By Caeli Cleary
August 26, 2015
The University is leading a new Engineering Research Center that is being further developed with an $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The center, called Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems, or P.O.E.T.S., is being established to increase the power in smaller electri...
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November 19, 2014
The practice of mapping started approximately 16,500 years ago in central France, where prehistoric people painted the stars in cave walls. These were humanity’s first mapmakers.
Since then, cartography and map mediums have evolved from cave walls to clay tablets and finally from paper to digital f...
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