The Alumni Cup challenges undergraduate student teams from each of the school’s eight departments to design and build a Rube Goldberg-inspired machine that can accomplish a simple task. With two weeks and just $100, teams work around the clock to deliver complex, elaborate contraptions that ooze creativity and team spirit as much as engineering prowess.
Chunsheng Wang and his team have developed new electrolytes for safer and greater storage capacity batteries that can operate at extreme temperatures. Wang and a group of researchers described in the journal Nature a new class of soft solvating electrolytes that allows for fast recharging and operation of a lithium battery under a wide temperature variation.
Thousands of residents of rural and coastal areas face a potential sanitation crisis as rising sea levels put a strain on aging septic tank systems, according to Allison Reilly, who is leading an Environmental Protection Agency-funded (EPA) study of the problem. More than 52,000 homes in Maryland rely on septic and are within 1,000 feet of tidally-influenced water.
Each year, Terps Racing students design, build, test, and then race the cars they’ve created. In order to do well at these nation-wide competitions, Terps Racing needs a reliable trailer—capable of transporting the team, their equipment, and their car. Thanks to a generous donation from L3Harris, Terps Racing purchased a brand-new 24-foot trailer. Now, they’ll be able to attend future competitions with increased functionality and style.
Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited Maryland Engineering on Monday, February 27, sharing his technical expertise and speaking about his ordeal with the United States Department of Justice's China Initiative. "I am the luckiest of the unlucky ones," Chen said. He started his remarks with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Gisela Kusakawa, executive director of the Asian-American Scholar Forum, joined Chen for a panel conversation about supporting scholars and researchers in an ever-changing geopolitical environment.
American history features examples of women making great strides—and taking great risks—to move our country forward. To this day, women continue to shape history, including at the Clark School of Engineering. This month we celebrate those landmarks and the work necessary to forge them, and how it’s incumbent upon our larger community to assist in this work.