Engineer Dinner—Save the Environment?

Educating the Humanitarian Engineer

The creation of new technologies that serve humanity holds the potential to help end global poverty. Unfortunately, relatively little is done in engineering education to support engineers' humanitarian efforts. Here, various strategies are introduced to augment the teaching of engineering ethics with the goal of encouraging engineers to serve as effective volunteers for community service. First...

The Robot Engineer

We described preliminary work on designing a “robot engineer”. Somewhat similar to the idea of a robot scientist, the robot engineer is a closed-loop system that designs tools for a robot, and even complete robots, that are tested in simulation, manufactured and realised using 3D printing. The artefact is then evaluated on real-world tasks, feeding back to the original design. The system builds...

The Ohio State Engineer

Instructional & Technological Innovations to Attract & Retain Undergraduates to Engineer the Built Environment

1 Michael Garvin, Columbia University, 638 Mudd, MC 4709, 500 W. 120 th St., New York, NY 10027, [email protected] 2 Andrew Smyth, Columbia University, 636 Mudd, MC 4709, 500 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027, [email protected] 3 Peter Sommer, Columbia University, 603 Lewisohn, New York, NY 10027, [email protected] 4 Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, 840 Mudd, MC 4709, 500 W. 120 ...

The virus as metabolic engineer.

Recent genome-wide screens of host genetic requirements for viral infection have reemphasized the critical role of host metabolism in enabling the production of viral particles. In this review, we highlight the metabolic aspects of viral infection found in these studies, and focus on the opportunities these requirements present for metabolic engineers. In particular, the objectives and approach...