Drexel’s Summer Music Technology program brings high school students to campus for a week of exploration, discovery and invention, with the goal of tying music to innovation in science and engineering. This summer marks the […]
Tag: engineering
What Do Your Cell and WIFI Signals Look Like?
Dead zones, black holes, shadows…we all have our names for those bad-reception areas that are a nuisance in a world of ubiquitous, mobile communication, but it’s hard to see exactly why they exist and how […]
Collision Course: High-Speed Impact Testing Meets High-Tech Sportswear
Success in business, like success in athletics, is often tied to the ability to be faster and more agile than an opponent. Success in scientific research tends to be achieved through a slower, nuanced process […]
ISO: Artists With a Penchant For Tech
Drexel’s ExCITe Center, which has been at the confluence of science, technology and the arts communities in Philadelphia for a number of years, is gearing up to support a new endeavor this spring with an […]
How to Build a Flexing Robotic Dinosaur Limb In Seven ‘Easy’ Steps
With their discovery of Dreadnoughtus schrani in 2014, a team of Drexel University researchers unearthed not only the most complete skeleton of a new species of supermassive dinosaur, but also a trove of research opportunities. […]
ICYMI: Drexel Hyperloop Team Gets a Big Push Forward
A group of Drexel engineering undergraduates is among the last teams standing in the race to design a transportation pod for SpaceX’s high-speed transit test track — the hyperloop. The team was one of thousands […]
Q+A: Post-Paris, America’s First Step To Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Drexel environmental engineering professor Patrick Gurian explains why the United States’ first move after the Paris Climate Conference was to formalize a new energy efficiency standard for air conditioners and furnaces.
Drexel Snapshot: Designing and Building Philly’s First Public Boathouse
During the summer, as part of Drexel’s Engineering Projects in Community Service program, students from Drexel’s College of Engineering worked with students from the community to design and build a public boathouse and a floating […]
Drexel Snapshot: What Can Venetian ‘High Water’ Teach Us About Climate Resiliency?
Drexel environmental engineering professor Franco Montalto, PhD, is on sabbatical in Venice, where he’s getting a close look at the effects of climate on the urban ecosystem. Montalto, who designs, installs and monitors green infrastructure […]
Dark Silicon: The Microchip Menace
Mark Hempstead is combating Dark Silicon. While that might sound a bit like a recycled Star Wars plot, it’s actually an important piece of research happening at Drexel in hopes of restoring the arc of […]
