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New Wisk engineering hub to support its 6th generation aircraft development – Inceptive Mind

The market for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts has grown substantially in the past few years. It looks to have a bright future, but many challenges are still ahead. There are numerous number of eVTOL developers across the world, each claiming to be better thanks to some innovative features and functions.

One of them is Wisk Aero, a California-based urban air mobility company that develops self-flying eVTOL aircrafts designed to be operated as air taxis. The company is continuing its global expansion with the launch of a new engineering hub in Montreal, Canada. The hub will be dedicated to the ongoing development of its 6th generation aircraft, to be revealed later this year.

Wisk is launching the new hub with existing Montreal-based personnel and intends to grow this presence to approximately thirty employees by the end of the year.

Wisk has been experiencing rapid growth, driven by a tremendous increase in interest for its mission and technology. In June this year, Wisk also hit other milestones, expanding in Australia and launching a partnership with the City of Long Beach.

Its new Montreal hub is part of a broader effort to further expand its global team of industry-leading talent around the world.

We are excited about the launch of our new Montreal hub, said Sebastien Vigneron, Sr. Vice President of Engineering and Programs. Canadas forward-looking approach to aviation and interest in AAM, combined with its pool of experienced aerospace talent, make it an ideal location for Wisk as we expand our global footprint. This expansion highlights the increasing global interest in our mission to bring safe, everyday flight to everyone, and we look forward to continuing that mission with support from our new Montreal-based hub.

The announcement of the new Montreal hub follows Wisks recent expansion into Australia. In addition to Montreal and its headquarters and facilities around the San Francisco Bay Area, Wisk now has a presence in Atlanta (Georgia), New Zealand, and Australia.

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Formula E Racing Inspires this Northeastern Engineer – News @ Northeastern – Northeastern University

Omkar Ligade was stationed at Turn 4 when the first crash happened. A sudden rainstorm had sent the electric cars sliding across the city streets of Brooklyn.

The race leader lost traction and went into the side protection boards, says Ligade, a Northeastern graduate student in mechanical engineering. Ligade was volunteering as a flagging and communication marshall at the July 16 New York City E-Prix when a pile-up of crashes resulted in an early conclusion to the race.

Ligade brought home a souvenira fender from a crashed Jaguar.

Fortunately no one was hurt, Ligade says. The crashes werent actually loud because the rain reduced their speed, and the carbon fiber [chassis] is really good at absorbing the impact.

Though electric cars are less noisy than traditional gas-powered racers, Ligade found the New York event to be very loud.Very few people know about it because Formula E is in the early stages, Ligade says. But its going to have its boom within a few years.

Formula E was launched in 2014 in alliance with the 73-year-old global Formula 1 circuit, whose growing U.S. audience has been driven by the Netflix reality series Drive to Survive. True to the spirit of electric vehicles, Formula E teams must balance the desire to win with the need to conserve energy as each car is provided with a limited battery for the 45-minute races.

Ligade fell in love with the sport as a mechanical engineering undergraduate at Pimpri Chinchwad College Of Engineering in his native India, where in 2016 he co-founded Team Solarium, a student club that designed and built an electric car annually over three years. The progression made Ligade proud.

The third-year finished product was really lovely, says Ligade, noting that its speed topped out at 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph).

Formula E creates innovations that can be passed onto consumer products. The newest racers feature enhanced regenerative front-mounted brakes that replenish the batterya system so efficient that the cars no longer require a second set of hydraulic brakes in the rear.

The racing department sits directly underneath the technical development department, Allan McNish, Audi Sports Formula E team principal, told Time. There is always the very close hand-in-hand relationship between what we do on the track and what actually comes on the road [for consumers].Formula E is helping to change perceptions of electric vehicles as underperforming. The current racers top out at 280 kilometers per hour (almost 175mph), just 20 kmh behind Formula 1 cars, and their acceleration from zero to 100 kmh in 2.8 seconds rates only 0.2 seconds slower than gas-powered counterparts.

I like that electric vehicles can generate energy, Ligade says. In gas-powered cars, once youve burned the petrol, you cant get that fuel back.

Instead of offering pit stops, Formula E offers attack mode zones on the edges of the track that trigger four minutes of increased power. The five most popular driversbased on a pre-race vote by fansreceive additional power surges, a novelty that Ligade loves.

The evolution of electric vehicles continues to inspire Ligade amid his ongoing co-op with Hasbro, the Rhode Island-based toy manufacturer, where he is working as a reliability engineer.

Omkar is always looking to better understand the why in what we do, which is an essential trait of great engineers, says his supervisor, Lee Tympanick, a senior reliability engineer for quality assurance at Hasbro. He isnt afraid to offer his perspective on a different approach to accomplish a task. He is also passionate about learning new thingsprocedures, equipment, products, skillswhich tells me he wants to keep improving himself to be the best he can be.

Will his love of Formula E drive Ligade to a career in electric vehicles?

Im really interested in designing anything, he says. Designing is the gateway to finding the solution to any problem. It helps you find a better way.

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Clemson and GE team up to bring more engineers into the workforce – UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL – Upstate Business Journal

Employers are finding engineers difficult to come by, but Clemson University is one of the institutions thats looking to make a dent in that.

Through a partnership with GE called the Next Engineers program, high school students or Next Engineers can get up close with engineering through Engineering Academy Greenville. The program exists to help increase not only the number of students entering engineering but also the diversity of those students. According to a recent Pew Research study, only 17 percent of those entering the field were Black or Latino.

On July 22, a cohort of 11th-grade students had the opportunity to check out Clemson University and see some of Watt Family Innovation Center, testing out virtual reality headsets and 3-D printers. Next Engineers also got a look at the Clemson Energy Visualization and Analytics Center, a facility that monitors the carbon footprint of every object on Clemsons campus, down to a tree.

Ive wanted to be a mechanical engineer since I watched the Imagineering documentary on Disney Plus, said Hadley Medeiros, a junior at Daniel High School in Central, South Carolina. It shows how they built the attractions at the Disney theme parks.

The program offers three experiences for students, depending on grade level. They are:

Along with the Greenville schools that Clemson works with serving Greenville, Pickens, Oconee and Spartanburg counties there are hubs in Johannesburg, South Africa; Staffordshire, United Kingdom; and Cincinnati, Ohio.

Through the program, students learn how to think like engineers, with the ultimate goal of moving on to a secondary education in engineering. Students are expected to complete 80 hours per year of learning outside the normal classroom environment and can be eligible for a $20,000 scholarship from GE following completion of the program. Students get everything from immersive design challenges to college readiness workshops.

They come see me here at the University about two times a month, typically on Saturdays, said Brittany Fatima Sanders, project manager for Next Engineers Greenville. We do engineering design challenges; they meet with faculty members and participate in activities like this to get them excited about being engineers and it works.

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How I Moved From Construction to Technology – Engineering News-Record

I made a career change three and a half years ago, and it was the best decision Ive made in my professional life. From time to time, Im asked about that change what motivated it, how I landed at the Oracle Innovation Lab after a career in construction with LendLease, and where my experience in academia fits into everything. In discussing my move, I have found myself repeating three simple pieces of advice I would offer to anyone contemplating a similar career move:

I have always been interested in technology and how people interact with it. I also love building things. My first childhood memories are of my brother and me playing with LEGO bricks. I always cared more about how to build with them than the look or feel of the finished product, and I think that helped propel my early decision to become a civil engineer. During my time as an undergrad, I recognized that I really enjoyed management more than engineering, and I adjusted my focus accordingly.

While I was getting my masters, I discovered I loved teaching others. At the same time, I wasnt interested in becoming a full-time academic, so I found a compromise and a challenge: I decided to work in the construction industry while also continuing with my education to get my PhD. That way, I was able live in both worlds. Once I finished my doctorate, I took an adjunct faculty role at Northwestern University to follow my passion for teaching and continued working full time at Lendlease.

I saw firsthand the disconnect between academia and industry and my work since has in many ways involved efforts to bridge the two. Ultimately, my path has been defined by finding ways to pursue work that I enjoy and adjusting as new areas or ideas captured my interest.

I spent several months networking with others in an attempt to enter the technology field before realizing that my best route was to focus on my own domain, construction.

Thats when, in 2010, a good friend and I organized a conference called TechforConstruction that sought to unite people from industry and academia at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Our first event drew around 150 participants and greatly exceeded our expectations, making us even more excited about bringing these two worlds together.

We hosted three of these events in total, and at the last conference I was asked to write for an industry publication. After finding that process rewarding, I began writing about different tech and construction topics each quarter. The exposure from these articles eventually opened up additional opportunities to speak at conferences about the practical use of tech in the field and to serve as an advisor for a startup. All the while, I continued working on projects that involved large-scale technology implementations in the telecommunications infrastructure field. All of these opportunities came from that first idea to focus on my domain by exploring the nexus of construction and technology.

I have always loved learning, but it became harder and harder to find the time after graduation as life got busier. At some point, I decided to pick a new topic every day and block out time to read about it. Then I went a step further and set up Google alerts for these topics that would be sent to my inbox every evening at 6 pm. It became routine for me to sit in a dark room and read the days articles as I rocked my child to sleep. I found having a dedicated time when I could focus on learning amid a busy work and personal life really helped me.

I still have this habit, but in my current role as co-founder and leader of the Oracle Industry Lab, I work with some amazing experts and innovators who expose me to new ideas every day. The Lab team works side-by-side with customers and partners in a hands-on simulated industry setting to turn ideas into solutions we can implement and use today. We have worked with leading companies including FARO Technologies, which leveraged the Lab to test and develop FARO Trek, an automated scanning integration with Boston Dynamics mobile robot Spot. Ive also taken on the challenge of expanding my domain to other industries in the past few years. I now can see the opportunities and similarities between multiple industries from construction to telecom to utilities to hospitality to food and beverage, just to name a few. So much to learn!

As I said, my decision to take on this role as vice president of innovation at the Oracle Industry Lab was the best career choice Ive ever made. It has allowed me to pursue my interests and continually learn in a community of kindred spirits. Im beyond grateful and thrilled that every single day I get to work with such talented team members, customers, and partners.

Burcin Kaplanoglu is vice president, innovation at the Oracle Industry Lab in Deerfield, Ill. He is active in industry organizations and onLinkedInwhere he provides educational content related to technology, innovation, robotics, AI and industry use cases.

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Can you solve it? Do you have the mind of an engineer? – The Guardian

If you have ever strolled along the Macclesfield canal you may have walked across a snake bridge, like the one above, in which one side of the towpath spirals backward.

The question is: why did they build bridges like this?

Todays challenges are reverse engineering picture puzzles. You are presented with illustrations of five curious structures, and your task is to work out why they were built in that way. First stop, Cheshire.

1. Curly crossing

The Macclesfield canal opened in 1831 and it features several snake bridges, or roving bridges, where the towpath goes from one side to the other in a loop, like the one illustrated above (and photographed at the top of the story.) Why were they built like this? Think about what the canals were originally built for, and look for clues in the picture.

2. Loopy trains

In some places in the world train tracks make a giant loop and then pass under themselves. Why?

3. Puzzling Polynesians

Why did Polynesian boatbuilders make canoes that looked like the one above?

4. Tricky trams

Why are the trams overhead cables positioned to make a zigzag, rather than straight line?

5. Perplexing pipes

In Russian cities, most central heating is provided by pipes that have hot water or steam pumped through them from heating plants a distance away. Why do these pipes sometimes have unusual bends in them, like the one above?

Ill be back at 5pm UK. Please NO SPOILERS. Instead, please discuss your favourite examples of engineering ingenuity.

UPDATE: You can read the answers here.

Todays puzzles were suggested by Nikolai Andreev, a Russian mathematician who last month won the Leelavati Prize, an award given by the International Mathematical Union every four years to recognise outstanding contributions for increasing public awareness of mathematics as an intellectual discipline and the crucial role it plays in diverse human endeavours.

Andreev was commended in particular for the free resource Mathematical Etudes which has many wonderful videos explaining mathematical and mechanical phenomena. He also works closely with Kvantik, a magazine about maths and physics aimed at primary school children, and from which all the illustrations above are taken.

Thanks to Nikolai Andreev and Kvantik for permission to use the illustrations.

I set a puzzle here every two weeks on a Monday. Im always on the look-out for great puzzles. If you would like to suggest one, email me.

Im the author of several books of maths and puzzles, and also the co-author with Ben Lyttleton of the childrens book series Football School. The latest in the Football School series is The Greatest Ever Quiz Book, out now!

I give school talks about maths and puzzles (online and in person). If your school is interested please get in touch.

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studying the Waverly flood – WKRN News 2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) Its been almost one year since the terrible flood in Waverly and Humphreys County.

After the flood, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began a hydrological study of Trace Creek, with the hopes of coming up with solutions on how to mitigate flooding in the future. The full study will take 18-24 months, but the Corps is releasing preliminary results.

They emphasize that its going to take time to develop and implement engineering solutions to mitigate flooding. Meanwhile, they want to make sure emergency managers have the information and tools they need when flooding is a threat. They are developing map books that show how different rainfall amounts will impact homes, public facilities, and bridges that officials can use to plan evacuation zones.

