Author: Tina Hilding
38 article(s) found by this author.
Terry Ishihara ’49—“You can’t be happy and bitter”
Spring 2015
Terry Ishihara went from a teen in a WWII internment camp to a mechanical engineering degree at Washington State College and a successful career.
Categories: Alumni, Engineering
Tags: Japanese-Americans, Internment camps, World War II, Mechanical engineering
Mission accomplished
Fall 2014
After the 2009 failure of launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, WSU emeritus professor George Mount kept working on it. The new OCO launched successfully this July.
Categories: Space sciences, Engineering, Environmental studies
Tags: Satellites, Greenhouse gases
Pavlo Rudenko ’09—As fast as he can go
Spring 2014
Pavlo Rudenko is producing a bio-based lubricant with nano-scale particles that can reduce friction on metal surfaces.
Categories: Alumni, Engineering
Tags: Inventors, Lubricants, Nanotechnology
A power shortage
Winter 2011
Don Kopczynski ’91 first noticed the power industry’s newest
problem around the year 2000. The vice president for Avista Corp.
counted 100 engineers on his team. Looking ahead, he realized that
half of them would be retiring simulta...
Categories: Engineering
Tags: Power engineers, Electrical engineering, Power transmission
Using technology to address the challenges of aging
Fall 2011
An increasing number of families know the stress of trying to deal
with an elderly parent or spouse who is losing his or her ability to
live independently. How can we maintain dignity for those who are
having trouble completing daily ta...
Categories: Engineering, Psychology
Tags: Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Age
Research gone wild: Engineering power in the Pacific Northwest, part II
Fall 2011
In 1946, the Washington State Legislature established Washington
State College’s Institute of Technology. In a 1986 oral history,
Eugene Greenfield, who directed the Institute’s Division of Industrial
Research starting in 1958, explai...
Categories: Engineering, WSU history
Tags: Power transmission, Dams, Hydraulic, Electrical engineering
Current events—engineering power in the Pacific Northwest
Summer 2011
When electricity first came to Washington in September of 1885,
just a few electric lights illuminated downtown Spokane. By the
following March, Seattle had them, too. From those early days,
Washington State College had a role in helpin...
Categories: WSU history, Engineering
Tags: Electricity, Electrical engineering, Dams, Power transmission
A gift toward fuel research
Spring 2009
Oil industry executive Gene Voiland ‘69 and his wife Linda have promised $17.5 million to Washington State University’s School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, contributing to the school’s focus on energy research.
An immediate $2....
Categories: Alumni, Engineering
Tags: Gifts, Biofuels
Students design schools for Sri Lanka
Fall 2006
A group of six students in civil and environmental engineering worked with Washington State University's new student group of Engineers Without Borders and Asiana Education Development (AED), a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that runs school...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Schools, Sri Lanka
Making decks safer
Fall 2006
Decks are right behind hurricanes and tornadoes in the number of injuries they cause involving wood building components.
Categories: Engineering
Tags: Materials engineering, Wood
Building a better treadle pump—one step at a time
Fall 2006
The first thing Jeff Evans, a recent graduate in entrepreneurship, did when he started his senior project was to locate Malawi on a map.He and engineering students Travis Meyer, Kyle Kraemer, and Dan Good have since learned a lot about this Africa...
Categories: Agriculture, Engineering
Tags: Irrigation, Malawi
Web Extra :: Better living...through solar
Spring 2006
For more than two years, a group of Washington State University
students in architecture, construction management, interior design,
and engineering designed and built a solar house, including all of
its systems, from the ground up. In September 20...
Categories: Architecture and design, Environmental studies
Tags: Solar power, Buildings
Simple Forms
Fall 2005
Paul Hirzel received the prestigious American Institute of
Architects' (AIA) Housing Committee Award for a custom
single-family home, designating Hirzel's project one of the top
designs in the country.Hirzel, associate professor in the School of A...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Awards
Web Extra :: Birth, Death & Architecture
Summer 2005
Architecture professor Paul Hirzel wanted to push his students
out of their mindsets. So he asked them to design a single building
for both the beginning and the end of life: a funeral home/
birthing center."The project was very daunting and invig...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Birth, Death
This man might save your life--or teach your class
Summer 2005
Clint Cole ('87 B.S. Comp. Sci., '00 M.S. Elec. Engr.) vividly
remembers the drama of trying to save lives as a paramedic in the
1980s.He and his fellow paramedics typically responded to emergency
calls by driving as fast as possible to their dest...
Categories: Alumni, Health sciences, Engineering
Tags: Defibrillator
All's well that ends well
Summer 2005
How do you describe the feeling of watching 18 years of work come to
nothing? Shock. Numbness. A sinking in the stomach. Atkinson wanted to
punch something. His colleagues left to get a beer. But the Cassini
team wasn't quite ready to concede failure. An hour after dispersing in
despair, they came together again, this time with a glimmer of hope.
Categories: Physics
Tags: Saturn, Astrophysics, Space exploration
Tough Microbes
Spring 2005
They might not eat nails, exactly, but these tough little critters might hold the key to some heavy-duty environmental cleanup.
