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Welcome back from the break. To start off the quarter, CoE is taking a leadership role in the community around Drexel. In keeping with the University's mission to help our neighbors, we're providing Internet access, training and technology through our Freedom Rings Partnership to communities across Philadelphia. The project was launched on Martin Luther King Day, January 17, and I'm particularly proud to announce that an ECE undergraduate, Brian Dolhansky, developed an iPhone app for the 2011 Martin Luther King Day of Service. The app helped our community find volunteer opportunities in the neighborhood. Our service in the community continues as our MSE department hosts a Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day for local schools. We encourage you to join us for this event and we look forward to 2011 and the great things to come in CoE.
Dr. Bruce Eisenstein
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41% of Philadelphians do not have access to the internet. Drexel is changing this by providing training and computers as part of the Freedom Rings Partnership. Read more.
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Drexel Celebrates National Engineers Week
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 CoE will host its 2011 National Engineers Week celebration February 21-25. This nationally recognized week raises public awareness regarding the important contributions engineers bring to all aspects of life. CoE will hold a variety of events during the week to promote recognition among parents, teachers and students of the significance of a technical education in an effort to motivate youth to pursue engineering and technology careers. For more information on CoE's Engineers Week and the full schedule, please click here.
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Drexel to Host Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day
 Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania departments of Materials Science and Engineering are partnering with WGBH/NOVA, the Materials Research Society and the University of Pennsylvania's LRSM and Nano/Bio Interface Center to host Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day. Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day will introduce the public to materials that are stronger, smaller, cleaner and smarter than ever, all featured materials in the MAKING STUFF series. The day will explore faculty and student-led demonstrations as well as faculty talks about materials. Read more.
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| Senior Design Team Makes a Difference in Thailand |  The members of the Thai Harvest Initiative are dedicating their senior design project to helping the farmers in the Bo Klua region of Thailand. Using an engineering approach called "Technology Seeding," they will design and help implement small-scale, simple and affordable tools that the farmers in this region can use.Working on the project are senior Mechanical Engineering students RJ Bauer, Maria LaPosta, Kathleen Rizzo and Biomedical Engineering senior Phuong Diep-Lam and Graphic Design senior Kathryn VenVertloh. Dr. James Tangorra, (MEM) and Alex Moseson are advising them on this influential project. Read more.
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| Drexel Launches Freedom Rings Partnership Sustainable Broadband Adoption Program |  Drexel University kicked off the Freedom Rings Partnership Sustainable Broadband Adoption Program January 17 at Girard College during the Martin Luther King Day of Service. To kick-off the partnership, Drexel hosted a series of events that included refurbishing 100 computers provided by people in the community to donate to neighbors in Mantua, Powelton and other parts of Philadelphia for use; on-site training for residents on computer technology; a "Race to Connect" contest that had residents using technology including Facebook, Twitter and general search engines on the Internet and digital technology literacy packets that provided information on how to use computer technology. Through this program, Drexel will provide broadband education, awareness, training and access for public housing residents of the community. Read more.
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Dr. Patricia Gallagher Helps Raise Endangered Whooping Cranes
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Dr. Patricia Gallagher (CAEE) has taken time off from her teaching duties as professor at Drexel to help raise and train the endangered whooping crane chicks. With a total world population of less than 600, the whooping crane is the most famous critically endangered bird in North America. Operation Migration and the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership are doing their part to save the species by raising the whooping crane chicks for reintroduction to the eastern part of the country. The juvenile cranes are taught the migration route in the fall and return to the nesting grounds unaided the following spring. Dr. Gallagher joined Operation Migration as part of the ground crew to teach the chicks the migrate route from Wisconsin to Florida. Read more.
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