Here Comes the Sun
David Blittersdorf, MDE '77, in front of one of his AllSun Trackers. Photo: Caleb Kenna. DAVID BLITTERSDORF’S NEW OFFICE DOESN’T look lived in yet. It’s mid-April, and just a few weeks earlier, his...
View ArticleThe Hydrogen Engine That Could
John Koopman standing in front a fueling station. Photo: Bob Handelman John Koopman, MPE ’83, is trying to make the smallest atom the next big thing in cars. As a senior engineering technician at...
View ArticleFrom Bottom of the Ocean to Top Gun
Ed Liston, MPE ’66 As hard as it is to imagine that a staple of the snail diet can fuel a fighter jet, Ed Liston, MPE ’66, COO of Plankton Power, says algae is just that kind of magic microbe. In...
View ArticleJoint Venture
Photo by Mark Wilson The problem with knee replacements, says John Slamin, MDE ’74, is that they are just that—replacements. “An off-the-shelf knee is a very loose interpretation of what a knee is,”...
View ArticleCrash Sight
Anthony Bocchichio, BMET ’03, can tell when you’re lying—and he wouldn’t even need to see your face or hear your voice. He’d just need to check out your car. As a mechanical engineer with CED...
View ArticleCoaster Connoisseur
Derek Poitras, BMET ’14, is an amusement park authority. His various park visits total as many as 20 a year, he cofounded his own amusement park fan site, and he has already graduated from the Disney...
View ArticleGetting Fresh
When Phil Carbone’s mother recently mentioned that her refrigerator had broken, he made her a deal: “I’ll buy you one,” he said, “but I’m going to modify it.” She knew her son loved to tinker, so she...
View ArticleSafety First
piece / When motorcycles dump (biker speak for “fall over”) or crash, riders can be pinned under a still-spinning wheel without a way to shut off the bike’s engine solution / Build a depressible kill...
View ArticlePreparing for Liftoff at SpaceX
From the moment Andrew Thompson, BMET ’11, walked into the headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) in September 2010, he was fully immersed in the future of space travel....
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