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Skunk Works
Kelly Johnson to the Rescue
Though the urgency for the Shooting Star might have been exaggerated, the Nazi threat, coupled with Johnson’s peculiar characteristics, was perhaps the only way such a unique operation might ever have been formed in the first place.
The Wrestler
Balancing Olympic Training and Astronaut Ambitions
In between problem sets, design projects and exams this academic year, the rising star trained for Olympic tryouts. |Long Read
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Lights Out
A Dramatization of Disaster and the Science Behind It
Eighteen hours before the power went out, scientists reported an enormous solar flare. |Long Read
An Unlikely Partnership
It seemed like a simple project to help a village get clean water. Things aren’t always as simple as they seem.
Three University of Michigan students, members of an engineering student team called BLUElab, have come to Chaguitón to learn more about the village’s reported water problems and perhaps design a solution. |Long Read
Is It Time to Get Serious About Geoengineering?
As climate change looms, can we afford to take controversial ideas off the table?
Several techniques fall under the umbrella term “geoengineering,” a field of study that focuses on limiting the effects of climate change by deliberately manipulating the earth’s climate system. |Long Read
Out of the #Flood
Local kids cool off in Ciliwung River in a neighborhood called Kampung Bukit Duri in Jakarta. Photo by Marcin Szczepanski
In the face of disaster, a city’s social media is saving lives and infrastructure. Is this just the beginning for crowd-sourced salvation? |Long Read
A Matter of Time
How the Internet of Things infiltrated one home, and what it could signal about the future of privacy and security.
How the Internet of Things infiltrated one home, and what it could signal about the future of privacy and security. |Long Read
How We Roll
Is America Ready for a Driverless Future?
Going driverless could be the biggest reboot of the American transportation system since the horse and buggy went the way of, well, the horse and buggy. Are we ready to make it happen? |Long Read
How the Net Was Won
The ARPANET came before it. And the World Wide Web and browser technology would later make it accessible for the masses. But in between, a small Ann Arbor-based group labored on the NSFNET in relative obscurity to build—and ultimately to save—the Internet. |Long Read
Making A Middle Class
Can engineering education lift Ethiopia? |Long Read
Artificial Intelligence
Can we create machines who learn like we do? |Long Read
Toilet to Table
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