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Lake Coeur d'Alene, Microbes
Those wasted five gallons
Spring 2005
As Americans, we freely water large, green lawns and take
showers daily, using on average 100 gallons of water a day. We pay
a fraction of a cent per gallon for water out of the tap, while a
gallon of gasoline costs $2. Yet life cannot exist witho...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Natural Resources, Water
A Once-In-A-Career Project
Spring 2005
Any engineering student can recount how wind-induced vibrations
and poor aerodynamics caused "Galloping Gertie," the first Tacoma
Narrows suspension bridge, to swing wildly and collapse into the
channel during a storm November 7, 1940.More than 60...
Categories: Engineering
Tags: Bridges
Seeing pollution from a higher vantage
Fall 2004
"This is going to be an earth-shattering instrument."
Categories: Earth sciences, Engineering
Tags: Pollution, Satellites
Field-burning study proves inconclusive
Fall 2004
The study found no significant health effect from field burning--nor did it explain why.
Categories: Agriculture, Health sciences
Tags: Palouse, Smoke
Sleep and Run—How do they do that?
Fall 2004
How can grizzlies hibernate for a season without any apparent loss of muscle?
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Sleep, Bears, Wildlife
Students to build a complete solar home
Summer 2004
A group of students from the School of Architecture and
Construction Management at Washington State University will compete
in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon. Over the next
two years, the students will design and construct a small...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Energy, Solar power, Construction
Extreme Diversity—in Soap Lake
Spring 2004
Soap Lake is surrounded by dark shores, sheer rock walls, a primeval
landscape. Its waters have long been thought by some to cure certain
maladies. It is also home to strange, hardy organisms that live nowhere
else.
Categories: Environmental studies
Tags: Water, Chemical engineering, Microbes
Tackling megacity crud
Spring 2004
A whole new take on the Mexico City blues.
Categories: Engineering, Environmental studies
Tags: Civil engineering, Pollution, Transportation
Building a better bee trap
Spring 2004
Bee-trap manufacturers like to use a chemical substance called
pheromones to attract bees into traps and away from people. Problem
is, they don't always work.Providing the right amount of pheromones is imperative. Too many
pheromones or too much o...
Categories: Biological sciences, Entomology
Tags: Bees
Architecture from the Weapons of War
Spring 2004
Homes constructed from artillery shells. Military tanks used as
foundations for bridges. Flowerpots that were once parts of
missiles. In Afghanistan, a generation of war has resulted in a
strange new architecture, built from the implements of dest...
Categories: Fine Arts, Architecture and design
Tags: Weapons, Photography, Afghanistan
Solving Boeing's Problems
Spring 2004
The Boeing Company has a problem.Lindsey Caton, a Boeing vision sensors and optics specialist, has
taken apart yet another $3,500 camera that he has been trying to
use to document the company's manufacturing processes. Out of it
oozes Boelube, the...
Categories: WSU students, Engineering
Tags: Boeing
Software system enables precise radiation treatment for tumors
Fall 2003
Seldom do software engineers get to see their work save lives.
But new software developed by Washington State University alumnus
Thanos Etmektzoglou is making a difference for cancer patients.For the past 13 years Etmektzoglou has worked at Varian ...
Categories: Alumni, Health sciences
Tags: Software
Building the Perfect Bone
Summer 2003
With a new baby as inspiration, and an interdisciplinary team to help,
husband and wife Amit Bandyopadhyay and Susmita Bose have set out to
solve the puzzle of how to imitate nature's growth of the human bone.
Categories: Biological sciences, Engineering
Tags: Bones, Materials engineering
Building the Perfect Bone
Summer 2003
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Categories: Materials engineering
Tags: Bones
“Problem” Is a Good Word
Summer 2003
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Categories: Architecture and design
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"Problem" is a good word
Summer 2003
There are no stars at Miller/Hull Partnership.
Categories: Architecture and design, Alumni
Tags: Buildings
Rebuilding a city, repairing psyches
Spring 2003
"You can't put the blame on one side. Everybody has made some
contributions to the misery."So thought Rafi Samizay, professor in the School of Architecture
and Construction Management at Washington State University, as he
stood in what is left of ...
Categories: WSU faculty, Architecture and design
Tags: Afghanistan
Solid footing
Spring 2003
Ah, for the safety and comfort of computer modeling in a cozy
office.Instead, Thanos Papanicolaou, assistant professor in the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington
State University, found himself in a small boat in the ch...
Categories: Engineering
Tags: Tacoma, Bridges, Civil engineering
Smoke & asthma
Spring 2003
For as long as Jami Hinshaw can remember, she has coughed,
sneezed, sniffled, and felt miserable every September. When she was
nine, the Spokane native and WSU alum was diagnosed with
asthma.Last fall, Hinshaw was fighting her usual symptoms, but ...
Categories: Public affairs, Agriculture, Health sciences
Tags: Air quality, Field burning, Asthma
Don't panic yet
Winter 2002
An asteroid may be heading for a collision with earth, reports a
group of researchers including Washington State University's Scott
Hudson. Fortunately, the actual probability of a collision is only
one-third of one percent, and we have 878 years ...
Categories: Space sciences
Tags: Asteroids
Better chow
Spring 2002
As anyone who has stir-fried vegetables knows, quickly cooking
foods at high temperatures makes for crisper, fresher-tasting foods
than using slow-cooking methods.So it is that over the past six years, associate professor of
biological systems eng...
Categories: Biological sciences, Engineering
Tags: Food, Cooking