professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford; Nikolaos Chronis, professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan; and Miriam B. Goodman, professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford. The National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation funded the research. (Science Daily)

    Misery Is Not Miserly: Why Even Momentary Sadness Increases Spending  Feb 9, 2008
    17, 1999) A recent University of Florida computer engineering graduate student has created a program that gives a computerized voice synthesizer the unusual ability to convey human emotional states including. (Aug. (Science Daily)

    Chief ponders security  Feb 9, 2008
    The city s mayor, Mike Swoboda, who was wounded in the attack, is a 1960 mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Missouri - Rolla. Swoboda is was in critical condition at an intensive care unit, St. John s Mercy Medical Center. (Rolla Daily News, MO)

    Show support for the Lady Miners, the Miners and our military  Feb 8, 2008
    -Warren Carroll, a 1959 petroleum engineering graduate of the Rolla campus who portrayed St. Pat in 1957 ... -John Moll, a 1969 civil engineering graduate of the Rolla campus who portrayed St. Pat in 1969 ... -Cheryl Walker, a 1986 electrical engineering graduate of the Rolla campus and a St. Louis attorney who is now president of the University of Missouri Board of Curators. (Rolla Daily News, MO)

    Chart Industries Board Nominates Two New Directors  Feb 7, 2008
    He is an engineering graduate of Bucknell University. The Chart Industries Board currently consists of four independent directors plus Board Chairman Thomas. (Primezone Releases)

    The trek to Mecca  Feb 6, 2008
    Although Aminzay, a 2005 UI civil and environmental engineering graduate, said he had seen the haj depicted in the media in the past, taking his first trip was entirely different. "Even though you see it on TV, when you see it in person and feel the peace and tranquility there, it's like you've never even seen it before," he said. (Daily Iowan, IA)

    Cook-off raises money for charity  Feb 5, 2008
    This is really good, proclaimed computational engineering graduate student Monika Jankun-Kelly, as she finished off her thimble of sweet potato soup, declaring it one of the best so far. The sweet potato is one of the most interesting, she added. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)

    Cell Phones Staying Charged 10 Times As Long?  Feb 5, 2008
    Three electrical engineering graduate students (from left) Yogesh Ramadass, Naveen Verma, and Joyce Kwong, seated, are members of Professor Anantha Chandrasakan's team that has developed a microchip that is 10 times more energy efficient than others. (Credit: MIT photo by Donna Coveney). (Science Daily)

    Citizen powerYoung Sunnis in Iraq eager to join armed forces  Feb 5, 2008
    Ali, a 27-year-old engineering graduate and member of an Awakening Council in western Baghdad, told the BBC: "It's a source of income. Also, before, we weren't able to move between neighbourhoods because of the (Shia) Mehdi army.". The US military wants to continue to invest in the Awakening Councils. (BBC News -- Africa)

    Significant Score  Jan 27, 2008
    Robert Weist, a 1962 chemical engineering graduate, currently serves as president of Weist Associates, a biotechnology industry consulting business in Chicago. Sally Weist, a 1961 liberal arts graduate, is a former elementary school teacher. (Purduesports.com)

    Trigon provides corporate and property update  Jan 23, 2008
    Zachary Twist, a recent mining engineering graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, has also joined the Company. A net reduction in staff has been implemented in order to manage cash resources appropriately in the current financial environment. (Canada Newswire)

    Thanks, Again  Jan 23, 2008
    Richard Schleicher is a 1959 mechanical engineering graduate who is donating the funds with wife, Alice, and daughter, Kimra, a 1988 liberal arts graduate. The plaza between the intercollegiate athletic center and the student-athlete academic center will bear the name of alumni and donors Robert and Sally Weist of Chicago. (Purduesports.com)

    A Step Closer  Jan 20, 2008
    Richard Schleicher is a 1959 mechanical engineering graduate who is donating the funds with wife, Alice, and daughter, Kimra, a 1988 liberal arts graduate ... Robert Weist, a 1962 chemical engineering graduate, currently serves as president of Weist Associates, a biotechnology industry consulting business in Chicago. (Purduesports.com)

