Houston Matters
Your Smartphone Owes A Debt To Some ‘Perfectionists’ From The 1800s
Posted on · In his new book, The Perfectionists, Simon Winchester explores the proliferation of precision engineering in our modern world.
Tag: engineering
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1485: Ship of Gold
Posted on · Episode: 1485 Ship of gold in the Deep Blue Sea: an impossible treasure recovery. Today, we hunt treasure.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2690: What The Pharaohs Didn’t Have
Posted on · Episode: 2690 What the pharaohs didn’t have: appreciating modern technology. Today, to be a pharaoh.
News
New Graduate Program Shows The Intersection Of Engineering And Medicine
Posted on · The program hopes to train doctors to better use technology in solving medical problems
Houston Matters
How A Dropped Touchdown Pass Took Astronaut Leland Melvin To Space
Posted on · The former astronaut talks about how that dropped pass opened a door that led to college, the NFL, and then NASA. He has a new memoir called Chasing Space.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1367: Struggling With Abstraction
Posted on · Episode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public. Today, we think about thinking abstractly.
Imaginarium
Video: How To Think Like An Engineer, Chapter 2
Posted on · As the semester wraps up, a group of engineering students are getting ready to present their first prototypes.
Imaginarium
Video: How To Think Like An Engineer, Chapter 1
Posted on · Freshmen engineering students begin constructing their first prototypes -- designs for clients like NASA and the Houston Zoo. No big deal.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1297: Verea’s Calculating Machine
Posted on · Episode: 1297 Ramon Verea’s calculating machine: inventing to make a point. Today, invention serves an unexpected purpose.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1217: Giant Earth-Movers
Posted on · Episode: 1217 Large earth movers: a paradox of large and small Today, we find some very big machines.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1213: Theory and Experiment
Posted on · Episode: 1213 Experiment, theory, and the role of the computer Today, the old question about theory and experiment comes back to haunt us.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1208: The Panama Railroad
Posted on · Episode: 1208 The first transcontinental railroad — and no golden spike! Today, we build the first transcontinental railroad.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1198: The Gates of Hell
Posted on · Episode: 1198 In which Virgil visits a theme park and writes the Aeneid Today, we pass through the Gates of Hell.
Health & Science
Texas A&M Plans School That Will Combine Medicine And Engineering
Posted on · It will be located at Houston Methodist and they project a first class of 50 students.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1174: An Intellectual Legacy
Posted on · Episode: 1174 Nature or nurture, explaining intellectual dynasties Today, more on the matter of heredity or environment.