Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Capturing Heat Energy
    Wouldn’t it be great if we could re-capture some of the energy used on all those holiday lights? A newly engineered material may allow waste heat to be turned into energy at unprecedented efficiencies.
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  • Traffic Engineering
    The Sunday drive home from a holiday can be filled with unpleasant surprises, like bad traffic on usually fast moving back roads and highways.
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  • Digital Age Cooking
    Thanksgiving dinner could one day go high tech. A digital revolution in cooking might make even the worst cook's food perfect every time.
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  • Communicating Cars
    Maybe your car already has sensors to detect some hazards…but soon it could be communicating with other cars and traffic signals to help you avoid accidents.
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  • Scared Healthy
    Halloween is every day at a medical center where doctors are using the latest virtual reality technology to scare people, on the way to curing them.
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  • Ethical Robots
    In the midst of the debate over use of unmanned drones, a computer scientist says robots might actually be programmed with ethics…to save lives.
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  • Stress Sensor
    It’s not always easy to know when a person is agitated or excited. Sometimes you may not even know when you are. So a new wearable device has been engineered to detect stress, bad or good.
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  • Cancer on a Chip
    Cancer cells can take over your body when they evolve in ways that make them resistant to chemotherapy drugs. A new lab technique is shedding light on the process.
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  • Foldit
    This week, researchers reported a key step toward a possible treatment for AIDS…and it was discovered by players of a computer game.
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