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Welcome back from Spring break. We have a busy quarter ahead of us and we're looking forward to seeing our students, faculty and professional staff back on campus. During Spring break, the CoE team was hard at work in the community developing plans for exciting events while furthering innovative research. We're pleased to announce Drexel will be partnering with more than 55 organizations for the first annual Philadelphia Science Festival (PSF). We encourage you to come out for PSF where we'll be hosting interactive science and engineering activities throughout the City. In addition to the PSF, we'll be hosting the Greater Philadelphia Sea Perch Underwater Robotics Competition and the Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge races. We'll be cheering on our Dragons as they contend for a spot in the national Concrete Canoe races. Also, it is with great sadness that we announce the loss of alumnus and Internet pioneer, Paul Baran. Mr. Baran is a role model for our engineers. His legacy of engineering will live on in CoE.
Dr. Bruce Eisenstein
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Alumnus and Internet Pioneer, Paul Baran, Dies At Age 84
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Drexel alumnus Paul Baran, an engineer who helped create the technical underpinnings for the Arpanet, the government-sponsored precursor to today's Internet, died Saturday night at his home in Palo Alto, California. He was 84. A native of Poland who graduated from Drexel with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1949 and received an honorary degree in 1997, Baran is credited with helping to develop packet-switching technology in 1962. Packet-switching enables information to be divided into small packets that are addressed, sent to several destinations to increase the odds the information will actually arrive and, finally, reassembled. Packet-switching laid the foundation for the Internet to develop. Read more.
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Drexel to Host Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge Competition
|  Drexel's American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) will host more than 250 engineering students from regional schools in the 2011 ASCE Mid-Atlantic Student Conference on Drexel's campus in Philadelphia, PA, April 15-17 for the Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge competitions. The Concrete Canoe competition is split into four different grading categories, each weighing at 25 percent of the final score. The categories are a design paper, oral presentations, aesthetics and durability and races. The Steel Bridge Competition offers another opportunity for Drexel students to challenge their building skills. At the conference, the bridges must be constructed in a time trial. Read more. |
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Drexel to Launch Philadelphia Science Festival Partnership
Drexel University will partner with more than 55 organizations to launch the Philadelphia Science Festival, a two-week initiative to celebrate the region's strengths in science and technology April 16-28. The city-wide event will include a line-up of programs and exhibitions designed to inspire the next generation of scientists. Drexel will host carnival booths, neighborhood science and high school outreach events throughout the City, a day of Science at the ballpark and a joint event with the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Read more.
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Students Develop Music Playing Robot
|  Alyssa Batula (ECE), a graduate student, developed a music-playing humanoid, or robot, equipped to play popular songs on the piano. Batula and collaborators led by Dr. Youngmoo Kim (ECE), are working towards using the robot as an interactive part of a live music ensemble. This robot can play and dance to music but is also being used for research in studying musicians and their gestures and how this in turn affects the quality of a performance. Read more.
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Dr. Christopher Li Receives NSF Special Creativity Award
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Dr. Christopher Li (MSE) has been awarded the NSF Special Creativity Award for "special creativity based on outstanding scientific and technical progress achieved under a parent grant." Li has been specifically recognized for excellence in research on polymer/nanotube hybrid materials and the broad impacts emanating from his current NSF grant, "Carbon Nanotube Induced Polymer Crystallization, Structure and Morphology." The award extends his current grant by two years at $115,000 per year. His work with interface engineering has the potential to lead to more fuel efficient airplanes, applications in sporting goods and smaller electronic devices. Read more.
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