Video: Speed to Class on the LOLriokart
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by als
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Tags: Mechanical, Transportation
Video: 11th Annual ChemE Car Race in Nashville
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by als
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Tags: Chemical, Transportation
Video: Ford Uses Motion-Capture to Improve Cars
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by als
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Tags: Computer, Electrical, Industrial / Manufacturing, Transportation
Video: Make a Hasty Escape with NASA’S Puffin
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by als
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Engineers Learn from Slime Molds
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by axb
The slime mold, a type of single-celled amoeboid organism, looks to be more of a smartypants than scientists previously thought. Why? Because these gooey blobs are actually capable of growing sophisticated networks in order to feed themselves. In experiments where slime molds were exposed to an array of food sources (think: a scattering of crumbs or cereal), they showed an unexpected ability to grow very efficient connections between feeding hubs. These web-like structures (you can view them here) even mimicked modern transportation networks, like the Tokyo subway system.
Engineers are now searching for this special “slime formula”, which could make it easier to design a variety of networks (from public transportation to the internet) more efficiently.
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