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Two KU Aerospace/Electrical Engineering teams have taken first and third places at the 2006 NASA CanSat competition. More information on the CanSat competition can be found at the NASA CanSat website.
The NSF established CReSIS on June 1, 2005, with a $19 million grant. It is one of only two Science and Technology Centers established in 2005. The multidisciplinary, multi-institutional center is developing new sensors, methods of collecting data, communication tools and modeling to better understand the mass balance of the world's polar ice sheets and their contribution to global sea-level change.
Radars and other sensors developed by CReSIS engineers and scientists will be used to obtain a detailed image of the bed of the ice sheet and map deep and shallow internal layers to determine flow history and snow accumulation, respectively. KU researchers successfully demonstrated they can achieve this at the summit of Greenland, whose ice sheet is more than 3 kilometers thick, on surface-based platforms. The technology has to be further developed and miniaturized to fit on unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, that can cover large-scale areas. Click here for the Full Article.
Congress appropriated $14.5 million on July 29 to the University of Kansas to support and expand ongoing transportation-related research in such key areas as fuel cells, road and vehicle materials, aircraft and air quality.
The funding, acquired through the efforts of Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran and Sen. Pat Roberts, will assist KU's Transportation Research Institute in the School of Engineering.
The TRI, formed in 2004, builds upon the established strengths of KU research in transportation by conducting cross-disciplinary study of emerging transportation issues with broad societal significance. Research already under way includes projects in fuel cell and propulsion systems, environment and air-quality, aircraft and materials, as well as highway, bridge and concrete research. Click here for the Full Article.
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