A team of four Eastern Mennonite University students, with principal investigator Professor Stefano Colafranceschi, are contributing to the design and implementation of new particle physics detector technology. The funding for ... read more about Jeffress Grant funds interdisciplinary STEM research to create new particle physics detector technology
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 ... read more about Engineering students test extraterrestrial farming
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 ... read more about Recent grads file patent, hoping to put a dent in global food waste
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, ... read more about EMU’s first engineering grads head to work, grad school and service
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 ... read more about Computer science and engineering prof to speak on the primordial universe
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 ... read more about EMU engineers’ weather balloon lands in Maryland
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 ... read more about For his engineering capstone project, this senior built a wind tunnel for EMU
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 ... read more about Getting ‘under the hood’: Linux workshop at EMU features expert input and hands-on practice
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 ... read more about EMU senior’s Soil Cycles business by cycle collects compost
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 ... read more about Team readies for design work on EU-funded hypersonic aircraft project