Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Connecting Big Data
    The government agency tasked with seemingly impossible technical projects – DARPA – is engineering a way to understand extremely complex systems…like climate, economics, and disease.
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  • Safe Cyberspace
    With all the stories about cyber-crime, are you terrified to click on email attachments or links? A Fairfax company says its new technology can delete the fear.
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  • Personal Thermostat
    You’ve probably been in an office where the temperature setting’s way too cold…or on an overheating plane stuck on the tarmac. Enter the personal thermostat.
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  • Smart Building
    Virginia Tech’s new engineering building is equipped with more than two-hundred vibration sensors, likely a record. They can reveal more than you might think.
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  • Smart Sleep
    You’ve probably heard that keeping a smart phone by your bedside can interrupt sleep, but there may soon be an upside to that habit.
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  • Radiation Belt
    In a nuclear accident or attack, first responders can be exposed to high levels of radioactive material. Heavy shielding has been impractical, but a new device could save their lives.
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  • Spotting Energy Leaks
    In this cold weather, the last thing you want is for your house to leak heat. A new technology can pinpoint problems in houses as it passes through a neighborhood.
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  • 3-D Printing Blood Vessels
    Printing 3-D objects is becoming more commonplace…and now researchers are trying to use such techniques to make working biological organs. But there’s a catch.
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  • Genetic Clocks
    We simultaneously celebrate as the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Day. Now bacteria are being engineered to do something similar.
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