    Distortion-Free Lens Technology Puts Things in a Negative Light  Jan 19, 2008
    A lens for negative refractive properties would have a flat surface and would not share the same resolution limitations and image distortions of a normal curved lens with positive refractive properties, says lead study author Anthony Hoffman, a Princeton engineering graduate student. Hoffman and his colleagues crafted their metamaterial semiconductor by placing alternating 80-nanometer-thick (one nanometer equals 3. (Scientific American)

    Twell follows Paula's footsteps  Jan 14, 2008
    Andy Baddeley, an aerospace engineering graduate from Cambridge University, was Britain's only winner of the day. He came through to pip Twell's Aldershot's club-mate Stephen Vernon in the 4. (Guardian Unlimited -- Sport)

    Student Killed in Accident Described as an 'Angel'  Jan 11, 2008
    "She was a funny girl," said Sara Crosby, a BYU civil engineering graduate who grew up with Blazzard. Blazzard was the oldest of six children, and Crosby said, "She comes from a very sweet family.". (The Daily Universe, UT)

    Fuel Cell That Uses Bacteria To Generate Electricity  Jan 8, 2008
    "We can use any kind of waste, such as sewage or pig manure, and the microbial fuel cell will generate electrical energy," said Marcus, a Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student and a member of the institute's Center for Environmental Biotechnology. Unlike conventional fuel cells that rely on hydrogen gas as a fuel source, the microbial fuel cell can handle a variety of water-based organic fuels. (Science Daily)

    High-energy ultrasound sharpens view of liver tumors  Jan 8, 2008
    Collaborators on the study included Rendon Nelson, vice chairman of radiology at Duke, along with David Bradway, Stephen Hsu and Douglas Dumont, all biomedical engineering graduate students at Duke's Pratt School. . (EurekAlert!)

    Dowagiac's WW I ace nominated for 'Hall'  Jan 5, 2008
    3, 1988), formerly of 105 Green St., was a University of Michigan engineering graduate. He joined the Air Service in August 1917. (Dowagiac News, MI)

    Students design robotic rescuer  Jan 4, 2008
    Gizmo's key innovation is that it's equipped with the technology needed to create its own wireless network, said Javier Rodriguez Molina, an electrical engineering graduate student who helped design the device. The wireless technology developed at UCSD enables several Gizmos to operate together, forming a wireless mesh network that offers more reliable and flexible ways to relay data to incident commanders as the robots move about. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)

    Cellphone talkers clog car traffic, researchers say  Jan 3, 2008
    Butresearcher and engineering graduate student Ivana Vladisavljevic ran simulations to see how changing the proportion of drivers talking on phones affected traffic flow. "We saw an increase in delays for all cars in a system, and the delays increased as the percentage of drivers on cellphones increased" from zero to 25 per cent, she said. (CBC News)

    Purdue students earn money smelling livestock excrement  Jan 3, 2008
    "Typically they're farm smells -- manure, farm waste, hay," said civil engineering graduate student Anuj Sharma. "The only thing that is good is that we are not smelling it for a long time.". (Melbourne Herald Sun)

    Drug arrest after Radio 1 DJ is found dead  Jan 2, 2008
    Greening, a chemical engineering graduate at University of Cambridge, was known for his laconic wit and the satirical sketches that he inserted into shows. His career included stints at the BBC World Service, Radio 5 Live, Jazz FM and the indie rock station Xfm. (Times Online)

    College Students Sniff Livestock Manure for Research  Jan 2, 2008
    "Typically they're farm smells manure, farm waste, hay. The only thing that is good is that we are not smelling it for a long time. It's just a sniff," said civil engineering graduate student Anuj Sharma. The students' work provides Heber with data for his ongoing research on ways to improve methods for estimating a given livestock farming operation's odor emissions. (Fox News)

