鈥淩obots and Other Amazing Gadgets Invented 800 Years Ago,鈥� a children’s book by the UW’s Faisal Hossain and Qishi Zhou, shares the inventions of Ismail Al-Jazari, a 12th-century polymath considered by many to be the 鈥渇ather of robotics.鈥�
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天美影院students created a rover that can inspect sewer pipes or culverts for any damage that could prevent fish from using them during migration.
Here’s a quick look at some giftworthy books and music created by 天美影院faculty and staff in 2020, and a reminder of some recent favorites.
New books by 天美影院faculty members include children’s works profiling STEM researchers and a personal memoir of an immigrant’s journey to freedom. Also, 天美影院Press remembers a century of publishing, and a book on British colonialism is honored.
Noting the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, NASA has featured UW-led research by Faisal Hossain that uses satellite data to help farmers manage water more efficiently.
Using 30 years of satellite data, 天美影院researchers discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam in the Mekong River basin, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C).
This fall the 天美影院’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three 天美影院engineers and scientists who are working across disciplines to manage the quality and quantity of the food we eat and grow.
Pakistan’s water managers are using NASA satellites to more effectively monitor groundwater supplies, thanks to a partnership with 天美影院civil and environmental engineers. It’s part of a larger effort to use the vast amount of data and observations collected by Earth-orbiting satellites to better quality of life in developing countries.