Recently added articles from ASEE Prism:
A SMALL WORLD, GETTING SMALLER
Jan 01, 2009; ... SOME 30 YEARS AGO, Marshall McLuhan declared that in the 20th-century electronic age, the world had become a global village. McLuhan, author, communications theorist, and, briefly, an engineer- ing major, wrote that electronic technologies would allow collapse of space and time. Today, the ...
ABCs of Pollution
Jan 01, 2009; ... ENVIRONMENT Scientists call them atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs). They're noxious plumes of soot, sulfates, and other chemicals that are darkening skies over Asia, threatening water and agriculture, disturbing the monsoon system, and shrinking glaciers and snowpacks - not to mention ...
Britannia Rules the Whirl
Jan 01, 2009; ... TURBINES The queen of England already owns countless acres of land in the United Kingdom, and quite a few buildings, too. Now she owns the world's largest wind turbine. Under construction in northern England by Clipper Windpower of California, the 10-megawatt behemoth will tower 574 feet ...
Street Smarts
Jan 01, 2009; ... GEOTECHNOLOGY OK, you're walking down a street, and you point your cellphone at a movie theater. Onto your screen flashes a list of what's playing and the running times. You point it at a restaurant. It shows you the menu. When you point it at an office building, you get a directory of ...
Growing Dry
Jan 01, 2009; ... BIOENGINEERING Drought - partly caused by global warming - is becoming a worldwide plague. The amount of drought-affected land has doubled since the late 1970s. So genetic engineers at universities around the world, as well as at companies like Monsanto and DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred, are ...