Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

BBC News - The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours

BBC News - The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours

The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours

Advertisement

17 May 2011 Last updated at 13:17 ET Help

The past 12 months have seen a remarkable number of humanitarian crises with earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand and deadly tornadoes in the southern US being among the most recent.

Among new innovations which could help relief efforts is a fabric shelter that, when sprayed with water, turns to concrete within 24 hours.

Invented by two engineers while at university, Concrete Canvas allows aid teams to construct solid structures in emergency zones quickly and easily.

Will Crawford and Peter Brewin showed BBC News how the concrete tent is put together and spoke about what inspired them.

READ MORE: The gadgets for disaster zones

BBC News - The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library - Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL

K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library - Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL

Engineering Pathway

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
The Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in engineering, applied science and math, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology and is designed for use by K-12 and university educators and students. The K-12 engineering curriculum uses engineering as a vehicle for the integration of hands-on science and mathematics through real-world designs and applications that inspire the creativity of youth.
Users may search over K-12 engineering lessons and activities, as well as other K-12 resources, by many criteria - including content focus area, grade level and educational standards. K-12 community resources include professional development opportunities and research findings. Higher education resources may be discovered by multiple criteria including discipline, audience, resource type, title, author/creator, special topics, or by selected collection. Higher education community resources include support for ABET accreditation, research and scholarship, curricula development and extracurricular activities for students.
Additional features include outreach information and materials, diversity resources, professional society and career planning information, personalized workspace, the ability to contribute and comment on resources, and hosted search services.
The Engineering Pathway's goal is to provide resources that help teachers, parents, faculty, and practicing engineers to inspire more of today's students to follow an engineering path as their way to understand and improve the world.

 

K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library - Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL