Better theater through engineering
Sydney Garick ’18 combined her mechanical engineering major with her interest in theater by building an LED panel—a floor with programmable lights—for the first all-student production of Fun Home, performed at the Off Broadway Theater. The stage, which was Garick’s senior project, was built in the Klingenstein Lab of the Center for Engineering Innovation & Design. Sometimes the LED lights were used for effect—adding some flash to a disco number, for instance. Other times, they took the shape of furniture and other objects.
DoD grant funds sediment movement research
Corey O’Hern, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, physics, and applied physics, has been awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program grant from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to study how sediment moves. O’Hern is developing a clearer picture of how sediment beds evolve and how to control those changes. Understanding the changes in fluid-driven granular beds could have a number of uses for the military and Army Corps of Engineers. For instance, it could help control the erosion near pilings of bridges and other large structures.
Middle schoolers learn engineering
The Yale chapter of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers hosted about 200 middle school students from across Connecticut this past spring to teach them about different types of engineering. The event, CT SEED (Connecticut Students Exploring Engineering Day), included lessons in biomedical engineering (building a mock endoscopic tool), electrical engineering (soldering LEDs and variable resistors to a printed circuit board), and environmental engineering (studying the properties of different materials through a structural design challenge). Members of a panel—an undergraduate student, a graduate student, and two professional engineers—discussed their paths to engineering.
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