A more environmentally-friendly and sustainable method of producing the useful chemical 1,2,4-butanetriol has been discovered. The Kobe University team were the first in the world to utilize a method ...

Researchers discovered that the distance between dislocations in nanolayer interfaces of pearlite can determine how much the material can stretch or contract without breaking (ductility). The ...

Enzymes called proteases act like molecular scissors for proteins in the body and play a role in therapies to stop viruses from replicating and to kill cancer cells. The development of these medicines ...

A patent-pending innovation created and validated in Purdue University's College of Engineering could strengthen ...

Innovative, adaptable curriculum is central to our mission to educate with an eye toward future challenges. The field of engineering is evolving and the ways we teach must match this evolution.

A protein engineering method using simple, cost-effective experiments and machine learning models can predict which proteins will be effective for a given purpose, according to a new study. A protein ...

We’ll guide engineering into the future with new tools and methodologies. How engineers work in the field is changing, and it’s changing quickly. Now is the time to define how engineers will drive the ...

Researchers in the United States have developed a new method to extract 99% pure ...

Every graduate student, creative person and inventor of any stripe has experienced periods when nothing seems to come together, some of us many times. I was waist-deep in such pit after a year-long ...

"Learning is one of the most personal things that people do; engineering provides problem-solving methods to enable learning at scale. How do we resolve this paradox?" —Ellen Wagner Learning ...