    A 'Gizmo' That Saves Lives After Disasters  Dec 25, 2007
    He s an electrical engineering graduate student and programmer analyst at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), one of the most advanced, interdisciplinary research institutes in the world. "Gizmo," which looks like a cross between a remote-controlled toy truck and a lunar landing vehicle, may eventually transform disaster response by collecting and transmitting in real time any information that emergency personnel need via any... (Science Daily)

    Amateurs get chance to sail with the pros  Dec 22, 2007
    All the teams use a single-design boat, created by the engineering graduate Coutts and the naval architect Andrej Justin. "We wanted to include a degree of complexity so an owner can experience what a top-end race boat is like to sail," said Coutts. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)

    Carney excited about Forsee’s appointment as UM president  Dec 22, 2007
    Noting that Forsee is a 1972 civil engineering graduate of UMR, Carney cites Forsee s involvement with his alma mater as a positive quality not only for the Rolla campus, but for the University of Missouri as a whole ... Carney also noted that Cheryl D.S. Walker, a l986 electrical engineering graduate of UMR, will serve in 2008 as chair of the UM Board of Curators, meaning that two key people with a thorough knowledge of Rolla will be in key leadership positions for the UM system. (Rolla Daily News, MO)

    Snow delays and cancels flights for thousands of Logan passengers  Dec 21, 2007
    Sameer Kamal, an environmental engineering graduate student at the MIT, had the Delta leg of his two-flight trip home to Houston canceled and was planning to sleep overnight at Terminal A to maximize his chances of getting on a flight today. "I just got done with exams," Kamal said. (Boston Globe)

    Smaller, Faster Integrated Circuits Created By Using Computer-aided Design Software  Dec 21, 2007
    20, 2007) Integrated circuits are the "brain" in computers, cell phones, DVD players, iPhones, personal digital assistants, automobiles' navigation systems and anti-lock brakes, and many other electronic devices. A team of UCLA scientists has now demonstrated substantial improvements in integrated circuits, achieved not by costly improvements in manufacturing but by improved computer-aided design software based on better mathematical algorithms. (Science Daily)

    UCLA scientists working to create smaller, faster integrated circuits  Dec 20, 2007
    " Chan and Radke design algorithms for computer software to improve the placement of the nodes and are using differential equations that they build into the algorithms. The scientists expect that the research will lead to improved software for enhanced chip design. Cong's laboratory has found strong evidence that existing computer-aided programs for integrated circuit design are far from optimal. Chan and Radke are now working to minimize the amount of time it takes a signal to get through a... (EurekAlert!)

    Laser Beam 'Fire Hose' Used To Sort Cells; Could Enable New Kinds Of Biological Research  Dec 18, 2007
    The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Singapore-MIT Alliance; Kovac is supported by an ASEE National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)

    Using Carbon Nanotubes To Seek And Destroy Anthrax Toxin And Other Harmful Proteins  Dec 14, 2007
    Co-authors of the paper include Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering graduate students Amit Joshi and Shyam Sundhar Bale; postdoctoral researcher Supriya Punyani; Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center Laboratory Manager Hoichang Yang; and professor Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering. The group has filed a patent disclosure for their new selective nanotube-assisted protein deactivation technology. (Science Daily)

    Satellite unravels mystery of sun's atmosphere  Dec 11, 2007
    are you a engineering graduate looking for your fi. Negotiable. (Yahoo News -- Astronomy and Space)

    MIT sorts cells with beams of light  Dec 11, 2007
    The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Singapore-MIT Alliance; Kovac is supported by an ASEE National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Written by David Chandler, MIT News Office. (EurekAlert!)

