Posted on January 6th, 2010 by rxt
The West Point Bridge Design Contest aims to provide middle school and high school students with a realistic, engaging introduction to engineering. The contest is provided as a service to education–and as a tribute to the Academy’s two hundred years of service to the United States of America. Contest registration opens January 28, 2010.
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Tags: Bridge Design, Contest, Design, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by axb
The future may look greener for New York City: Belgian firm Vincent Callebaut Architectures has designed a winged vertical farm for Roosevelt Island in NYC, called the Dragonfly. This funky, wind and solar-powered structure would stand over 600 meters (close to 2,000 feet) and house the equivalent of 28 agricultural fields. Read more here.
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Tags: Agricultural, Architectural, Art, Biomimicry, Design, Energy, Environmental, Green Technology, renewable energy
Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Jaimie Schock
With 2010 fast approaching, it’s about time we came up with some New Year’s resolutions (for the engineering world, of course). What can engineers improve on? What should they improve on? Here’s our list:
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Posted on December 29th, 2009 by axb
This holiday break four civil engineering students from Santa Clara University gave up spending time with their families in order to help build sustainable structures in a village in Ghana. The buildings, a library and an onion shed, were designed by the students and will be made to withstand heavy rainfall. Read all about their inspiring project here.
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Posted on December 16th, 2009 by axb
Wired’s (12/16, Alfred) “This Day In Tech” blog reports that on this day in 1832, Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon, France. In addition to designing the Eiffel Tower and the internal framework for the Statue of Liberty, his “other engineering works include the Porto viaduct over Portugal’s River Douro, the Pest railway station in Hungary, and the Nice observatory dome and Sioule Bridge in France.” He was also “the chief engineer of the locks in the unsuccessful French effort to build the Panama Canal.”
Wired’s “This Day In Tech” blog reports that on this same day in 1832, Gustave Eiffel, a French structural engineer, was born in Dijon. Does his name sound familiar?
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