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| October 2005 |
| Welcome to the University of Virginia's E-News Online, a monthly electronic
publication of the U.Va. Engineering School. Please take a moment
to explore the stories featured here. Read the online
version of Virginia
Engineering Magazine and the news posted on the Engineering
School Web site to learn even more. |
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If At First You Don't Succeed . Student's Vegetable-oil-powered Car Makes It From Virginia to Alaska and Back
Luke Scruby had his heart
set on traveling to Alaska this summer with his older
sister, Emily, and his friend Scott Wilcox. Their goal
was to see some of the country's most stunning scenery
and demonstrate the viability of biofuel. Luke's first
attempt in a 1984 diesel-powered school bus had failed,
but that didn't stop this 4th-year mechanical engineering
student. Read about the 13,000-mile trip Luke took in
his specially outfitted 1976 Mercedes, powered by 50
gallons of diesel fuel and vegetable oil!
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U.Va. Engineer Demonstrates a New Class of Coatings That Could Save Billions of Dollars Each Year
Rust never sleeps—which
is why it is so expensive. According to a study commissioned
by the Federal Highway Administration, corrosion damage
costs the U.S. economy $276 billion every year.
If Professor John Scully has his way, rust will soon be
sleeping—and sleeping soundly. Thanks to a productive
collaboration with two other University of Virginia scientists,
Scully has hit the trifecta of corrosion resistance—a
full-featured protective coating that acts as a barrier,
provides a sacrificial anode, and automatically releases
corrosion inhibitors as they are needed. This new class
of coatings has the potential to dramatically reduce the
nation's infrastructure costs, lessening the need for
routine maintenance, repair, and replacement.
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University of Virginia Engineers Tap Potential of Unused Terahertz Spectrum
Communications companies regularly spend billions of dollars for small portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet they wouldn't pay a dime for the large range of frequencies, between 100 gigahertz and 10 terahertz, in the terahertz range. This may soon change. Thanks to a recent grant from the Keck Foundation, Professor Bobby Weikle and others in the Engineering School are working on a project that could transform this neglected area of the spectrum into valuable real estate.
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Career Day Recruiters Fill Engineering School's Darden Court
The Engineering Career Development Center hosted the largest career services event at U.Va. this year. More than 400 representatives (many of whom are U.Va. alumni) from 160 companies, representing the leading organizations in their respective industries, attended the three-day event.
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2005 Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium Wows Academia and Industry Alike
Undergraduate students in the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have been writing theses in their final year for more than a century. But it is safe to say that when William Mynn Thornton conceived of the project just after becoming the School's first dean in 1904, he had no idea students would be doing cutting-edge research in medical chemistry, radio communications, and distributed computing so early in their careers.
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