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Power and Responsibility—Ethics In Engineering and Computer Science
“With great power comes great responsibility.” This is the expression that motivates Spider Man to fight the battle of good and evil in comic books and on the silver screen. Ethics expert Professor Dana Radcliffe says it is also a fitting principle…
Air Orange Team Competing to Reinvent How We Transmit Wireless Data
Countless devices are connected through wireless media and all of those phones, sensors and smart home networks are putting increasing pressure on the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Right now, the spectrum is divided into exclusively licensed bands, thus creating enormous…
Bridges to Food Quality
As a young man, Minhao Chen G’12 began to notice that something wasn’t right. One by one, family friends in Shanghai were being diagnosed with cancer. By the time he had completed his undergraduate degree in China, five people he knew had…
Replacing Clean Power Plan Proves Complicated, according to College of Engineering Researcher
A new study between Syracuse University and Harvard has discovered that replacing the Clean Power Plan would actually be worse than doing nothing. Professor Charles Driscoll talks to Phys. Org explaining why this is the case. “The bottom line is…
Study: Clean Power Plan Replacement Worse than Nothing, Costs More than 3,500 Lives and $33B Yearly
A new map released today by scientists at Syracuse and Harvard universities shows that, compared to doing nothing, replacing the Clean Power Plan with a narrower option would make air quality worse and endanger more lives, on top of the…
Humanitarian Computing
There are many places in the world that are too remote, too poor or too embroiled in conflict to provide basic human services—including healthcare. Instead of doctor’s offices or hospitals, medical services are often provided by traveling volunteers or even…
Invention Designed by SU Engineering Students Selected as a Finalist for the James Dyson Award
Your favorite clothes may be polluting the world’s water supply. Synthetic clothing including polyester, acrylic and nylon fabrics release millions of microfibers every time they are washed. Even though they are too small to be seen by the naked eye,…
After Algae Bloom, is the Water Safe to Drink?
When a blue-green algae bloom appeared in the typically clear and beautiful Skaneateles Lake last week, many wondered what caused the phenomenon, and if their tap water was still safe to drink. For Spectrum News Central New York, Syracuse Professor…
Could a New Water Filtration System be on the Horizon for Syracuse?
As an algae bloom clouded the typically clear Skaneateles Lake last week, much concern was drawn over the Syracuse tap water, which is unfiltered water from the lake. If the blooms were to persist, the city would be faced with…
ECS, Architecture Alumni Share Experiences, Advice During CBT
Alumni shared experiences and advice during a discussion on “Diversity in ECS & Architecture: Challenges and Successes” for Coming Back Together 2017. College of Engineering and Computer Science alumni Clyde Forbes ’76, Michelle Tomlinson ’97 G’98 and Troy Tomlinson ’97 joined School of…