http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/ The latest news stories from the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. marketing@mccormick.northwestern.edu Sat, 10 May 2008 20:41:06 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/368 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/368 Building on two local traditions with innovation and design at their cores -- Chicago's celebrated architecture and Northwestern University’s excellence in engineering -- the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern will offer a new undergraduate concentration in architectural engineering and design, beginning in fall 2008. Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/369 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/369 Mark Mills, businessman and author, spoke April 29 as part of the Dean's Seminar Series at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering. Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/370 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/370 It takes undergraduate teams months of work, weeks of reading, and endless hours of trial and error. But at stake is thousands of dollars in prizes and the glory of knowing they created what not so long ago took years of innovation - an autonomous robot capable of picking up balls and shooting them into an opponent's goal. Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/367 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/367 Students in the the study abroad program in global health technologies at the McCormick School of Engineering are currently working on projects in Cape Town, South Africa. McCormick students Jessica Frey, Alice Zhao, Kenny Kaiser, and Leah Carlson submit this update on their work on a TB Tracker. Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/366 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/366 Kimberly Gray, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, was recently selected as a 2008 Leopold Leadership Fellow. Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/365 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/365 Researchers at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have discovered a way for P2P users to efficiently identify nearby P2P clients in order to reduce costly cross-network traffic without sacrificing performance for the user. Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/364 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/364 Zdenek P. Bazant,, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, was in April elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/361 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/361 Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering, was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/356 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/356 Researchers at Northwestern University have used metallic nanotubes to make thin films that are semitransparent, highly conductive, flexible and come in a variety of colors, with an appearance similar to stained glass. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/354 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/354 Prem Kumar, the AT&T Professor of Information Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the director of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, and his research group recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing using entangled photons generated in optical fibers, and their research was published in the April 4 edition of Physical Review Letters. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/355 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/355 Fungi processing audio signals. E. Coli storing images. DNA acting as logic circuits. It's possible, and in some cases, it's already happened. Performing digital signal processing using organic and chemical materials without electrical currents could be the wave of the future - or so argue Sotirios Tsaftaris, research professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Aggelos Katsaggelos, Ameritech Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in their recently published "point of view" piece in the March 2008 edition of Proceedings of the IEEE. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/353 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/353 Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering at McCormick, collaborated with researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and with researchers in Korea and Singapore to develop a new kind of stretchable silicon integrated circuit. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/351 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/351 Messersmith wrote a Perspectives piece in the March 28 edition of Science, commenting on new research and potential uses for the amino acid. In the piece, Messersmith writes about research performed by Frank Zok and others at the University of California-Santa Barbara that shows how Dopa participates in building structural tissues. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/352 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/352 A research team from Northwestern University's Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine has created flexible yet strong sacs that self-assemble out of one polymer and one molecule and demonstrated that human stem cells will grow in them. The researchers also report that the sacs can survive for weeks in culture and that their membranes are permeable to proteins. Proteins, even large ones, can travel freely across the membrane. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/350 http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/350 A five-story addition to the Technological Institute will be built to house engineering life sciences programs at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University has announced. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500