Student News

The Other MEMs: The Master of Engineering Management Degree
February 11, 2011 | IEEE Spectrum

Engineers who want something more tech-oriented than an MBA are rediscovering an old degree.

Kamkwamba adapts to College life
January 13, 2011 | The Dartmouth

Kamkwamba first began to pursue his interest in engineering when, spurred by the desire to improve the lives of his family members and other village residents, he scavenged through a local junkyard in search of parts to build an electricity-producing apparatus.

Dartmouth Engineering Students Selected for NASA's Zero-Gravity Research Program
January 13, 2011

A team of Dartmouth engineering students—Sean Currey '11, Broghan Cully '11, and BE program candidates Maxwell Fagin and Michael Kellar—was selected by NASA's 2011 Microgravity University which offers a Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.

Thayer students' project takes flight
January 7, 2011 | The Dartmouth

Using materials such as an air conditioner, cooling pipes and a block of graphite, a team of students from the Thayer School of Engineering is working to design a dehumidifying system for future manned spacecrafts.

Indy 500 to Toy with Next-Generation Auto Technology
January 3, 2011 | Matter Network

Indy 500 Emerging / Clean Tech Day is slated for May 7, and it will host Dartmouth's Formula Hybrid competition featuring student-designed, high efficiency, plug-in high performance vehicles.

Group creates safer surgical sponge
November 5, 2010 | The Dartmouth

Dartmouth Student Team Wins 2nd Prize in 2010 Collegiate Inventors Competition
October 29, 2010

The Collegiate Inventors Competition announced this week that Dartmouth students Devon Anderson, Jonathan Guerrette, and Nathan Niparko were the second-place, $5,000 prize winners in the undergraduate category for their creation of an absorbent, bioresorbable surgical sponge.

Rise of the business-savvy engineer
July 25, 2010 | Financial Times

Ice Stations, Everyone!
June 23, 2010 | Climate Central

B.E. Candidate Emily Koepsell D'09 Receives Fulbright Award to Denmark
June 4, 2010

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB) has selected Thayer School B.E. candidate Emily Koepsell D'09 to receive a Fulbright award to Denmark.