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How Sweet It Is: Basketball Engineering

Engineering and basketball go together as we begin the Sweet 16 games in the NCAA tournament, but just how has engineering affected the game? History In 1891, at Springfield College, Massachusetts, Dr. James Naismith, a thirty-year old physical education instructor, was encouraged to create an indoor, winter “athletic distraction.” Using two vegetable baskets, a soccer ball, nineContinue reading “How Sweet It Is: Basketball Engineering”

Come Celebrate Pi Day 3.14,1:59!

On March 14 at 1:59 pm we gather together to celebrate the most famous and mysterious of numbers.  That Pi is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter seems simple enough but Pi turns out to be an “irrational number.”  Computer scientists have calculated billions of digits of pi, starting withContinue reading “Come Celebrate Pi Day 3.14,1:59!”

Pi Day : Pie, Trivia & Fun … Oh, My!

Join the Lichtenberger Engineering Library and the People in Engineering LLC for an exciting afternoon of free pie and Pi(e) trivia. The fun begins at 1:59 pm on 3.14 in the Seamans Center Student Commons. Show off your knowledge of Pi(e). Form a team of four and pre-register for a trivia game at http://goo.gl/Ncnvmy. PiContinue reading “Pi Day : Pie, Trivia & Fun … Oh, My!”

Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Behind the Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell is known as an inventor, scientist, and engineering.  He is well-known for his invention of the telephone and was involved in many other inventions. His invention of the telephone came from his desire to help the deaf hear and had done research into speech articulation following his father’s work.  The patent was issuedContinue reading “Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Behind the Telephone”