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The Triangle Live – Engineers Week Egg Drop

In this episode of The Triangle Live, we bring you to the action of Drexel’s most exciting Engineers Week event, the egg drop. 16 teams of student engineers were challenged with making contraptions to cushion an egg and protect it from two free falls in Bossone’s third-floor atrium. Janette Danella talks to two of these [...]

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CoE struck with abrupt death of colleague

The College of Engineering’s computer science department lost an important member of its community when Werner Krandick died March 26 after unexpectedly collapsing during a bike ride. “Unfortunately, the exact cause is unknown. He was biking, and for unknown reasons, his heart stopped and he never regained consciousness,” Jeremy Johnson, professor and the computer science [...]

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CoE to welcome new dean in 2012

Joseph B. Hughes, Ph.D., will enter his post as dean of Drexel University’s College of Engineering Jan. 15, 2012, President John A. Fry announced in an email to the University community Nov. 30. Hughes currently serves as Karen and John Huff School Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is both a professor of [...]

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Shuttle Atlantis launches with Drexel grad commander

Students from the Drexel University College of Engineering watch the the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, July 8, 2011 in the lobby of Bossone Auditorium. Drexel engineering alumnus Christopher Ferguson, ’84, is the commander of STS-115, the final mission of the space shuttle program. For more information on the flight: Students design patch [...]

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CoE solar prototype wins first

Seniors from Drexel’s College of Engineering received first place honors in the solar car prototype category at the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas competition held in Houston, Texas, April 14-15. The team consisted of senior mechanical engineering majors David Ho, Vincent Tancredi, Shuiqiang Lin, John Toal, Ishin Ueyama, Chun Yao Ker, and senior electrical engineering majors Asaf [...]

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Drexel wins big for design project

A team of six Drexel engineering and architecture students won three awards for their senior design project at the second annual American Society of Civil Engineers Charles Pankow Foundation Annual Architectural Engineering Student Competition March 31 in Oakland, Calif. James Achey, Andrea Christiani, Joshua Lessard, Michael Snader, Alex Stadel and Alisha Strayer, a group of [...]

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