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July

  • Society of Women Engineers Hosts Workshop for Young Girls in Tech

    July 31, 2013

    On July 13, the Society of Women Engineers partnered with Comcast Corp. and Tech Girlz to host its first technical workshop. Young attendees learned about podcasts and were introduced to women currently working tech-related jobs.

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  • Q&A with Ibrahim Bakir: The Co-op Interrupted by a Coup

    July 25, 2013

    Ibrahim Bakir is a mechanical engineering student at Drexel University and an Egyptian national. For the past four months, he has been living with his parents in Cairo while completing a six-month co-op as a trainee in a Johnson & Johnson factory in 6th of October City, a suburb of Cairo.

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  • Student Gets Cosmopolitan Office Experience in Berlin

    July 25, 2013

    Greg Yeutter, who has lived in Germany since last September while studying at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, is now working on a co-op in Berlin with cloudControl, a German cloud computing company.

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  • Drexel Students’ Concept for Harnessing Energy from Wind Tunnels Takes Them to Paris

    July 24, 2013

    Alexa Forney, a junior product design major in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and Greg Yeutter, a junior majoring in electrical engineering in the College of Engineering with a minor in product design, recently created a concept for installing wind power solutions in urban settings.

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  • Where Do We Go From the George Zimmerman Trial? Panel Will Discuss Race, Justice and Activism at Drexel

    July 23, 2013

    The Africana Studies program in Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences will host a candid panel discussion on race, justice and activism onSaturday, July 27. The discussion and question-and-answer session will take place from 2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.in Room 120 of the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (33rd and Chestnut Streets). It is free and open to the public.

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  • Drexel President John Fry Welcomes WorkReady Philadelphia Summer Interns to Campus

    July 15, 2013

    Drexel President John A. Fry will host a breakfast event to welcome more than 60 WorkReady Philadelphia summer interns to the University’s campus. The high school interns will be working in a variety of academic and administrative units across the University.

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  • Drexel-led Team Advances to Phase II of DARPA Robotics Challenge

    July 11, 2013

    The work of roboticists from 10 institutions who have pooled their efforts to compete as team DRC-HUBO in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Robotics Challenge has been rewarded with an official thumbs up from the agency. The Drexel-led team passed the first phase of critical design review and will be among the competitors at the DRC head-to-head trials in December.

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  • Drexel Launches Ventures Innovation Fund and Technology Incubation Program

    July 01, 2013

    Drexel University is creating a seed funding, incubation and technology transfer enterprise called “Drexel Ventures,” with the goal of spurring technological advancements with real-world applications. The program, which supports Drexel’s strategic priority of fostering economic development in the area, will make it easier for researchers to enter into partnerships with the private sector and translate their work into the marketplace.

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