Engineering School Innovations

Blog entry | May 8, 2012

Engineering Students Toy with Industrial Technologies

Too often we hear about the deficit of interest in engineering education. These two application videos illustrate that the state of engineering education is anything but moribund.

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Research

| May 1, 2012

Engineering School Innovations: PitchPALS

Combining data acquisition and video analysis leads to development of unique baseball training tool for grip analysis.

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Blog entry | April 10, 2012

Purdue Engineers Break Own Rube Goldberg Record

New Rube Goldberg machine incorporates 300 steps, breaking old record of 244 steps by a comfortable margin.

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Case Application

| March 29, 2012

Engineering School Innovations: Research Flow Loop

The research flow loop created by students at the Univeristy of Tulsa is used to study how a clean hole can be created during the drilling process.

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Feature Article

| February 27, 2012

Engineering School Innovations: Pitcher Perfect Tuner

With the goal of creating a device to help music students improve their skills on the trumpet, engineering students at the University of California, San Diego, employ microcontrollers, servo motors an

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Video | January 25, 2012

Engineering School Innovations: MRI-Compatible Piezoelectric Actuated Robot

This video shows control of the rotation and translation of the needle placement robot inside MRI. While this is being done, the team can visualize (in real-time — 2.5Hz) the needle insertion trajectory inside the gelatin phantom, which is similar to the interior of human body.

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