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Bringing Innovative Design into Urban High Schools
This University of Pittsburgh project, in collaboration with Westinghouse Electric Corporation has developed formal learning science pedagogies that transfer teacher summer research ...
Brain Chip for Memory–Not Just Science Fiction
Researchers are one step closer to supplementing the human brain with computer power. Theodore Berger, a bioengineering professor at the University of Southern ...
Bio-Discovery for Females and Underrepresented Minorities at WPI
Integrated research, education, and outreach experiences were offered for 8 undergraduates in Bioengineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The objectives of this program ...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Explore the Arctic Ocean
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) has used the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to provide the first images of the ...
Autonomous Needle-steering Robots Advance Minimally Invasive Surgery
Minimally invasive surgical techniques are highly successful in improving patient care, reducing risk of infection, and decreasing recovery times. The development of ...
ASPIRE: Assistive Technology for the Underprivileged
This REU program at the University of Pittsburgh has exposed students to rehabilitation engineering research, provided education, and created novel training activities ...
Aerospace Research Experience for Undergraduates
This project is a rare research experience for undergraduate students in computational and experimental plasma turbulence in the Department of Aerospace Engineering ...
Advanced Packaging Technologies Enable Intraocular Retinal Prosthesis
Creating interface technologies to construct a tiny artificial-vision implant for treating disease-induced blindness is one of the research thrusts at the Biomimetic ...
A New Method for Optimizing the Treatment of Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Early stage, low-risk prostate cancer is treated by inserting radioactive seeds into the ...