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Engineering Rock Star

From country rock pioneer to renowned engineer, ex-Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen guitarist and Rensselaer professor John Tichy has had two successful careers.

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Human-Induced <br />Stress on the World’s <br />Water Supply

Human-Induced
Stress on the World’s
Water Supply

Human practices threaten the security of fresh water systems that supply nearly 80% of the world's population, according to a study by Rivers in Crisis. The researchers claim the study is the first to quantify the impact of human-induced stresses on a global basis.

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Adrian Bejan: Honorary Membership in ASME

Adrian Bejan: Honorary Membership in ASME

Adrian Bejan is recognized with Honorary Membership in ASME for an extraordinary record of creative work, including the unification of thermodynamics and heat transfer; the conceptual development of design as a science that unites all fields; legendary contributions to engineering education; and, since 1996, the discovery and continued development of the constructal law.

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Technology & Society Division

The common issue that concerns members of the Technology & Society (T&S) division is how our actions – as engineers, technologists, teachers and leaders – impact greater society today and in the future.

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Technology & Society

Technology and society have been inextricably linked for thousands of years. Linkages expand and yet tighten with every technology advance from moveable type to powered flight to electronics and computers. The countless impacts on one another range from globalization and war to ever-greater energy consumption, rising material standards of living and longer, healthier lives plus myriad advances in education and engineering (simulation, analysis, sensors, etc.).

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