Bill and Evan, the hosts of the 104.3 KHTR morning radio show interviewed me yesterday morning about hydrogen cars and our fueling station project. The full audio file is here:
HYPER lab member Ian Richardson is currently featured on the WSU main homepage. Check out the great article, video clips, and photos here: https://wsu.edu/125/exploration/
Thanks for the great stories and memories Ian!
The best coach I had for reference letters was P.K. Northcutt II, the head of IT at the University of Idaho College of Engineering. I asked P.K. for a reference letter once and almost had an early-life crisis (it was needed). P.K. is not a professor, engineer, or someone in any position of rank or power. Despite that he was able to write — while teaching me how to write — phenomenal reference letters. At the very least, reviewers had to be impressed by my awareness to select exceptionally good letter writers.
So you want me to write you a reference letter? Start here:
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I recently posted about a new concept for the NSF Restructuring Engineering Departments (RED) program that extended CSU’s approach and mapped the core threads to spiral memes (SD). One of the results of this was the ability to work with the WSU Grand Challenge research themes. In this post I’ll specify what this mapping could look like in a hypothetical WSU Mechanical Engineering Curriculum. Note that this is not intended to serve as an actual ME curriculum and is simply intended to stimulate conversation.
Ideally the transformation works with our existing curriculum to the greatest extent possible. The current ME course listing is here. … » More …
This just in…
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal’s resolution passed on September 29th 2015 designating today, 10/08, as National Hydrogen Fuel Cell Day! Hydrogen’s atomic weight is 1.00794 atomic mass units. When rounded we arrive at 1.008. More information on today’s celebration is here: http://www.hydrogenfuelcellday.org/
Some thoughts from the Department of Energy to consider today include:
More than 215 FCEVs traveled 6 million miles in more than 500,000 trips, and 31 FCEV fueling stations completed more than 52,000 refuelings.
Over the past few months, Hyundai and Toyota both introduced their FCEVs, on track with the plans for early commercialization by 2015. Several … » More …