National Grid Demos Live Line Safety

At National Grid, safety is in our DNA. To help promote electric safety, we created a seven-minute version of our electric live line safety demonstration. How much do you know about electricity safety?

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Game Theory in Supply Chain Management

This video explains supply chains and their management.  It also talks about game theory and its application in supply chains. 

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Mixing Mastered

In this activity, we will demonstrate the essence of mixing through an activity of blending a couple of colored dough balls. You will learn how blending these balls can be accomplished by simply following the fundamental actions of mixing processes: repeated stretching and folding.  

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3D Food Printing

Simulate the 3D food printing process through a simple activity, and compare your results to a real 3D food printer!

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Bringing Gompei to Life with Visual Effects

This exhibit highlights the creation of a short film starring Gompei the Goat, Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s mascot, exploring campus during the time of the covid-19 pandemic. Specifically, this video gives life to the “Proud Goat” bronze statue overlooking the WPI Quadrangle and imagines him reminiscing on the pre-pandemic times of campus bustling with activity. Being unaware of the covid-19 pandemic due to the lack of a respiratory system, statue-Gompei is wandering campus with curiosity as to where everyone went.

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Modeling Disease Outside the Body

The Whittington Research Group is making models of human disease outside of the body. You can view an overview of the work, and see students in the lab. Work is described using a LEGO analogy, because we know a lot people are familiar with building models with Legos or blocks.

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Gordon Library and Space Exploration

The Gordon Library Team created a research guide that includes information & resources about WPI research on space exploration and related topics, fun activities, and an “Archives Corner” highlighting the timeline of WPI’s space exploration.

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Making Travel Safer by Getting Vehicles to Communicate

“You can’t have autonomy without connectivity.” That’s the contention of Alexander Wyglinski, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and an internationally recognized expert in wireless communications. One of Wyglinski’s interests is the wireless technology that will be needed to connect vehicles as they share the road. Wireless connections will enable them to exchange information about road conditions, traffic and so on, thus increasing their situational awareness well beyond the range the cameras and sensors that give autonomous vehicles a view of the environment around them. In Wyglinski’ s view, vehicle connectivity, which may involve cutting-edge technologies like cognitive radio, is an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles, as it will be essential to their safe operation.

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Unit Operations: Inside a 3-Story Pilot Scale Chemical Engineering Lab

Learn about Chemical Engineering and take a guided of our unit operations laboratory with all its pilot-scale equipment that chemical engineers use to make the fuels and chemicals we use each day. See 3-story packed towers, fluidized bed reactors, heat exchangers, and more. For an interactive twist, take control of any of the nine high definition pan-tilt-zoom cameras located around the actual lab and see what’s happening live!

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Advancing Medical Robotics at WPI

Medical robotics is a growing focus area within the Robotics Engineering Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. Researchers are working on advances in surgical robotics (including innovative robots designed to work inside MRI scanners), assistive robots (including systems to aid in stroke rehabilitation), and even robotic nursing systems. Opening in 2019, PracticePoint, a research, development, and commercialization alliance located at WPI’s Gateway Park, will provide an exciting new venue for creating and testing medical robotics and cyberphysical systems. Learn More: wpi.edu/+RBE

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