ME Professor Emeritus Ronald Yeung has been awarded the 2020 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Distinguished Achievement Award for Individuals. This award recognizes Professor Yeung’s 45-year career in educating a generation of naval architects and ocean engineers, as well as, his fundamental research in ship and offshore hydrodynamics. Over this period, he has supervised 28 doctoral …
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Isn’t Dead Yet
Pieces of the gas giant’s greatest storm had seemed to be slipping away, but scientists say the underlying vortex is unchanged.
Making Waves: Turning Ocean Power Into Electricity
Ocean waves have vast energy potential. The Electric Power Research Institute estimates the total wave energy resource along the United States coastline at 2,640 terawatt-hours per year (TWh/yr). One TWh/yr can supply more than 93,000 typical U.S. homes with power annually.
ME Professor Reza Alam’s “Rolling Rings” Featured by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
ME Professor Reza Alam’s precent manuscript collaboration, “Terminal retrograde turn of rolling rings,” was featured in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science Shot. The manuscript explains that “when a coin or disk spins, its edge circles in the same direction as its center, so it executes a wobbly spiral. A ring starts …
ME Professor Reza Alam and Team Among Finalists for Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development
Congratulations to ME Professor Reza Alam, along with team members Devin Bisconer, Victor Pucci and Marcus Lehmann, on becoming one of the three final teams in the running to win the Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development! The Odebrecht Award “invites university students nationwide to join us in the search for innovative technologies and methods to …