Are you tired of waking up groggy each morning and struggling out of bed? Have you ever tried to watch a movie, only to have sunlight glare on the screen? Do you want to save on energy costs and more efficiently end each day by removing a chore from your already full plate? Opening and …
[Last update: January 10th, 2017.] While we have explored heated reactors, surge tanks, heat exchangers and the like, the discussed principles are by no means the only place in which they can be used. In fact, dynamic control and automation are an increasingly relevant (and invisible) part of our everyday lives – the same idea of …
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Fueling up the tank of your car is never fun. Often it’s either too warm out or it’s so cold that you are freezing inside your car. It takes so much time that we often want to make it worth our while. Therefore when that fateful click happens and the pump shuts off we decide …
Heatin’ Up! (The Lafayette College Pool) by George, Brian, and Erich What’s The Application?: Imagine waking up at 5:40 in the morning after a night of studying Process Control, getting no more than six hours of sleep. I know, the first thing you want to do at this moment is get out of bed for …
Among the finer things in life, few moments compare to your morning cup of tea in your plaid pajamas with a sleeping cat snuggling into your lap by the fireside as you watch the lightly falling snow christen the mountaintops. But, who really has time for all of that? In reality, we are busy, on-the-go …
Authors: Noureen Abdel Rahman, Erin Coyne, and Kyla Dewey I ALWAYS MISS MY 8 AM’S!!! We feel you, we totally do, and we know that you struggle to get out of bed early especially when you are going to Process Controls at 8am. You are not the only one who has to get up at early …
Are you ever randomly in the mood for a cheeseburger? I know I am! Oh wait, it’s raining outside, I don’t want to go out there to turn on the barbecue! Lucky for you all out there, we have created the JAM Burgernator to solve all of those problems! This machine is designed to cook …
Background Did you ever wonder in your wildest possible imagination that one day an automated anesthetic machine can sedate a patient without the need for human anesthesiologists? No, right…neither did us! When we first heard about it, it sounded a mere fantasy but to our surprise it is something that scientists are currently working on, …
Olympus Energy’s debut: “SnowMelt” Technology by Paul Hackett, Chris Ehrhardt, and Wisam Bellan What is the application? Every year snow covers the majority of the United States for some period of time. Solar panels scattered around the northern regions of the United States and Canada lose millions of dollars worth of energy …
Background on air conditioning: During 1840s, when there was no cool air from air conditioning to expel the extreme heat in summer, tropical disease that survive in hot, humid conditions, such as malaria, flourished and there was no easy way to make patient in hospital to feel more comfortable. Dr. John Gorrie, who was a respectable …
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Whether you are a sugar daddy or monitoring your sugar levels, you are just trying to stay in control of your life, whether that be diabetes or otherwise. When food is consumed, the body breaks down the sugars and starches into a simple sugar commonly referred to as glucose. Glucose, which is stored in the …