Student News

The nation’s only Formula Hybrid Competition preps for its 7th year
March 25, 2013

Dartmouth's 7th annual Formula Hybrid Competition will take place April 29 – May 2 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This year, twenty teams are registered for the nation's only Formula competition focusing on hybrid-car technology.

Battery-Powered Yeti Guides Antarctic Explorers Past Concealed Crevasses
March 11, 2013 | Gizmodo

Tractor crews are being led by the Yeti, a four-wheel drive rover equipped with ground penetrating radar designed by students at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering coordinating with engineers from CRREL.

Robot Yeti Tells You Where Not to Go in Antarctica
March 7, 2013 | IEEE Spectrum

Researchers from Dartmouth, including professor of engineering Laura Ray and her students, came up with Yeti, a GPS-guided robot that can drag a ground-penetrating radar around to detect impending doom.

PhD Innovation Program Student Designs Device to Prevent Hospital Infections
March 6, 2013

PhD Innovation Program candidate Steve Reinitz ‘09 Th'09 has created an Inline Intravenous Fluid Sterilizer designed to prevent certain types of hospital acquired infections.

New issue of Dartmouth Engineer magazine
March 5, 2013

FEATURES: intersections between the arts and engineering; space weather research and avoiding damage from solar storms; re-engineering Thayer School's Machine Shop

Robot Called ‘Yeti’ Finds Cracks in Antarctic Ice
March 5, 2013 | LiveScience

Meet Yeti, a faithful rover of the robotic kind that sniffs out dangerous crevasses for convoys crossing the glaciers of Antarctica and Greenland—developed by a team of students led by Dartmouth engineering professor Laura Ray.

Cerenkov technique eyes linac QA
February 25, 2013 | Medical Physics Web

Summary of study published in Physics in Medicine and Biology led by engineering PhD candidate Adam Glaser showing "a fast and flexible way to profile the imparted dose from an X-ray photon linac beam in two dimensions."

Panelists discuss hopes for Haiti’s development
February 22, 2013 | The Dartmouth

Engineering major Yves-Marie Duperval ’14, who attended three months of classes at an engineering school in Haiti, said he felt lucky to receive an education because many Haitian children do not have the same opportunity.

Dartmouth Engineering Major Selected to Attend National Biodiesel Conference
February 13, 2013

Engineering major Morgan Curtis ’14 was one of 16 college students given a unique opportunity to grow her passion for biodiesel at the National Biodiesel Conference & Expo last week in Las Vegas.

Surgical Probe Uses Fluorescence to Guide Brain Tumor Removal
February 4, 2013

A team from Thayer School of Engineering and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is among the first to harness fluorescence to prevent tissue damage during brain surgery.