Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 2 No. 2 Summer 2017 | Page 2

Message from the Dept Head
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In Memoriam: J.B. Jones
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Graduation
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Magneticelectro Materials
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Lei Zuo, ASME Da Vince Award Winner 26
AutoDrive Challenge 27
Contents
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Vol 2.2 Summer 2017
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Simulating autonomous driving Biogas/Senior Design
Autonomous vehicles are on their way to our
roads, and a lab in Goodwin Hall is using sim-
ulator technology to help make the transition
safe and efficient. As part of their senior design capstone,
students turned food waste into electricity and
the result is unit that has potential for scaling to
farms and other uses.
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