As fall semester approaches, construction and renovation projects continue to improve the campus experience for students, faculty, and staff. While the pandemic and the associated reduced population on campus has enabled some projects to move ahe
The men are among 19 people killed in mast-bumping crashes in Robinson helicopters in New Zealand. Mast-bumping, sometimes called rotor blade divergence, occurs when an inner part of the main rotor mechanism hits the main rotor drive shaft. Pilots have less than a second to react before the blades slice through the cabin, causing the chopper to break up in flight. It can happen in any helicopter, usually in turbulent or low-gravity conditions, but in Robinsons it is almost always fatal.
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The wreckage of the helicopter crash that killed Stephen Anthony Nicholson Combe, 42, of Wānaka, and James Louis Patterson Gardner, 18, of Queenstown.
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Muhammad Saad Zia
Muhammad Saad Zia, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), placed second in the recent Georgia Tech Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. The event was held on April 9 in a virtual format.
Zia was among 11 graduate students from units in the College of Engineering and the College of Sciences who presented their research in three minutes or less and in a way that anyone can understand. A second Ph.D. student from ECE, Mohammad S.E. Sendi, also took part in the competition.
Zia is advised by ECE Professor Mary Ann Weitnauer and is co-advised by ECE Professor Douglas Blough. The topic of his 3MT talk was “Mitigating Beam Alignment Errors in Millimeter-Wave Communications to Go Beyond 5G.”
Futures Point To Higher Open For Wall Street
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT/PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Early signs from the U.S. Futures Index suggest that Wall Street might open positive on Wednesday.
The Beige Book, Import and Export Prices for March, and Business Inflation Expectations for April as well as a slew of Fed Speeches including that of Fed Chairman Jerome Powel might influence the investor sentiments today.
Asian shares finished mixed, while European shares are trading up.
As of 7.50 am ET, the Dow futures were adding 9.00 points, the S&P 500 futures were gaining 5.00 points and the Nasdaq 100 futures were up 53.00 points.