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Electronics Goes Green 2016
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/9/6 9:00)
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(6.9.2016 - 9.9.2016) From September 6-9, 2016 Fraunhofer IZM is hosting the international conference Electronics Goes Green 2016 in Berlin, for the fifth time after the years 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. The conference is the most important event on microelectronics and the environment worldwide and will provide experts from science, industry and politics with a forum to discuss state-of-the-art technologies and current political trends with regard to microelectronics and its impact on the environment.
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Dr. Peter Cripton teaches kids about helmets and brain healthIMG_2204IMG_2207
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/8/31 9:50)
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Dr. Peter Cripton and Biomedical Engineering student (and MECH alumnus) Cameron Stuart shared important information on helmets and brain health with kids in the inaugural Brain Booster Summer Camp earlier this month. The Brain Booster camp is one of many programs offered by the West Coast Centre for Learning, a multi-disciplinary education facility that brings together education professionals (like Dr. Cripton) and brain training coaches from the scientific and academic community to provide “customiz[ed,] successful learning approaches for children, youth, adults and older adults with learning difficulties and memory challenges affecting personal choice and equal access to quality educational opportunities.” *
Dr. Cripton and Cameron are pictured below with the kids at the camp, who are all sporting some very safe and stylish helmets!
For more information on the camp and the Centre, visit westcoastcentreforlearning.com
Information on Dr. Cripton’s lab and hi ...
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UBC MECH researchers plumb the secrets of tissue paperGreen Phani Tissue Paper (Clare Kiernan)
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/8/31 9:28)
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UBC mechanical engineering researchers Srikanth Phani, Kui Pan and Sheldon Green.
Canada?s tissue manufacturers are now much closer to producing the perfect paper, thanks to new UBC research.
A team working with UBC mechanical engineering professors Sheldon Green and Srikanth Phani have created what is likely the first complete mathematical model of creping, the crinkling process that helps make tissue paper soft and resilient.
?The new model provides a significantly better understanding of the dynamics of the creping process, allowing manufacturers to tailor the process to a greater degree than before,? said Green. ?It?s the most accurate model of creping to date.?
During tissue manufacture, pulp is dried on a chemical-coated rotating drum until it?s 95 per cent dry. It?s then pushed off at very high speeds by a sharp creping blade, creating hundreds of microscopic folds that give tissue its softness, flexibility, tearing resistance and strength.
?With our model ...
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TDPS?s 2016/17 Season of Playhouse&Studio Productions
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/8/25 5:55)
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TDPS 2016/17 Season
Playhouse and Studio Productions
TDPS?s 2016/17 season, our 75th, explores ways that individuals fight against the odds, against seemingly insurmountable forces and powers greater than themselves, and manage to survive. In our Playhouse and Studio Productions this year, we delve into stories of conflict, and also of connection?with others, with causes, with the physical world.
Our fall productions investigate two different facets of war: Heart of Spain follows volunteers heading off to the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to fight against fascism, while Reentry: The Process of Resilience , a physical theater work devised by choreographer Joe Goode, features stories of student veterans resuming their lives and relationships upon returning to civilian life. This spring, the battle in Polaroid Stories is on city streets, as homeless youth who are fighting to survive turn to myth, poetry and profanity to find meaning in their lives. Our other two spring shows, ...
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Sailbot arrives in NFLD, prepares for trans-Atlantic crossing2016 7 16 UBC Sailbot Sponsorship Appre
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/8/22 15:47)
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Ada during her last evening in Vancouver
After three years of hard work, the UBC Sailbot team is almost ready to send their boat across the Atlantic, in what will be the first ever trans-Atlantic journey by an autonomous sailboat. Named Ada, after Ada Lovelace, the five-metre vessel was completely designed and built by UBC students in Vancouver, where she underwent extensive testing before being shipped to Newfoundland. She is currently parked at the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, where the team is finishing the last bits of work of her before she sets out on her own for Ireland.
“[The boat] makes all of its decisions on its own,” student Cody Smith told CBC News in Newfoundland, “There’s no control, there’s no [remote control], we don’t follow behind it. We just say, ‘You’re here and you need to go here,’ and she’ll do the rest. She’ll take care of all the sailing.”
Although the journey has been attemp ...
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Lauernde Gefahr am Meeresgrund
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/8/4 20:34)
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Mehr als 1,6 Millionen Tonnen Munition lagern vor unseren Küsten, ein Relikt aus den Weltkriegen. Das Netzwerk Munitect sucht nach Lösungen zur Detektion dieser Gefahrenstoffe in Nord- und Ostsee. Die Koordination übernimmt das Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD.
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Neue Institutsleitung berufen: Dr. Peter Knott und Prof. Dirk Heberling leiten gemeinsam das Fraunho
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/8/1 22:55)
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Am 1. August 2016 traten Dr.-Ing. Peter Knott und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Heberling als Doppelspitze die Institutsleitung des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik FHR an. Sie übernehmen das Amt von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Ender, der das Institut seit 2003 erfolgreich führte und nun in den Ruhestand verabschiedet wurde.
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Mensch, wie geht es dir?
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/8/1 22:24)
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Maschinenübernehmen immer mehr Aufgaben. Idealerweise sollten sie auch in der Lage sein, den Menschen bei Fehlverhalten zu unterstützen. Voraussetzung dafür ist, dass die Maschine versteht, wie es dem Menschen geht, der sie bedient. Fraunhofer-Forscher haben ein Diagnose-Verfahren entwickelt, das Nutzerzustände in Echtzeit erkennt und den Maschinen mitteilt.
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Keine trockenen Schleimhäute beim Fliegen
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/8/1 20:01)
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In Flugzeugen ist die Luft mit etwa 20 Prozent relativer Luftfeuchtigkeit sehr trocken, da so die Kondensatbildung in der Kabine vermieden wird. Dies führt jedoch bei den Fluggästen und der Crew zu trockenen Schleimhäuten. Ein Wirbelringgenerator soll künftig Kringel aus feuchter Luft gezielt zu den Passagieren pusten und die Feuchtigkeit der Atemluft anreichern ? ohne dabei die gesamte Luftfeuchte in die Höhe zu treiben.
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Leistungsverstärker aus Galliumnitrid für 5G
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/8/1 17:46)
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Daten per Funk zuübertragen ist zuverlässig und günstig. Das Datenvolumen pro Nutzer aber wächst exponentiell. Nicht nur durch die stetig wachsende Anzahl von Smart Phones, sondern insbesondere durch Trends wie Car-to-Car (C2C) oder Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Kommunikation ? Autos und Maschinen, die Informationen in höchster Geschwindigkeit miteinander austauschen müssen. Der neue 5G-Mobilfunkstandard soll für die schnelle, energieeffiziente Übertragung von Daten ab 2020 sorgen. Dafür baut Fraunhofer neue Hochfrequenz-Leistungsverstärker aus dem Halbleiter Galliumnitrid.
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