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New Grant for Intelligent Buildings Project
Yale’s Intelligent Buildings Project has received a $200,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation to conduct research on building energy consumption. The grant will aid the project’s efforts to lay...
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Alumnus Profile: Dr. Edward Cheung Ph.D. ’90, Building Gadgets from Aruba to...
The user of this robotic arm is able to control the arm by handling the smaller arm (pictured at Cheung’s left elbow). Courtesy of Dr. Cheung. Like many children, five-year-old Edward Cheung wanted to...
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One of the Many Quirks of Quantum
The world of quantum mechanics is, to the average person, a world of science fiction. This quirky corner of physics tends to be far removed from our everyday lives. However, the phenomena that emerge...
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Yale’s New “Design Factory”: The CEID
Yale’s new Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (CEID) opened this fall, centralizing and expanding the resources previously available to engineering students. “This is the first time effort...
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Enriching Uranium
Uranium is a radioactive metal that can be mined from the Earth. Its radioactivity comes from its unstable isotopes uranium-238 and uranium-235. While most of the uranium that is mined is uranium-238,...
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Mitchell Smooke Awarded the Zeldovich Medal
Professor Mitchell Smooke’s work specializes in the development of numerical and computation procedures to solve problems related to chemically reacting flows, particularly flame structures. Courtesy...
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Microbots: Using Nanotechnology In Medicine
The human body houses a complex of twisted pathways, labyrinths of tunnels unimaginably small. The biological systems responsible for the flow of the blood, oxygen, and electrical impulses that...
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A Bat’s World
Yale Professor of Electrical Engineering Roman Kuc has answered an important question regarding the ability of a bat to detect motionless prey. For more than 25 years, Kuc has been exploring the world...
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Test Tube Meat: It’s What’s for Dinner
Imagine sitting down at the dinner table and staring at a green algae sludge soup, a grilled grasshopper appetizer, and an entrée consisting of thin turkey strips grown in a large glass vat. It may not...
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One Qbit, Two Qbit, Supercomputer
Masked engineers prepare the silicon chip that the quantum bit is housed on in a clean room at the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW. Courtesy of the University of New South Wales In a...
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Alumnus Profile: Joey Brink ’11, From K’Nex to Carillon
Joey Brink ’11 currently studies robotics in the University of Utah’s Engineering Department. Image courtesy of Joey Brink. The interview began with a realization: even engineers struggle with modern...
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The Chemistry of Ice Cream: The Scoop on the Unique Properties of a Popular...
Ice cream can come in an assortment of flavors, but the underlying chemistry is largely the same. Courtesy of Ashley’s Ice Cream. Ice cream is a significant presence in American culture, as over 1.53...
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Ionic Conductors: From New Stereos to a Biomedical Revolution
In the Harvard researchers’ experiment, the voltage signal from the audio output of a laptop was fed through a high-voltage amplifier to the ionic speaker. Through its vibrations, the speaker...
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The Future of Space Exploration: Delving into the Final Frontier
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and...
View ArticleImproving Solar Cell Efficiency with Carbon Nanotubes
A team of Yale scientists has developed a new method to improve the efficiency of carbon nanotube-based solar cells. The technique, which is highly efficient at removing oxygen and residual molecules...
View ArticleJamming Out with Dr. Corey O’Hern
Dr. Corey O’Hern, an expert in the field of jamming, has recently received funding from the National Science Foundation to host a symposium on jamming in Madrid this summer.
View ArticleHow to Save a Rocket: SpaceX’s plan for rocket recovery hits a few bumps
Rocket recovery could confer tremendous benefits on the cost and feasibility of space travel. SpaceX, a company with a goal of making private space travel a possibility, has been experimenting with...
View ArticleSmartphones: Hacking Weapons of the Future
Researchers in electrical engineering and computer science have found that the familiar and unassuming smartphone is a potent weapon for hacking computer hard drives and servers.
View ArticleBirds and Better Drones
Stanford scientists have invented a new device to measure the lift created by flying birds. This new machine provides the most accurate measures yet of aerodynamic forces, and has exciting implications...
View ArticleUndergraduate Profile: Genevieve Fowler ’16
Throughout her time at Yale, mechanical engineering major Genevieve Fowler ’16 has not only made her technological impact on the engineering world, but has exemplified the spirit of enthusiasm and...
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