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Engineering students test extraterrestrial farming

February 10, 2021Last updated February 12, 2021 by Randi B. Hagi

The radish, turnip, and oregano seeds sit nestled in dark soil. Their cells pull oxygen from tiny pockets of air in the dirt around them – Martian air. The scientists

Recent grads file patent, hoping to put a dent in global food waste

January 28, 2021Last updated February 8, 2021 by Randi B. Hagi

Austin Engle ’20 and Ben Stutzman ’20 recently became inventors, successfully patenting the “Garbage Grader” they created while still students at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). The invention analyzes plates of

EMU’s first engineering grads head to work, grad school and service

May 15, 2020Last updated June 2, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

One master codebreaker and Appalachian Trail hiker, one supercomputer builder and high school soccer coach, one student organization leader headed to doctoral studies, one environmental designer bound for data analysis,

Computer science and engineering prof to speak on the primordial universe

January 21, 2020Last updated February 11, 2020 by EMU communications

Stefano Colafranceschi, PhD, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), will give a Suter Science Seminar on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 4 p.m. in room

EMU engineers’ weather balloon lands in Maryland

December 16, 2019Last updated December 27, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

When the Engineering Design III class at Eastern Mennonite University released a weather balloon into the sky one late November morning, it wasn’t without some trepidation and many questions. Would

For his engineering capstone project, this senior built a wind tunnel for EMU

September 16, 2019Last updated November 4, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Inspired by a visit to a NASA research facility three years ago, Eastern Mennonite University engineering student Dylan Grove ’19 dedicated his senior engineering capstone project to building a wind

Getting ‘under the hood’: Linux workshop at EMU features expert input and hands-on practice

September 6, 2019Last updated September 9, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Eastern Mennonite University students curious about one of the most advanced computer operating systems had a unique opportunity recently: a practical workshop with presentations by experts in Linux. Open to

EMU senior’s Soil Cycles business by cycle collects compost

February 7, 2019Last updated February 19, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Globe-trotting environmental sustainability major and Eastern Mennonite University senior Nidhi Vinod has started a Harrisonburg service – collecting compost by bicycle – that embodies the values she has come to

Team readies for design work on EU-funded hypersonic aircraft project

December 10, 2018Last updated December 10, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

A team from Eastern Mennonite University is the first from the United States to join an international collaborative project to design an economically viable, hypersonic, 300-passenger aircraft. The H2020 STRATOFLY

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