    New Form Of Hydride Stimulates Research On Hydrogen Storage, Hydrogen-fueled Cars  Dec 6, 2007
    20, 2002) A series of obstacles fell before the onslaught of a Penn State engineering graduate class as they tackled and found solutions to all the barriers preventing development of a hybrid fuel cell. . (Science Daily)

    Group protests investments in coal  Dec 4, 2007
    "We hope to raise awareness ... that [dirty energy] is not an option," said SEA member John Pickard, a University Engineering graduate student who participated in the protest. According to information distributed by the protesters, coal is responsible for 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)

    'Do you believe this book?'  Dec 4, 2007
    That being the case, it's up to Dearing to answer a question of his own: What will he say when the president of the United States answers his question by saying, "No, I do not believe literally in that book. What are you going to do about it?" Jones is an electrical and computer engineering graduate student. Page 1 of 1. (The Daily Texan, TX)

    Cuter Scooter Defined By Electricity, Portability  Nov 29, 2007
    26, 2006) An Industrial Design Engineering graduate from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has designed and built a working prototype of a scooter, which can be powered by hydrogen. Crijn. (Science Daily)

    Virginia Tech shooting victims to be honored before Tech-Penn State game  Nov 28, 2007
    Penn State players and coaches will present the family of Virginia Tech engineering graduate student Jeremy Herbstritt with a framed picture of the VT spelled out in the student section during Penn State s spring football scrimmage April 21, five days after the shootings. The Hokies will also make a pregame presentation to the Herbstritt family, a Penn State team spokesman said Tuesday. (Somerset Daily American, PA)

    Co-oping at the University  Nov 28, 2007
    Ven Den Bossche, a chemical engineering graduate student, is a member of Co-operative Housing at the University of Virginia, a group that promotes affordable, democratically-run housing. CHUVA's three residences on Jefferson Park Avenue and Shamrock Road are jointly rented by 14 undergraduates, graduates and community members. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)

    Few students stay in Austin for Thanksgiving  Nov 26, 2007
    Associate civil engineering professor Kara Kockelman organized a group of mostly international engineering graduate students and their families for a post-Thanksgiving bowling and pizza night at the Union Underground, during a time when the rest of the building was closed. "I wanted to have something where everyone has some kind of family," Kockelman said. (The Daily Texan, TX)

    Seeing dollar signs  Nov 14, 2007
    EXPRESS YOURSELF: Electrical engineering graduate student Fei Wu enters a crowded Panda Express Tuesday night. The recent MU closure has increased business at local eateries, including the new string of restaurants on College Avenue just north of University Drive. (Web Devil, AZ)

    Oh the places you'll go!  Nov 7, 2007
    Sonja Demuth, a 2005 Engineering graduate who has lived in Los Angeles County for 2. 5 years, and 2003 Commerce graduate Chris Arnwine, former L.A. resident, both said they would recommend experiencing life in Los Angeles. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)

    Tech finds water for football field  Nov 7, 2007
    The equipment and labor needed to divert and store the water cost about $25,000, said Bryan Nix, a 1993 Georgia Tech mechanical engineering graduate who managed the week-and-a-half-long project for Ragan Enterprises of Marietta. The system, funded by the athletics department, should eventually pay for itself. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    Wireless Sensors To Monitor Bearings In Jet Engines Developed  Nov 6, 2007
    The paper was written by electrical and computer engineering graduate student Andrew Kovacs, Peroulis and Sadeghi. The sensors could be in use in a few years in military aircraft such as fighter jets and helicopters. (Science Daily)

    Click Chemistry Labels Biomolecules In Vitro And Now In Live Cells  Nov 6, 2007
    Jeremy Baskin was supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Baskin and Pamela Chang were supported by National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships. (Science Daily)

    Internet allows Cirebon furniture firm to taste success  Nov 5, 2007
    Taking a risk, however, has proved worthwhile for Tonton Taufik, a 34-year-old civil engineering graduate living in Cirebon, West Java. PT Rattanland Furniture, which he established in his town in 1999, has turned into one of the most successful companies in the country thanks to the power of the Internet. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Business)

    Let's talk about blind faith  Nov 3, 2007
    Jones is an electrical and computer engineering graduate student. Page 1 of 1. (The Daily Texan, TX)

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