Engineers need a wide-ranging set of skills to be successful. Not only do engineers need to excel in math and science, but they also need to be team players and have great writing skills. Last week the Oredigger interviewed two Ford engineers working on the new Ford Fusion that embody these skills and more.
Dr. Margret Cheney of Colorado State University presented on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology, which is used heavily in the astronomy field, and uses antennas and pulsing radio waves to capture images of distant objects that a digital camera is unable to capture. To display some of the uses for SAR, Cheney showed several images ranging from copper mines in Chile, to oil spills in the ocean, to topographical images in California. She related the process to seismic imaging, a model often used in the field of geophysics.
One of the innumerable joys of space is its size. Even if humanity picks up its exploration effort by many orders of magnitude, there will always be some foreign star system worth looking at a little closer. Unfortunately, its immense size is also a difficulty in exploration efforts.
Every student that has lived in one of the residence halls on campus would describe it as being an “educational experience.” Residence life began a new program this year that hopes to put students with similar interests together to create a non-academic learning environment. According to the residence life website, this theme housing option “[allows] students with common interests and pursuits to live together and support each other through planned activities and informal interactions.”
Seismic imaging studies of near-surface geology are difficult to perform, due to the inherent problems associated with current technology. Rick Miller of the University of Kansas visited the Colorado School of Mines last week to present the latest research on taking ground data using near-surface seismic readings.
In a service based economy, such as the United States, transportation is the most energy consuming component. Transportation links energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Over the last century, transportation has increased creating a host of problems, such as the increased use of petroleum. Such rises in energy use make transportation a significant contributor to the emissions of greenhouse gasses and energy use.
Hinxton, United Kingdom – According to a new study by a group of bioinformaticians, the human genome is more than just genes. Bioinformaticians study DNA and how the DNA stores information for the creation of cells. This particular group “took apart” the genome, and discovered that the four “letter” building blocks (A,T,C,G) of DNA actually only compose up to about 2% of the genome. They determined that the building-block letters were partly controlled by the rest of the genome, leading them to believe that the genome also switches the building-block molecules on and off, determining what type of cell the DNA will create.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a congressional order declaring the Haqqani network a terrorist organization. The Pakistani-based organization is responsible for many violent attacks on American troops in Afghanistan. It is unclear at this point how the Pakistani government will respond to this move by the United States. The State Department believes this will cut off some of the funding to the organization from countries such as Saudi Arabia.
The Grand Army of the Republic conducted a parade that “loosened the hearts of the Queen City and the Centennial State until the mountains re-echoed the songs of battle and the cheers of the multitude,” reported “The Colorado Transcript” this week in 1905. The paper continued, arguing that the parade would “be written of in years to come as the one that had no flaw.”