Summer Engineering program at the University of Rhode Island

11/15/2015

Summer Engineering 2016: Program announcement

June 27 - July 22, 2016

Please visit www.egr.uri.edu/summer for details.

Spread the word ?

01/30/2015

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-car-of-the-future-may-run-on-gas-1422646049

The car of the future is here, and has been ...

For all the talk of electric cars, the old-fashioned internal combustion engine is proving to be hard to beat.

01/30/2015

Building Bridges - faster, longer, stronger and cheaper

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150122084547.htm

Civil Engineers and pre-cast concrete specialists have developed the world’s longest ‘flat pack’ arch bridge.

01/28/2015

Building Bridges:

From June 28 - July 24, students from Pakistan, India and the US will work together on engineering projects at the University of Rhode Island, engaging in creative fun with scientific principles and engineering processes mixed in for a unique educational experience. Our weekend and after hours activities will take the students to Boston, New York, Providence and other regional cultural and technical centers. Of course, the beaches of Rhode Island are just a few miles away...

07/24/2014

Students are hard at work designing and building trebuchets.

Caution: Trebuchet Construction in Progress. Students in URI Summer Engineering Academy are constructing a set of trebuchets as part of this educational camp that blends fun and engineering learning.

05/17/2014

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303851804579558370315425370?mod=WSJ_hp_Asia_EditorsPicks&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303851804579558370315425370.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_hp_Asia_EditorsPicks

For a multibillion-dollar public-works project called the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement, this city brought in a digging machine touted as the largest deployed anywhere: a 7,000-ton behemoth nicknamed "Bertha." The problem is the project stalled out shortly after starting.

04/04/2014

found the error: The correct answer is calculated when you use the Calculate command - this is strange because the column totals are calculated automatically, but the row totals have to be recalculated explicitly ??? Odd...

04/04/2014

Excel error ?
if you have Excel 2013, try summing a horizontal row using either the sum function or by the expanded notation (a+b+c+d ...).
Does Excel 2013 compute the sum correctly ? please post your answers here ?

03/17/2014

Does it pay to study Engineering ?
check this out:

http://online.wsj.com/news/interactive/BISALARYchrt?ref=SB10001424052702303880604579405401129180782

02/18/2014

GM gets on the bandwagon, or the truck ?

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303491404579391144135588938?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303491404579391144135588938.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

General Motors is accelerating efforts to field a largely aluminum-bodied pickup truck by late 2018, shifting direction in the wake of Ford's embrace of the metal in its coming 2015 F-150.

02/16/2014

Another topic for discussion in Summer: fusion powered flashlights ?

http://rt.com/usa/fusion-energy-power-ignition-806/

A team of scientists in California announced Wednesday they are one step closer to developing the almost mythical pollution-free, controlled fusion-energy reaction, though the goal of full “ignition” is still far off.

02/15/2014

Yet More Al - we will study this metal in detail in the summer school. an "my more Al" story. (I have a day job!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/automobiles/a-luxury-class-metal-is-asked-to-do-farm-chores.html?hp

Ford is using aluminum, which is often found in Audis and Jaguars, in the body of its new F-150, a workhorse of a truck whose customers care about pulling power and payloads.