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Best of 2011: Our Top Stories
2011 was another busy year for engineers all over the world. From inventing a device that turns air into water to exploring the oceans in a tiny submarine, scientists and engineers are exploring...
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Power Up on the Floor
Anyone who’s ever worked up a sweat running for the school bus knows it takes energy to move. Now, a young inventor in England has come up with a way to capture the ambient kinetic energy of...
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Jump Shot: Panoramas Made Easy
As breathtaking as large, panoramic photos often are, the process of creating them is, to many photographers, a much less attractive prospect. While painstakingly stitching together images from a...
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Trailblazer: Ayanna Howard
Science fiction stories have served as inspiration for many a brilliant engineer, and Ayanna Howard is no exception. At age 11 she discovered the show Bionic Woman, where a badly injured athlete is...
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Student Inventors: Manu Sharma
Manu Sharma and his innovative wind turbine Ever dreamed of becoming an entrepreneur? If so, you’re in good company – over half of U.S. millennials (ages 18 to 34) say they want to start a business or...
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And Now: An LED-Encrusted Snowboarding Suit
Eye-popping spectacles often require a lot of engineering to produce, as is evident in this latest viral video, entitled L.E.D. Surfer: What you are seeing is pro snowboarder William Hughes taking to...
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Bye, Bye Blues?
Millions of people – up to 25 percent of those living in nontropical regions – get the blues during winter. Current treatment for seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, requires shining a light in the...
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Britain’s Bionic Athlete Claire Lomas
Attention Iron Man fans. Powered suits of armor like the one designed by fictional industrialist/engineer Tony Stark may soon save or improve the lives of real people. In 2011, a motorized exoskeleton...
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Talk to the Hand
Guest author Felix Tang is an engineering student at the University of British Columbia. He created this post for senior instructor Annette Berndt’s technical writing class. People always imagine...
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An Eye for Engineering
Guest author Ruth (Siang Nuk) Tie is an engineering student at the University of British Columbia. She created this post for senior instructor Annette Berndt’s technical writing class. I was born and...
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