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Education Outreach: From Sensors to B2MML

Banner Engineering and MESA International launch new education programs designed to engage families as well as practicing engineers.
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Submersible, Remotely Operated Vehicle
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Students Win with Submersible, Remotely Operated Vehicle

A team of engineering students from Early College East is headed to Germany after winning Phoenix Contact’s Nanoline contest.
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Cornell Cup USA
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Engineering Students Set to Compete at Cornell Cup USA

U.S. college engineering students will show off their newest designs at the second annual Cornell Cup.
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Engineering School Innovations
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Reconfigurable Controller Drives Advanced Manufacturing Research

Oregon State University’s thin-film semiconductor development research gets an updatable boost from CompactRIO programmable automation controller.
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Mechatronics Training
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Real-World Mechatronics Training

With many manufacturing managers underwhelmed at the level of hands-on experience possessed by many of the new engineering graduates they hire, Sierra Community College responds with a program that could serve as a model for training workers for highly automated environments.
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Engineering Education Enticement
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Engineering Education Enticement

Phoenix Contact opens entry to its annual engineering contest for middle and high school students. The grand prize is a trip to Germany for the winning team.
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Engineering School Innovations
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Engineering School Innovations: Wireless Automated Assembly

Purdue students develop an automated machine with wireless controls to assemble plastic injection molded Purdue souvenirs.
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Engineering School Innovations
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Engineering School Innovations: Fuel from Waste Plastic

Student at the University of British Columbia uses Honeywell’s Unisim design simulation software to model the pyrolysis process by which waste plastic can be turned into synthetic crude oil.
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Hydraulic Hybrid Bus
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Hybrid Research Has Educational Impact

Georgia Tech engineering research into the use of hydraulic hybrid technology on school buses to reduce energy use and curb emissions also serves as a vehicle to attract young students to engineering.
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Stihl Manufacturing Camp Trains the Next Generation of Engineers
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Stihl Manufacturing Camp Trains the Next Generation of Engineers

Power tool manufacturer Stihl partners with a Virginia association to inspire kids into manufacturing operations. Simon Nance, manager of training and development at Stihl Inc., describes the initiativein this TAC 2012 One on One interview.
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Engineering School Innovations
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Engineering School Innovations: Solar-powered Electric Bicycle

The Green Power Club at Central Dauphin High School converted a bicycle to run on electricity and built a solar charging station to power it.
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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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Playing with Fire
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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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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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Rube Goldberg World Record
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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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