Lt. Col. Joe Sahl, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander of the Nashville District, explained the process.

What it basically shows you is the different colors for the different amounts of rainfall, Lt. Col. Sahl said. And so, as you are planning your emergency response, as we finalize this and get it more detailed, you can start seeing where different levels of different forecasts will impact different structures, homes, public facilities, bridges, and use this to plan your initial evacuation zones.

Thats the different color codes. So, in blue you will see light blue is 7, dark blue is 4, mainly staying within the creek channel. As you get 7 it starts inundating other areas, and then all the way to the purple which is the event from last year in August 2021.

And there are plans to install gauges upstream on the creek that will remotely warn of high levels and impending flooding.

These gauges, especially precip gauges which are more cost-efficient than stream gauges, if we can put those and link them, provide an uplink to those where you can go and view those as a general public or first responder, that makes you comfortable in knowing that you have to leave or that the forecast is accurate, Lt. Col. Sahl explained.

And the biggest issue Waverly residents are concerned about is cleaning debris out of Trace Creek.

During the flood, debris clogged the railroad bridge over the creek that backed up a lake of an estimated 48 million gallons of water.

It then breached the bed of the railroad tracks, sending a tsunami-like surge of water through Waverly. Lt. Col. Sahl says that is part of the study.

Pretty much anything that is restricting the flow of water, whether its natural topography or something thats man-made and designed and put in place, the study looks at how the water moves through the system, Lt. Col. Sahl pointed out. And so, if there are impediments to how the water is moving, that will come out in the study.

The Corps is meeting monthly with the Waverly Flood Task Force to give updates.

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Kung Sing Engineering : The Board of Directors of the Company approved the consolidated financial report for the second quarter of 2022 |…

Statement 1.Date of submission to the board of directors or approval by the board of directors:2022/08/112.Date of approval by the audit committee:2022/08/113.Start and end dates of financial reports or annual self-assessed financial information of the reporting period (XXXX/XX/XX~XXXX/XX/XX):2022/01/01~2022/06/304.Operating revenue accumulated from 1/1 to end of the period(thousand NTD):2,020,9365.Gross profit (loss) from operations accumulated from 1/1 to end ofthe period (thousand NTD):83,7266.Net operating income (loss) accumulated from 1/1 to end of the period(thousand NTD):(18,096)7.Profit (loss) before tax accumulated from 1/1 to end of the period (thousand NTD):(62)8.Profit (loss) accumulated from 1/1 to end of the period (thousand NTD):(31,284)9.Profit (loss) during the period attributable to owners of parentaccumulated from 1/1 to end of the period (thousand NTD):(31,284)10.Basic earnings (loss) per share accumulated from 1/1 to end ofthe period (NTD):(0.06)11.Total assets end of the period (thousand NTD):7,503,28112.Total liabilities end of the period(thousand NTD):2,263,91913.Equity attributable to owners of parent end of theperiod (thousand NTD):5,239,36214.Any other matters that need to be specified:None

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (A / B), School of Computer Science job with UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE | 304560 – Times Higher Education

(Level A/B) $72,829 to $102,952 per annum plus an employer contribution of up to 17% superannuation will apply.

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Multi-Object Tracking and Robotics.

Fixed term position for 1.5 years (possibility of extension to 3 years).

Build your research career within the School of Computer Science and contribute to an innovative project in Multi-Object Tracking and Robotics. Be part of a research team investigating new multi-drone multi-objective trajectory planning for multiple target tracking with drones.

This is an opportunity for a high-achieving postdoctoral researcher to join a world-leading research group in Computer Security and Machine Learning as well as Computer Science department ranked 48th in the world and The University of Adelaide ranked in the top 1% of Universities worldwide. Notably, Adelaide is ranked the third most liveable city in the world and the most liveable city in Australia in 2021.

The University of Adelaide is a member of Australias prestigious Group of Eight research-intensive universities and ranks inside the worlds top 100. In the Australian Governments 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment, 100% of University of Adelaide research was rated world-class or above, with work in 41 distinct fields achieving the highest possible rating of well above world-standard. This included Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The project will involve new inter-disciplinary collaborations with researchers from sciences and national collaborations with institutions involved in multi-target tracking as well as the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG). This should provide significant benefits, such as new theoretical frameworks with provable performance guarantees for muti-drone tasking involving tracking multiple targets and exploring new application areas to benefit wildlife conservation and society in general.

