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EE Grad’s Cyborg Glove Wins Y Combinator’s First-Ever Hardware Hackathon in Silicon Valley

Original Article Source While the hackathon trend may be aging, Y Combinator – a well-known Silicon Valley incubator – freshened the concept by hosting a 12-hour “hardware” hackathon in late February at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Jack Minardi, a 2012 electrical engineering graduate, led a six-person team to victory in under 10 hours...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 in Related News | Tags: , , , , No Comments »

Earth’s Radiation Belts Surprisingly Dynamic, New Probes Find

Two new NASA probes that are flying through the belts of radiation surrounding Earth have found that these regions change more rapidly than previously thought. The Van Allen Probes — a pair of twin spacecraft formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes — launched Aug. 30, and turned on their instruments two days later. Since then,...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 in Related News | No Comments »

Dean Galloway Receives Dual Honors at Celebration Dinner

Original Article Source Vanderbilt School of Engineering School Dean Kenneth F. Galloway was named Distinguished Professor of Engineering by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at a dinner celebrating his 16-year tenure as dean. The new title and an undergraduate engineering scholarship in his honor established by the Engineering Alumni Council and the school’s Committee of Visitors...... KEEP READING

Posted on Monday, June 4th, 2012 in Related News | Tags: , , , , , , No Comments »

Galloway is President-Elect of the American Society for Engineering Education

Original Article Source Kenneth F. Galloway has been elected to serve as president-elect of the American Society for Engineering Education.  Galloway is dean of the School of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering. He will become president-elect at the 2012 Annual Conference June 10-13 in San Antonio, Texas, and will assume the presidency in June...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 in Related News | Tags: , , , , No Comments »

Nuclear Ballistic Missile Command and Control Technology Still a Prime Military Concern

A recent special report article in Military and Aerospace Electronics highlights the importance of the command and control electronics in the U.S. arsenal of ballistic missiles, which represent two important legs of the “nuclear triad” of bomber aircraft, ICBMs, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).  The U.S. must have a “reliable command structure for the nuclear...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 in Related News | Tags: , , , , , , , , , No Comments »

An Award-Worthy Look at Electronic Glitches

An Award-Worthy Look at Electronic Glitches Beginning in 1995 TRIUMF has built up several beam lines that provide low-intensity, energetic proton and neutron beams to simulate natural-radiation exposures either in space or terrestrial environments. Even at low intensity, a few minutes of exposure in these beams can correspond to years of operation in space, air,...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 in Related News | Tags: , , , , , , , , No Comments »

US Navy Test Fires Trident II D5 Missile

Original Source: Naval Technology Article – US Navy Test Fires Trident II D5 Missile US Navy Test Fires Trident II D5 Missile The US Navy’s fleet ballistic missile submarine, USS Tennessee (SSBN 734), has successfully launched the Lockheed Martin-developed Trident II D5 test missile in the Atlantic Ocean. The unarmed missile was launched as a...... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 in News, Related News | Tags: , , , No Comments »

Sun fires off 2 huge solar flares, could impact weather on Earth

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/07/sun-fires-off-2-huge-solar-flares-could-impact-weather-on-earth/... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 in Related News | Tags: , No Comments »

Did Bad Memory Chips Down Russia’s Mars Probe?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/did-bad-memory-chips-down-russias-mars-probe... KEEP READING

Posted on Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 in Related News | Tags: , , , No Comments »

Professor Ron Schrimpf Receives Chancellor’s Cup

Original Article – myVU Professor Ron Schrimpf Receives Chancellor’s Cup Posted 10/21/2010 Ron Schrimpf receives the Chancellor’s Cup from the Chancellor. (photo by Vanderbilt University/Susan Urmy.) Ron Schrimpf, Orrin Henry Ingram Professor of Engineering and faculty head of Memorial House, was surprised in the middle of a presentation to a meeting of the Engineering Alumni...... KEEP READING

Posted on Thursday, October 21st, 2010 in Related News | Tags: , , No Comments »

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