Information
- Location:
- College Station, TX
Fans
6 of 50 fansSee All
Favorite Pages
Notes
3 of 103 notesSee All
- Moon power 8:00pm Dec 29
- Turning down the lights 1:30pm Dec 22
- High-tech rehabilitation 2:49pm Dec 15
When astronauts move in with the man in the moon in a few years, they’re going to need power. Nuclear energy on the moon. We’ll check it out. Today, on Engineering Works! W...
Paris may be the city of lights, but engineers in France are trying a new way to reduce municipal electric bills. Streetlights. Today, on Engineering Works! It’s not Paris, but people in the French city of Toulouse still like to have their streets lit at night. There’s a problem, though. Th...
(/episodephotos/3-05-08-zeolites.jpg) Today, we’re going to meet a rock, a talented rock called a zeolite. On Engineering Works! To most of us, a rock is a rock. But imagine an odd rock with a network of pores so small they can trap molecules, even atoms. Or t...
(/episodephotos/2-13-08radioactive-coal.jpg) There’s radiation all around us. And in some strange places. We’ll look, today on Engineering Works! First, a question: would you rather live next door to a coal-fired power plant or a nuclear-powered one? You’d p...
Usually, engineers are the good guys. Sometimes they’re not. We’ll see, today on Engineering Works! (/episod...
Photo: Elizabeth Lockwood/health.mil Soldiers and Marines fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the news almost every day. Some are wounded. Badly. We’ll look at how engineers are helping them put their lives back together. Today, on Engineering Works! ...
Image: bigod/Flickr.com Nuclear energy has been in the doghouse for decades. But now it’s getting another look from policy-makers. We’ll look, too. Today, on Engineering Works! People in the United States have always been a little skittish about nuclear energy. Accident...
#160; Image: Dieter Drescher Wersquo;ve all come across things that just donrsquo;t make sense, even though they work. Engineers do, too. Wersquo;ll look at one, today on Engineering Works...
#160; Photo: The hammering that Hurricane Katrina gave New Orleans isnrsquo;t news anymore. Engineers are building something they say will keep it that way. Itrsquo;s a pump. A big pump. Today, on Engineering Works...
#160; Image: National Human Genome Research Institute Just when you were getting used to the idea of genetic engineering, therersquo;s something new. Wersquo;ll take a look. Today, on Engineering Works...
