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| 500-pound gorilla on the dais Population growth puts dent in natural resources (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/12656.html) Oct. 7, 2008 --
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| Baseball diamond as playground of math and physics Engineer: Head-first slide is quicker (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/12487.html) Sept. 25, 2008 -- With baseball playoffs heating up and the World Series right around the corner, it's guaranteed that fans will see daring slides, both feet-first and head-first, and even slides on bang-bang plays at first. Who gets there faster, the head-first slider or the feet-first? The head-first player, says David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and big-time baseball fan. He says it's a matter of the player's center of gravity. |
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| Be prepared Seminar to address ways to lessen earthquake damage (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/12107.html) Aug. 11, 2008 --
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| David Peters McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/516.html)
David Peters is widely recognized as an expert in design and analysis of rotary-wing aircraft. His theory of dynamic inflow is the world standard for wake modeling in rotorcraft dynamics and simulation. His continuing research on rotorcraft modeling and analysis has led to the publication of more than ... Expertise: rotary-wing aircraft, helicopters, rotocraft dynamics, aeronautics, astronautics Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / tony_fitzpatrick@wustl.edu |
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| Kenneth F. Kelton Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/487.html) Kenneth Kelton is an expert in a phenomenon called nucleation, which is the most common way that physical systems change from one phase to another and is a governing process in nearly all phase transformations. Kelton has a long history of collaboration with Patrick Gibbons, Ph.D., professor of physics ... Expertise: quasicrystals, metallurgy, nucleation processes, metallic liquids, materials science, materials physics, non-crystaline solids, … Direct contact: (314) 935-6228 / kfk@wuphys.wustl.edu |
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| Rudolf Husar Professor of Mechanical Engineering (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/348.html) Husar is the director of Washington University's Center for Air Pollution Impact, Trends and Analysis (CAPITA), the world's largest private library of air pollution literature and computerized statistics. CAPITA spans more than 100 years of American pollution and energy consumption. Using CAPITA data, ... Expertise: air pollution, clean air, aerosols, fluid mechanics, Monte Carlo Modeling, ozone Direct contact: (314) 935-6054 / rhusar@me.wustl.edu |
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| Frank Yin Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/349.html)
Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ... Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics Direct contact: (314) 935-6164 / yin@biomed.wustl.edu |
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| Batter Up: Shattering Sticks Create Peril in MLB Ballparks
Scientific American July 15, 2008 -- This season, an alarming number of baseball bats have been exploding on contact with pitches -- shooting sharp timber projectiles onto the field and into the stands, where they have struck coaches, fans, players and umpires -- prompting players and management to call for testing that will get to the root of the problem. One theory blames the increased use of maple wood instead of more traditional ash and the players' preference for bats with thinner handles. WUSTL engineering professor Dave Peters comments. |
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| Baseball is built for lefties
Associated Press and 55 others July 10, 2008 -- Peters is a WUSTL engineering professor who happens to be a baseball nut. He looked at baseball from an engineer's perspective and determined that southpaws have a decided advantage. "Ninety percent of the human population is right-handed, but in baseball 25 percent of the players, both pitchers and hitters, are left-handed," Peters said. |
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| devised a technique on humans that for the first time shows just what the brain does when the skull accelerates
Space Daily Dec. 16, 2005 -- Mechanical engineers at WUSTL along with collaborators, have devised a technique using MRI technology that shows how the human brain reacts when the skull accelerates. The research shows that as the skull accelerates, the numerous vessels, membranes and nerves at the base of the brain, try to pull away, from the spine leading to a significant deformation in the front of the brain. Philip Bayly, Ph.D., Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor in Engineering, discussed the group's findings Nov. 10, 2005, at the annual meeting of the National Neurotrauma Society in Washington, DC. |
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| CubeSats could carry everything from experiments to transmitters into space relatively cheaply
CNN.com International and 3 others Sept. 10, 2004 -- Experts say the big news in spacecraft building involves ultra-small CubeSats. CubeSats will make be easier and more cost effective to deploy into orbit. Michael Swartwout, professor of mechanical engineering, comments on this new industry and the role-played by university research. |
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| Award-winning video captures water, oil, mixing
Innovations-Report (Germany) and 6 others March 12, 2004 --
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