Drexel’s robotics engineers have been prepping for more than a year to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge trials, which will take place this weekend at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Here’s what you need to know […]
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Your Morning Coffee and Its Effect on The Future of Sustainable Building Design
When your office’s overzealous air conditioner is creating a sub-arctic work environment, what measures will you take to keep warm? Will you go right to the thermostat, or do you put on a sweater, make […]
Staying Upstream of Water Contamination
From November of 2001 to January of 2002 a contaminated cistern that had collected rain water for the village of Santa Isabel do Ivaí Paraná, Brazil infected more than 600 people with a parasitic disease […]
A Robot Training to Save Lives
The next time disaster strikes, human rescue workers might not have to put themselves into harm’s way to save lives. Drexel is participating in an international challenge to design a robot for responding to crisis […]
A Building Engineer’s Tips for Keeping Cool in Hot Weather
Whether you’re dialing down the thermostat, hoisting a window unit into place or creating a wind tunnel of fans, it’s been a challenge to keep cool during record temperatures this summer. And comfort comes at […]
From Seams to Supercapacitors: A Doctoral Student’s Plan to Light Up the Runway
Though their practice and passion may often seem to be at opposite ends of the creative spectrum, a common thread exists between fashion designers to materials engineers. And now a doctoral student at Drexel is […]
Making Demolition Safe
By Dr. Robert Brehm In Philadelphia a building collapses, six people are killed and 14 injured creating outrage, a public outcry and pressure to determine the cause and to reform regulations to prevent future tragedies […]
John, Paul, George and Hubo?
Four humanoid robots stole the spotlight on YouTube last year with their take on the Beatles’ “Come Together.” Now the Drexel engineers responsible are giving a behind-the-scenes look at how the music video…well, came together. […]
Pong’s Big Moment in Lights
Playing an 8-bit video game on an 85,360-square-foot monitor in front of an entire city – perhaps the dream of anyone who grew up during the golden age of the arcade in the 1970s and […]