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Baltimore shows off its manufacturing for visiting engineers
Men and women wearing hairnets, hard hats, safety glasses and bright-orange vests wended their way through Domino Sugars' Baltimore refinery Tuesday — there to look, not work. The manufacturing engineers and engineering students toured Domino as...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Technology, Travel, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Barack Obama
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Students build a wheelchair that can run (virtually) forever
HAMPTON — In his homeland of Turkey, Alper Sirvan cannot go anywhere without the assistance of his wheelchair. And his current wheelchair is not much help at all. Because of cerebral palsy, the only body part Sirvan can voluntarily move is his...
Tags: Education, Weather Reports, Students, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Teaching and Learning
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Digest: Russell takes Pimlico jockey title; Vazquez wins trainer crown
Pimlico Race Course Russell takes jockey title; Vazquez wins trainer crown The Pimlico Race Course spring meeting ended Saturday with jockey Sheldon Russell and trainer Juan Vazquez winning individual titles. The 36-day stand began April 4. Russell...Tags: Sheldon Russell, Major League Lacrosse, Milwaukee Brewers, Students, Laurel Park
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Scientists hope to predict tornadoes by using little drones
With tornadoes, advance warning comes down to minutes. In Moore, Okla., on May 20, it was 16 minutes. In Newcastle, to the southwest, near the spot where the deadly mile-wide tornado that killed 24 people first formed, it was five minutes. Tornadoes...
Tags: Military Equipment, Natural Disasters, Research, Air Transportation Delays, Safety of Citizens
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How I Made It: SpaceX exec Gwynne Shotwell
The gig: Gwynne Shotwell, 49, is president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, the Hawthorne company that builds rockets and space capsules to resupply the International Space Station for NASA. Shotwell is No. 2 at the pioneering company behind founder...
Tags: SpaceX, Satellite Technology, Automotive Equipment, Real Estate Sellers, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Robo Raven makes aviation history
Robo Raven is making aviation history – again. The robotic bird's maiden flights in December were a first in the history of flying machines, but lasted only seconds inside the Reckord Armory at the University of Maryland, College Park. Now the...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Colleges and Universities, Technology, Science and Technology
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Svend H. Nielsen
Svend H. Nielsen Svend H. Nielsen was born on August 1, 1919 in Kalundborg, Denmark and passed away early Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Balboa, California, at the age of 93. Svend received a Master of Science in Civil and Structural Engineering...
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Denmark, Science, Technology, Human Interest
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Researchers say they can hack Apple devices via charger
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThree computer security researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are rattling Apple Inc.'s cage, reporting that they have figured out how to hack into mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads through a USB charger. Chengyu Song and Yeongjin...Tags: Education, Computer Science, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Students, Personal Data Collection
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Wooden Floor raises the ceiling
Itzel Guerrero can't imagine her life without the Wooden Floor. She tries to picture it sometimes, but fails. Most likely, she doesn't want to. So many experiences during her 18 years have taken root in the nonprofit's Santa Ana campus, she admits....
Tags: Sage, New York University, Students, Financial Aid, Cornell University
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Concrete canoes returning to the Que for national competition
Daily American Staff Writer @DAPeteBosakJOHNSTOWN — The organization behind a national concrete canoe competition was so impressed with the Quemahoning Reservoir that it's bringing its national event back to Somerset County next year. Members of the Cambria Somerset Authority, which owns...Tags: University of Pittsburgh, Students, Building Material, Technology, Canoeing and Kayaking
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Norbert 'Chip' Zapinski, construction engineer, 1932-2013
Norbert "Chip" Zapinski's first big assignment as onsite project engineer was at Marina City, an ambitious project whose design was considered impossible to build by some critics. "His focus was on just getting it built," said his wife of 54 years,...
Tags: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Parkinson's Disease, Technology, Illinois General Assembly, University of Detroit Mercy
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Philadelphia building demolition contractor has criminal record for insurance fraud
The Philadelphia InquirerPHILADELPHIA The contractor hired to demolish the building at 2136-38 Market St. in Philadelphia has a criminal record stemming from a phony car-wreck scheme with a Philadelphia police officer, according to court records. And his demolition work next...Tags: Times Square, Insurance, Transportation Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, The Salvation Army
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