The 90th weekly lab meeting: EESL research assitants, Jahazaib Adil and Andrew Betz, had presentations respectively.
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Monthly Archives: October 2017
EESLab the kick-off party for a new academic year
Cornell Chronicle: Team develops machine with aim of ending textile waste
The average American goes through roughly 70 pounds of clothing each year, creating approximately 21 billion pounds of clothing sent to landfills – five percent of all landfill waste, according to the Council for Textile Recycling.
A multidisciplinary Cornell design and research team, assembled to tackle the environmental problem of post-consumer textile waste, has developed a unique fabric-shredding machine in hopes of a zero-waste solution for the textile industry…….
From left, Emelie Camera ’17; Anil Netravali, the Jean and Douglas McLean Professor in Fiber Science and Apparel Design; Tasha Lewis, assistant professor of fiber science and apparel design; and graduate student Schuyler Duffy with the Fiberizer v.2.
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/04/team-develops-machine-aim-ending-textile-waste
We are on CUNY Newswire
City Tech Students Compete In Brooklyn Borough President’s Smart Gun Design Competition
At a ceremony held at the Brooklyn Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn on September 18, the contributions of two teams of City Tech engineering students were recognized for their smart gun designs, which were submitted to Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams’ Smart Gun Design Competition. City Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology & Industrial Design undergraduate students Liza Chiu, Josue Bautista, Antonia Meza, and Runtao You participated in the competition with Professor Masato Nakamura as faculty advisor. In addition to City Tech’s teams, a team from Pratt also made the final round of the competition, while one of the two finalist teams of graduate students from NYU’s Tanden School of Engineering won the $1 million prize……
