Kurt Degoede

” Elizabethtown College alumna Kyla Strickler ‘20 was recently awarded the 2021 Engineering for Change (E4C) Fellowship.” https://news.etown.edu/index.php/2021/05/04/etown-alumna-awarded-engineering-for-change-fellowship/

June 3 ” Inventors have recast the bicycle as a cheap power supply for myriad products. The world’s most efficient transportation device now handles everything from poop to ice cream. Several groups are even working on bike-powered laundry machines, including MIT and their “Spincycle” (get it?). Ten creative ways that bicycles are serving people around the … Continue reading →

EZRA KLEIN: I think you really see that dynamic in terms of what risks and problems we will politically accept and which ones we turn on the sirens for. So the existence of entrenched poverty in this country, just taken for granted. … Meanwhile, though, like the minute there is a risk of inflation, …the … Continue reading →

Intuitive, low-cost instruments for people in developing countries: Saad Bhamla, a professor at Georgia Tech, is developing portable, frugal and accessible equipment for use in needier parts of the world. One example is a simple substitute for the bulky but vital medical centrifuge that’s based on the simple whirligig toy, with a disk rapidly spun … Continue reading →

Advances in mobile devices and electric vehicles have pushed battery technology to the breaking point. New advances in battery design are needed to meet today’s energy demands. https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/advancing-battery-technology-for-modern-innovations

“We were promised, with the internet, a productivity revolution. We were told that we’d get more done, in less time, with less stress. Instead, we got always-on communication, the dissolution of the boundaries between work and home, the feeling of constantly being behind, lackluster productivity numbers, and, to be fair, reaction GIFs. What went wrong?”

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-open-source-low-cost-robotic-arm-online.html “Researchers at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico have recently created a low-cost robotic arm that could enhance online robotics education, allowing teachers to remotely demonstrate theoretical concepts explained during their lessons. This robotic arm, presented in a paper published in Hardware X, is fully open source and can be easily assembled by all teachers and … Continue reading →

Finally! You can now enter equations in MSWord in LaTeX code: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/linear-format-equations-using-unicodemath-and-latex-in-word-2e00618d-b1fd-49d8-8cb4-8d17f25754f8

“Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) have come up with and patented a new system for manufacturing beams that aims to revolutionize the architecture, construction and civil engineering sectors.” https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-lego-like-revolutionize.html

” What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.” – Geroge Saunders George Saunders convocation speech at Syracuse University 2013