Engineering is a very old discipline, and may be defined as the application of science and mathematics to the solution of practical problems arising in the design and manufacture of complex artifacts. Prior to the eighteenth century, engineering was...

Computer engineering (also called electronic and computer engineering) is a discipline that combines elements of both electrical engineering and computer science.[1] Computer engineers are electrical engineers that have additional training in the areas...

TRANSPORT IN GRASS SWALES. Yukio Nara and Robert E. Pitt, Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng., Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. I am conducting research in investigating the effectiveness of grass swales for sediment transport. Grass swales are vegetated open channels...

AN AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR MICROARRAY IMAGE ANALYSIS. Wei-Bang Chen and Chengcui Zhang, Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294. Wen-Lin Liu, Dept. of Management, Marketing, and Industrial Distribution, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294 ...

A former Florida college professor who pleaded guilty to aiding a Palestinian terrorist group was not immune from a subpoena forcing him to testify in an unrelated probe of Muslim charities, an appeals court ruled Friday.Sami Al-Arian, 50, had argued the terms of the plea...

While most weather forecasters focus on the six or seven miles of earth's atmosphere where clouds drift and storms form, Jonathan Makela's sights are set much higher.Makela, a University of Illinois electrical- and computer-engineering professor, is working on a way to forecast the weather in...