Eric Frew talking in his lab before deployment

Podcast: AES Professor Frew on drone based storm research, airborne scientists and the movie "Twister"

July 1, 2019

OnCue talked to Professor Eric Frew about how drones are contributing to cutting edge storm research, long travel days with the project, and expectation versus reality in the '90s classic tornado movie "Twister."

The hurricane hunter airplane at media day

Meet the other teams involved in TORUS 2019

July 1, 2019

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ worked with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Texas Tech University, the University of Oklahoma and the National Severe Storms Laboratory on the project.

RAAVEN info graphic with specifications

Meet the RAAVEN drone that gathers data from the storms

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ engineering has a long history of using drones to study severe storms and tornadoes. See the technical specs for the RAAVEN, the most flexible and sophisticated tool ever used for this kind of work here.

Diane McKnight during a fieldwork visit to the McMurdo Dry Valleys

'Science Friday' highlights Antarctic hydrology work by two ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ engineers

June 26, 2019

Michael Gooseff and Diane McKnight of civil, environmental and architectural engineering have spent years documenting the dramatic changes in the continent's McMurdo Dry Valleys.

students collaborating around computers

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ is top producer in national cybersecurity competition

June 25, 2019

Sponsored by governors in 25 states, the program trains students in critical skills while they compete for scholarships

A group of water experts gather around the seismic testing equipment in the CIEST lab.

Water industry leaders from across U.S. visit ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ lab for seismic test demonstration

June 25, 2019

The Center for Infrastructure, Energy and Space Testing recently hosted a full-scale experimental demonstration designed to evaluate how hazard-resistant pipelines respond to earthquakes. Water agency representatives, consultants and manufacturers, many of whom were attendees at American Water Works Association’s Annual Conference and Exposition in Denver, were invited to campus to...

Engineering Center

New biomedical engineering degrees to launch

June 21, 2019

Undergraduate and graduate students at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ will soon get new opportunities to pursue careers in the biomedical industry. Through these bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, students will have the chance to pursue classes from across the university, across engineering, biology and mathematics. The new programs could launch as early as fall 2020.

A phone showing the test presidential alert sent in 2018

National emergency alerts potentially vulnerable to attack

June 20, 2019

A team of researchers from the Department of Computer Science (CS), Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE) and the Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy (TCP) program discovered a back door through which hackers might mimic presidential alerts.

Design For America

Finding Community: Design group puts skills to work solving local problems

June 13, 2019

From developing a system to reduce food waste to constructing a way to prevent tool theft at public bike repair stations, students in the Design for America organization at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ are working on a wide range of projects with community partners.

Prashant working on a whiteboard

These nano-bugs eat CO2 and make eco-friendly fuel

June 12, 2019

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals.

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