The discoveries to be made in the project will significantly increase our understanding of planning under uncertainty for multi-target tracking. This project represents a unique opportunity to produce future expertise for the Australian workforce, not only in university research, but in industry.

The successful applicant will develop innovative multi-drone planning for tracking algorithms that can use be used in real-world applications under uncertain, dynamic and noisy measurement environments.

To be successful you will need:

Level A

Level B

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programsincluding significant industry, government and community collaborationsoffers you vast scope and opportunity for a long and fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. And our work's cutting-edge naturenot just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavourprovides a constant source of inspiration.

Our core values are honesty, respect, fairness, discovery and excellence. And our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity. We are firm believers that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills of our staff.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs

Your faculty's broader role

The Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology is a multidisciplinary hub of cutting-edge teaching and research. Many of its academic staff are world leaders in their fields and graduates are highly regarded by employers. TheFacultyactively partners with innovative industries to solve problems of global significance.

Learn more at:set.adelaide.edu.au

If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.

Click on the link below to view the selection criteria and to apply for the opportunity.

https://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/510395/postdoctoral-research-fellow-ab-school-of-computer-science

Please ensure you submit a cover letter, resume, and upload a document that includes your responses to all of the selection criteria for the position as contained in the position description or selection criteria document.

Applications close 11:55 pm, 11 September 2022.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:

Damith RanasingheAssociate Professor, School of Computer ScienceP: +61 (8) 8313 0066E: damith.ranasinghe@adelaide.edu.au

The University of Adelaide is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply.

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A New Partnership between Bowdoin College and the Roux Institute – Bowdoin College

Additional collaboration between Bowdoins Career Exploration and Development (CXD) and Roux will include opportunities for Bowdoin students to participate in Rouxs Startup Showcases and Start Summits.

Start Summits are fun, fast-paced weekend events that give undergrads an opportunity to experience building a startup team and racing to develop a business, all with the support of experts and colleagues.

Two Bowdoin students, Roxana Valdez '24 and Ramiro Storni '23, have spent the summer engaging in innovative research projects with the aim of increasing the number of Bowdoin students doing summer research at Roux and the number of students employed as interns at one of Rouxs twenty-six corporate partners.

Designed as an engine of innovation, talent building, and economic growth for Portland, Maine, and northern New England, the Roux Institute has been leading companies and nonprofit organizations at the table from day one, creating programs that are preparing the workforce to stay agile and thrive in a competitive landscape powered by artificial intelligence.

The Roux Institute also helps entrepreneurs launch businesses focused on and powered by technology and with its partners is creating an innovation corridor that will stretch from Boston to Portland and beyond.More about the Roux Institute.

Roux and Bowdoin

Bowdoin shares a long history with David Roux, a former trustee of the College, and his wife, Barbara Roux. The couples generous gift initiated the Roux Center for the Environment, which was completed in fall 2018. The Roux Center brings together faculty from across academic disciplines to encourage collaboration and creativity in the teaching and scholarship of the environment and further strengthens Bowdoins position as a leader in this field of study.

David and Barbara Roux also have extensive family ties to the College. David Rouxs father, Donald Roux, is a member of the Class of 1955; his brother, James Roux, was a member of the Class of 1981; his sister, Mary Roux Train, a member of the Class of 1991; and the couples daughter, Margot Roux, graduated in 2014. David Rouxs mother, Constance Connie Rouxthe sister of Maines former governor James B. Longley, a member of the Class of 1948also took classes at the College.

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Required computer science Blog The Buckeye Institute – Buckeye Institute

This letter to the editor was published in The Columbus Dispatch.

A recent Dispatch opinion piece (Ohio cannot be Silicon Heartland if students are left behind) is correct a talented workforce is necessary to realize Ohios ambitious goal of becoming the Silicon Heartland.

The first step is to equip Ohio high school students with the computer science skills they need to succeed in an increasingly digitalized world.

Unfortunately, computer science is a skill where Ohio lags its peers in nearly every relevant metric. That is why it is so encouraging to see Gov. Mike DeWine join Americas 49 other governors in signing the Compact To Expand K-12 Computer Science Education.

That is a good start, but Ohio lawmakers should go further and require all Ohio public school districts to offer at least one foundational computer science class. Those new classes will require more teachers, and lawmakers must also revisit and update restrictive qualification requirements that limit the number of skilled computer science teachers.

Ohio needs more workers with computer science skills to become the Silicon Heartland and compete economically. Creating that workforce starts in Ohios schools.

Logan Kolas,Economic Policy AnalystThe Buckeye InstituteColumbus

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