Will AI Diversify Human Thinking or Replace It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bjRbt1TjE&feature=youtu.be PostedOctober 29, 2018 A new global study from Tata Communications and UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg separates fact from fiction and shows how AI could lead to a more productive and inclusive future for humans.
What If We Covered Engineers Like Celebs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-OBJNkCanY&feature=youtu.be PostedFebruary 25, 2016 For the recent #eweek2016, USC Viterbi, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and Funny or Die reimagined the E! network - famous for its 24/7 coverage of the Kardashians, True Hollywood Stories, and celebrity fashion disasters. What if E! became all about 24/7, non-stop, breathless coverage of the engineers and the technologies that change our world?
Watch the NAE Forum on Autonomy on Land and Sea and in the Air and Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHcxCcfrQSk&feature=youtu.be PostedNovember 21, 2017 Claire Tomlin of UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Jim Bellingham of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Raj Rajkumar of Carnegie Mellon University, and MiMi Aung of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory addressed developments in autonomous technologies used in unmanned aircraft and space exploration systems, autonomous ships, and self-driving cars.
Watch Grand Challenges for Engineering Speaker Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGuzFHPdzyU PostedNovember 13, 2018 NAE member Edward Kavazanjian, Jr. at Arizona State University discusses the Grand Challenge to restore and improve urban infrastructure within the theme of sustainability as part of NAE's engaging speaker series in partnership with the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network.
Watch 2014 US FOE Attendee Andrea Alu’s Talk on the Quest to Invisibility at TEDxAustin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jseHPnqXlPY PostedJuly 30, 2014 Andrea Alu from UT Austin discusses metamaterials and cloaking.
Warehouse-scale Computers: The Machinery that Runs the Cloud https://youtu.be/fDq5QGwAhNg PostedSeptember 23, 2010 Luiz Andre Barroso, Google2010 USFOE
Video Series Combines Two Seemingly Disparate Interests: Materials Engineering and Bird Watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDW75ZRH-Y&index=1&list=PLo1wGxoqIti2eou-WydolD... PostedMarch 9, 2016 birding, innovative instruction, nature, mythbusters, Hall’s Pond Sanctuary, Brookline, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Minna Hall, birder MIT's Lorna Gibson (USFOE 1996) weaves together intimate observations of bird behavior and physiology with engineering “explainers” to reach people who might not be interested in picking up an engineering book.
Tumbling Magnetic Microbots on Fantastic Voyage https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=obwvH78hGLY PostedMarch 8, 2018 drug delivery, Multiscale Robotics and Automation Lab, micromachine, Purdue University's David Cappelleri (GAFOE 2015) has engineered microbots measuring around 400 by 800µm which can act as medical microbots to deliver drugs to specific points inside the body.
Tough and Stretchable Ionogels https://youtu.be/SoAxmv7I9KA PostedJuly 25, 2022 FOE alum Michael Dickey at NC State University reports ionogels with best in class mechanical properties in a paper in Nature Materials titled "Tough and stretchable ionogels via in situ phase separation."
The Power of Light: Lasers at the National Ignition Facility https://youtu.be/81c9tMTJzX8 PostedApril 23, 2010 John Heebner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Kepler Mission: A Search for Terrestrial Planets https://youtu.be/pndJ7W-dIP8 PostedSeptember 10, 2009 Riley Duren, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab2009 US FOE
The Future is Out There https://youtu.be/rl5Ef9eebHA PostedFebruary 9, 2021 In this interview of Martin Cooper, who conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973, NAE illustrates the importance of encouraging current and future generations of engineers and entrepreneurs to think big and bold.
The Car and the Cloud: Remote Automotive Controller Unit Diagnostics, Testing, and Reprogramming https://youtu.be/iCIKWlrXmGo PostedSeptember 13, 2012 Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania 2012 USFOE
The 2017 Solar Eclipse, Set to Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXWPciTcAI&t=32s PostedSeptember 5, 2017 Are you having eclipse withdrawal? Enjoy this video, with music composed by FOE alum David Fogel at Natural Selection.
Testbed for Connected and Automated Vehicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=RdO9NAZqUzc PostedApril 30, 2018 FOE alum Andreas Malikopoulos at the University of Delaware has built a driver simulation testbed for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) to study their energy usage and interaction with human-driven vehicles.
TEDx Talk - Drive Innovation Through Cognitive Diversity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ZuUQGtIpc PostedDecember 4, 2017 Creativ, logic, reasoning, productivity Boeing's Li Chun Chang (GAFOE 2017) shares how creating a diverse thinking culture can improve gap intelligence and integrate creative, constructive and strategic thinking for innovation.
Take One Robot, Add Nunchucks http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/watch-robot-use-nunchucks-after-learning-... PostedOctober 12, 2017 Watch a robot use nunchucks after learning like a human student would. Researchers have now shown a robot how to flip nunchucks to demonstrate an intuitive approach for teaching complex manual tasks.
Spiderwebs That Sing https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=xvT-HcWMAaQ PostedJanuary 14, 2019 acoustical, spider silk, materials science, sine wave, FOE alum Markus Buehler at MIT engineered "Spider’s Canvas," an exploration that sonifies the threads of a spider web by applying different frequencies of sound to different lengths of spider webs. Spider webs feature hierarchical structures similar to the complex harmonies and rhythms music.
Robot Navigation https://youtu.be/2Z2gtaPFODc PostedNovember 5, 2013 Christopher Geyer, BAE Systems 2013 NAE Annual Meeting Gilbreth Lecture
Recycling Water Bottles Into a Nanomaterial for Energy Storage https://youtu.be/ljnSJBuAn4k PostedAugust 28, 2020 Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan at the University of California, Riverside (USFOE 2008) are engineering a way to recycle plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage, which could reduce plastic pollution and hasten the transition to 100% clean energy.