Posts tagged engineering
Top 10 Alberta engineering and geoscience marvels to visit this summer

All around us are examples of the kind of ingenuity and expertise demonstrated by Alberta’s professional engineers and geoscientists. Whether you are taking a stroll in your downtown or taking a road trip across our province, here are 10 spectacles that wouldn't have been possible without professional engineers and geoscientists.

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How engineers developed a self-aware and self-powered material

Imagine if a bridge or a heart stent could provide advanced warning long before any potential issues arose. The Intelligent Structural Monitoring and Response Testing (iSMaRT) Lab at the University of Pittsburgh designed a whole new class of materials that is seemingly self-aware — and self-powered!

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How a civil engineer uses his bass guitar to test flood resiliency

When a crucial piece to his dike safety experiment didn’t arrive, civil engineer Juan Aguilar-López decided to improvise. He used his bass guitar and amp to create sound vibrations that could be detected by light emitting fibre optic senors. Through this experiment, Aguilar-López could inspect the dikes, measuring water pressure and detecting where the dikes might be vulnerable to a breach.

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How aerospace engineers are taking inspiration from octopus for new colour changing gel

Cephalopods often baffle scientists with their unique characteristics — especially the way their skin changes colour. For octopus, in particular, this colour change is akin to a muscle reflex, controlled by multiple brains throughout its body.

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Five structures that could have changed the world — but were never built

Across the world, architectural marvels have astounded people with their majesty and complexity. But history is also rife with marvels that never-were and could have changed much of the world today. Here are five structures that were never completed but could have had a lasting impact on history.

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How biomedical engineers are improving our understanding of a child’s developing mind

It’s hard enough getting a baby to sit still for a meal or a photo — imagine trying to get them to stay still for an MRI! For years, researchers have struggled to capture images of infants' brains to better understand how their minds develop and, in turn, catch developmental delays early on.

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How materials engineers are advancing global agriculture

Even the most drought-ridden environments could see a boom in agricultural production thanks to a group of materials engineers from the University of Texas at Austin. The team recently published an article in ACS Materials Letters about its atmospheric water irrigation system.

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The Great Escape: 30 years later, tunnels under Berlin Wall open to the public

Marking the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, a symbol that long-represented the stark divide with communist-led East Germany, a newly discovered escape tunnel was opened to the public in November 2019.

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The most talked-about engineering and geoscience stories of 2019

A spinal micro-implant that helps paralysis patients regain motor functions. A coal processing plant now serving as a solar power facility. A liquid polymer that can move and grab objects. These are five of the most talked about engineering and geoscience stories of 2019.

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