• 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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    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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