To ease impending demand spikes from the proliferation of data centers, energy utilities are turning to supercapacitors. Drexel Professor Yury Gogotsi, PhD, explains why the technology could play a key role in the future of our energy grid.
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Q+A: Can AI Save the U.S. Energy Grid From AI Data Centers?
College of Engineering expert Ali Hasan, PhD, discusses the strain AI data centers will put on the energy grid and how the technology could also be the key to fortifying it for the surge in demand.
Q+A: Can Digital Technologies, Like AI and Blockchain, Make Construction Less Wasteful?
A College of Engineering researcher who studies sustainable construction methods discusses how new digital technologies could help reduce construction waste and support sustainability.
Q+A: How Much Should We Be Worried About a Sneeze on a Bus?
Drexel researchers are using advanced computer modeling to better understand how ventilation affects the movement of particles through the air on buses.
Q+A: Following the Slippery Path of Road Salt
College of Engineering researcher Amanda Carneiro Marques, PhD, shares her insight on the environmental impact of road salts and other deicers.
Shelter from the Storm: Helping Communities Find a Climate- Resilient Future
For the better part of a decade, researchers and students from Drexel University’s College of Engineering have been collaborating with governmental and non-governmental partners in Camden, New Jersey and Philadelphia’s Eastwick neighborhood on the development […]
Q+A: Bumps, Humps, Cushions, Tables — What’s the Best Way to Slow Down Traffic?
The last three years have been three of Philadelphia’s worst for traffic fatalities, according to the city’s Vision Zero annual traffic safety report. Citywide efforts in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation are attempting […]
Q+A: How Are Engineers Improving the Safety and Performance of E-Bike, Scooter and EV Batteries?
As battery-powered transportation, such as e-bikes, scooters and electric vehicles, become more widely used, the durability and performance of battery technology is increasingly being pushed to its limits. A spate of tragic e-bike fires in […]
Q+A: Could Wastewater Surveillance Help Us Spot The Next Pandemic?
A number of cities across the country have been using regular testing of sewage to spot genetic signs of COVID-19 and other diseases. The process, called wastewater surveillance, gives municipalities an edge in responding to […]
Q+A: What’s Preventing More Close-Calls on Airport Runways?
Two planes missed colliding on the runway at New York’s JFK Airport by about 1,000 feet last week. With hundreds of flights arriving and departing the airport each day, even the smallest miscommunication or misunderstanding […]