VANCOUVER — Washington State University Vancouver will co-host “FairPlay! Design and Discovery Camps for Girls,” an experience for girls entering grades 7-12 that allows them discover new interests and work with like-minded girls and women engineers.Now in its second year, the program explores engineering careers and concepts through the design process and hands-on projects. Participants […]
Washington State University Vancouver faculty member Hakan Gurocak has been named director of the School of Engineering and Computer Science, an academic unit of the College of Engineering and Architecture at the university’s Pullman campus, effective Aug. 16. “Hakan is perfect for this position. He has taken the lead in proposing the new school of […]
A Washington State University scientist is trying to turn cull potatoes into a profitable byproduct for Washington potato growers.The state’s potato growers harvest about 5 million tons of potatoes every year. Nearly 15 percent of the potatoes, usually known as culls, end up as some form of feed or residual use by-product, according to Melvin […]
A Washington State University scientist is trying to turn cull potatoes into a profitable byproduct for Washington potato growers. The state’s potato growers harvest about 5 million tons of potatoes every year. Nearly 15 percent of the potatoes, usually known as culls, end up as some form of feed or residual use by-product, according to […]
As part of an initiative to create a well-rounded and more versatile engineer, the College of Engineering and Architecture is working to introduce engineering students to concepts in entrepreneurship. “Students have to know that when they go into private industry, the reason they’re being hired is because their employer thinks they will be able to […]
It used to be that those who warned about massive power blackouts were accused of being so many Chicken Littles. Not anymore. Last August’s massive failure on the East Coast raised awareness about how very vulnerable the electric power grid is to massive accidental failures and to cyber-attacks. A group of researchers in the School […]
Anjan Bose, dean of the College of Engineer
Floyd Rogers and Judy Huie-Rogers, of Renton, recently became the first individual donors in Washington State University’s history to contribute two endowed chair positions to the university. The Rogers’ most recent gift of $1.5 million to the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science establishes a second endowed senior faculty position in computer science, an […]
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