Current Issue
Vol.81 No.2, 2009
The Aging Population
Every year, one in three adults age 65 and older has a fall that results in injury significant enough to require medical attention.
The statistic is not lost on Richard T. Hart, chairman of the College of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Students, Researchers Solve Industry Challenges at Gas Turbine Lab
Don’t blink.
If you do, you might miss some of the research at the College of Engineering’s Gas Turbine Lab.
Reducing Risk, Promoting Production
A new center at Ohio State will enable automotive industries and the university to work together to design processes to both protect worker health and optimize new vehicle production.
The Center for Occupational Health in Automotive Manufacturing is a unique interdisciplinary partnership between an assortment of university departments, automobile manufacturers and automobile suppliers to provide a real world environment to study and perfect high-tech manufacturing technology along with state-of-the-art occupational health risk assessment techniques.
Ohio Supercomputer Center
Somnath Ghosh envisions a day when the lifespan of aircraft engines could be predicted with better certainty.
The variables involved, however, seem endless: How much load would the aircraft carry? What are the failure characteristics of each composite used in each part? How much impact could they withstand? What effect does natural degradation have over time?
