Grand Challenges High School Posted10/2/2020 10:00:11 AM Students at Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, WA and Thomas A. Edison High School in Fairfax, VA work to address the National Academy of Engineering's 14 Grand Challenges and engineer a better world.Working with schools to incorporate STEM education in order to address these grand challenges is one of the goals of the 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit.The 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS), jointly organized by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, will be held July 18-20, 2017, on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The GGCS series aims to spark global collaborations that lead to innovative ways of addressing critically important engineering challenges and opportunities and inspiring the next generation of change makers. Posted byRaluca Barbulescu Read More Comments0
Wearable Sensors to Predict COVID-19 Infections in US Military Hospitals Posted9/30/2020 11:26:40 AM he Pentagon invested in new wearable COVID-19 sensors developed with a healthtech firm for deployment to military hospitals in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. Posted byRaluca Barbulescu Read More Comments1
Artificial Brains Need Sleep Just as Much as Regular Brains Do Posted9/30/2020 11:23:02 AM Sleep-like states may help neural networks regain clear stability after continuous self-learning cycles. Posted byRaluca Barbulescu Read More Comments0
New research leads to lighter and greener bridges Posted9/30/2020 11:17:44 AM The past 60 years have not seen any fundamental change to the design of bridge decks for suspensions bridges—best known in Denmark from the Great Belt Link. To accommodate the request for ever longer bridges, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and COWI studied how to optimize ... Posted byRaluca Barbulescu Read More Comments0
