2013 | Drexel Engineering

- Using Lasers to Measure Electron Band Gaps
  
  September 03, 2013
  Engineers working in the nanoscale will have a new tool at their disposal thanks to an international group of researchers led by Drexel University’s College of Engineering. This innovative procedure could alleviate the persistent challenge of measuring key features of electron behavior while designing the ever-shrinking components that allow cell phones, laptops and tablets to get increasingly thinner and more energy efficient.
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- Philadelphia Geek Award Winners 2013
  
  August 19, 2013
  In a strong showing for some of Drexel University’s best and brightest, Frank Lee, an associate professor in Westphal and director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, and undergraduate digital media student Greg Lobanov were among the winners at the 2013 Philadelphia Geek Awards.
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- Double Lives Series: Jay Rappaport Soups Up Power Wheels
  
  August 14, 2013
  Find out what the manager of Westphal's IT Department does in his free time. Hint: His creations flash and go very, very fast.
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- 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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- 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 Professors Among 2013 Philadelphia Geek Awards Nominees
  
  July 08, 2013
  Nominees for the 2013 Philadelphia Geek Awards are in. Among the field for this year’s recognition of local ingenuity, intellect and innovation are Drexel’s Dr. Frank Lee, an associate professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, and undergraduate digital media student Greg Lobanov.
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- what-im-reading-hughes
  
  July 01, 2013
  Lately, College of Engineering Dean Joseph Hughes has been “enthralled” with the notion of what makes an “educated person” in today’s world. He’s looking to old college textbooks for answers. And, for some lighter reading, he’s working his way through (for a third time) The Journey Through Risk and Fear, by Flyers goalie and Hall of Fame icon Bernie Parent.
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