Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Engineering Innovation
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Engineering Innovation
By The National Academy of EngineeringTechnology
Engineering Innovation episodes
- Mind ReadingBrain trauma, from injury or disease, can cause people to forget things that happened only moments before. One engineer thinks he can help…by generating those memories through computer chips.0 min
- Reinventing the TransistorTransistors are the basic building blocks of electronics. In other words, they make the modern world run. Problem is they leak a lot of energy.0 min
- Super Halftime ShowThe staging for tonight’s halftime show needs to be fully set up in the middle of the football field in about seven minutes. And that’s just one of the challenges.0 min
- Slowing the Big Melt 2There is broad scientific agreement that the best approach to prevent global warming, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels is to lower greenhouse gas emissions.0 min
- Slowing the Big Melt 1Despite this weekend’s snow, 2015 was the warmest year since records have been kept…and ice at Earth’s poles are melting, raising fears of damaging sea level rise.0 min
- Disguising DrugsEngineers have come up with a new way to deliver cancer-fighting medicines. They’re disguising them as red blood cells.0 min
- MicrogridsHackers may have caused a recent widespread power blackout in Ukraine. Such massive outages might be prevented by innovations coming from Alaska.0 min
- Communicating Climate CuresEven with the recent Paris agreement on climate change, a big hurdle to finding solutions remains…simply getting people to talk about the issue.0 min
- Separating SaltAccess to clean, salt-free water is challenging in many parts of the world. A new system may make desalination of water easier.0 min
- Pill for Vital SignsFor extended monitoring of vital signs, soon you may not have to strap things to the outside of your body. You could just swallow a pill.0 min
About Engineering Innovation
From the publisher's feed
The National Academy of Engineering has worked with the Washington, D.C. region's most listened-to radio station — the all-news format WTOP…
Radio — and the nation's only radio station specifically dedicated to covering news related to the federal government — WFED 1500 AM — To provide weekly features highlighting engineering innovations and stories that add technical context to issues in the news. Hear some of our stories in the links below.