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Engineering Innovation
By The National Academy of EngineeringTechnology
Engineering Innovation episodes
- Growing TeethDon?t throw out those wisdom teeth so fast. Promising research suggests they may one day help replace teeth lost in adulthood.0 min
- Artificial TreesYou?ll remember from school?trees take up carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Might an answer to global warming be to engineer artificial trees?0 min
- Brain EngineeringDevices implanted in the brain are being used to treat various diseases. Could they also be used to improve our minds?0 min
- Concrete Plans for Global WarmingThe most widely used man-made material is concrete. It?s ingeniously simple, basically just mix water with cement. But there?s a problem.0 min
- Future HouseYour future house might be constructed in multiple locations, then the pieces simply sent to your lot and attached together.0 min
- Arsenic Water FilterA local professor just won a big prize?one million dollars?for a simple system that helps prevent the slow poisoning of tens of millions of people.0 min
- Nano ShieldResearchers are looking for better ways to protect troops. Even wearing body armor, soldier's limbs are often left unprotected from knives or bomb shrapnel.0 min
- Spotting a Suspicious SwaggerSurveillance video can detect suspicious actions, but now a system is being designed to spot less obvious threats, and identify people even when it can?t see a face.0 min
- Nanotechnology Cancer TreatmentImagine a one-time cancer treatment without side-effects or surgery. That?s the promise of a new nanotechnology.0 min
- Extremely Local ForecastsThose who need to quickly respond to storms ? like road and utility crews, and first responders ? have a new tool for getting a jump on the weather.0 min
About Engineering Innovation
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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.