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From forecasting shuttle re-entry to medical procedure outcomes, engineers are working fast to create computer models we can trust
Days before the space shuttle Columbia began its ill-fated return to Earth on Feb. 1, 2003, NASA engineers tried to evaluate the severity of damage sustained two weeks before, when a piece of foam had struck the shuttle during takeoff and damaged its thermal protection system. Engineering and computational researchers at The University of Texas… » Continue Reading
Physicist and engineer’s device could provide cheap and early detection of earthquakes, lung cancer and infant lactose intolerance
Manfred Fink didn’t set out to build a device that could cheaply test for earthquakes, lung cancer and lactose intolerance. Fink, a professor of physics in the College of Natural Sciences, set out to do the kind of thing that an experimental physicist might do — try to pin down the rest mass of the… » Continue Reading