2012 | Drexel Engineering

- STEM Camp
  
  August 06, 2012
  Drexel recently partnered with PECO to provide a new educational opportunity for rising fifth graders in the Mantua and Powelton Village communities who are interested in STEM careers.
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- Engineers adding arms to unmanned aerial vehicles
  
  August 01, 2012
  Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand –and an arm– from engineers at Drexel University as part of a National Science Foundation grant to investigate adding dexterous limbs to the aircrafts. The project, whose subject harkens to the hovering android iconography of sci-fi movies, could be a step toward the use of UAVs for emergency response and search and rescue scenarios.
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- QandA Joseph Hughes
  
  August 01, 2012
  As Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Joseph B. Hughes aims to create a “culture of planning,” but one of the biggest decisions in his life arrived through serendipity.
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- Co-op Profile-Andre White
  
  July 31, 2012
  Mechanical engineering junior Andre White, who is currently on co-op with Boeing, says Drexel's co-op program arms students with an "extra notch of competitiveness."
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- Diving Board Sensor Key to DNA Detection
  
  July 26, 2012
  A tiny vibrating cantilever sensor could soon help doctors and field clinicians quickly detect harmful toxins, bacteria and even indicators of certain types of cancer from small samples of blood or urine. Researchers from Drexel University are in the process of refining a sensor technology that they developed to measure samples at the cellular level into an accurate method for quickly detecting traces of DNA in liquid samples.
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- Co-op Profile Amanda Pentecost
  
  July 18, 2012
  Drexel senior Amanda Pentecost is currently in China working at the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI). She is the first student to take part in the Drexel-SARI partnership.
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- Sifting Liquid Using Nanotubes
  
  July 17, 2012
  Drexel University engineers continue to drive research into the use of carbon nanotubes, straw-like structures that are more than 1,000 times thinner than a single human hair. Their most recent development uses the tiny tubes to separate liquids within a solution.
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- Computer Science Design Team Wins Microsoft Imagine Cup World Championship
  
  July 11, 2012
  The group, dubbed team “Drexel Dragons,” won the game design mobile category with a smartphone app that turns learning math concepts into a fun game.
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- Engineers Develop New Grid-Level Energy Storage Technology
  
  July 10, 2012
  In the aftermath of the recent United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the focus of many industrialized nations is beginning to shift toward planning for a sustainable future. One of the foremost challenges for sustainability is efficient use of renewable energy resources, a goal that hinges on the ability to store this energy when it is produced and disburse it when it is needed.
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- Drexel Engineering Receives Obama Singh grant
  
  July 09, 2012
  An educational initiative, jointly funded by India and the United States, has paired Drexel University with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to create a resource for assessing the human health risks of microbial contamination.
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