2011

11-30-11Armendariz

EPA's Armendariz fights for state's environment

November 30, 2011

Tom Smith makes a case for Dr. Al Armendariz as Texan of the Year for his contributions to improving Texas' environment

11-21-11DesignChange

November 21, 2011

Learn more about this exciting new degree resulting from collaboration between academic and government leaders and multi-industry SMU professionals.

11-7-11SiemsOPED

November 04, 2011

Tom Siems explains the origin and purpose of the Texas Ratio and how it has become distinctively less Texan since the financial crisis.

11-3-11OtugenChristensen

November 03, 2011

SMU Lyle professors Christensen and Otugen continue their groundbreaking research: creating truly life-like prosthesis for the Pentagon.

10-31-11PredictingHurricanes

October 31, 2011

SMU Lyle professors Maggie Dunham, Michael Hahsler, Yu Su develop modeling technique to predict speed of hurricane winds.

10-26-11ResendizABC

October 26, 2011

Tweet from SMU first year brings "Made in America" to SMU

10-19-11WaterTeam

Team awarded first place in state-wide competition in April

October 19, 2011

SMU represents Texas for the third year in a row, provides strong showing at the largest water quality conference held in north America.

10-12-11Migration

New partnerships are being forged to encourage young engineers to use their skills in the service of refugees.

October 12, 2011

Stephanie Hunt and Geoffrey Orsak write about the efforts of the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity to forge partnerships that encourage young engineers to use
their skills in the service of refugees.

10-11-11OrsakDesignNews

Few in the history of technology defined our times like Jobs

October 11, 2011

Dean Orsak reminisces about all of the touch points in his life that have involved the technology developed by Apple and its visionary, Steve Jobs.

10-7-11OrsakonSteveJobs

October 07, 2011

Dean Orsak comments on Steve Jobs's rise from the Bay Area counterculture to prominence in Silicon Valley

10-7-11Quicksall

Lab headed by Dr. Andrew Quicksall to address water quality in refugee camps

October 07, 2011

Lab headed by Dr. Andrew Quicksall to address water quality in refugee camps.

9-30-11HartCenter

September 30, 2011

Organizations with a common leadership mission partner to research, design and implement new educational elements that enhance the value of an engineering education.

9-21-11DrakeFrankAerospace

September 25, 2011

SMU student Drake Frank discusses how he got started with Solar System Express and some of the projects that they work on

9-23-11OrsakDesignNews

Engineers are needed to help deal with the East African crisis.

September 23, 2011

Dean Orsak discusses the crisis in East Africa and how engineering and collaboration with the African people is the only path to improvement.

9-5-11Orsak

September 05, 2011

A candid interview with Lyle School of Engineering Dean Geoffrey Orsak on the state of engineering today, the challenges that the industry faces, and why he became an engineer.

8-24-11MitchThornton

August 24, 2011

Lyle Engineering Professor Mitchell Thornton talks to CBS 11 News of Dallas about the requirement for a licensed engineer on a Dallas Area Rapid Transit project.

5-20-11InnovationGym

May 20, 2011

National Instruments has joined Lockheed Martin in supporting the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering’s Innovation Gym.

5-17-11HartConference

May 17, 2011

Nearly 100 engineering and computer science students from Texas converged on Dallas for the All Across Texas Engineering Leadership Development Conference.

4-29-11Deloitte

April 29, 2011

SMU takes 2nd at NCCDC Regional Competition

5-2-11SiemsWSJ

April 28, 2011

Dr. Tom Siems compares California and Texas in this letter to the editor.

5-2-11YouIEEESpectrum

So far, harvesters can get milliwatts of electricity from sound. That might be enough for some things

April 26, 2011

Lyle Professor Jeong Ho You's research focuses on harnessing the power of sound.

4-13-11Debate

Town hall format set for Thursday, April 14 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on the SMU campus

April 13, 2011

Do the benefits of nuclear power outweigh the risks? This Thursday, April 14, SMU Lyle School of Engineering students will discuss the ethics of engineering and nuclear energy.

4-11-11SustainableVillage

April 11, 2011

The Hunt Institute's Engineering and Humanity Week kicks off April 11 with the opening of the Living Village.

4-11-1LivingVillage

April 11, 2011

SMU Lyle is turning part of its campus into a refugee camp, straight out of a third-world country.

4-8-11LyleWater3Peat

April 08, 2011

Team of Lyle engineers takes first place, advances to represent Texas in national competition.

3-20-11LivingVillage

Stephanie Hunt is building a village to inspire a generation

March 12, 2011

Stephanie Hunt wants people to see, touch, feel and then dream up solutions for some of the grittiest problems facing the impoverished world.

3-8-11OrsakDesignNews

Launch of Engineering and Humanity Week promises to explore solutions to global human improvement from the ground up.

March 08, 2011

The first Engineering and Humanity Week will take place April 11-15, 2011, on the SMU campus with the centerpiece being the student-led effort to construct a "living village."

3-7-11CSESeniorsDesignAndroidApp

March 07, 2011

Amir Ghadiry and Brian Tannous receive acclaim for new SeekDroid App.

3-1-11PopularScience

Light bridges the communication gap between man and machine

March 01, 2011

SMU researchers developing technology that will revolutionize bionic limbs.

2-23-11Visioneering

DFW Engineers Mentor Middle Schoolers at a High Energy Event Celebrating National Engineers Week

February 23, 2011

Will teens in 2020 have holographic cell phones? Voice texting capability? 3D TVs? Find out what Dallas-area students dream and devise for our future on Feb. 26.

2-15-10HuntAfrica

Project will allow entreprenuers to make money by selling clean, safe water in emerging markets

February 15, 2011

HabiHut, in collaboration with The Hunt Institute, will package a “turn-key” business to be sold as franchises to micro-entrepreneurs in the developing world.

1-6-10HardWork

January 06, 2011

Geoffrey Orsak loves it when students come to Caruth Hall to play. As Dean of The Lyle School of Engineering, Orsak oversees SMU's newest intellectual playground, which he calls a "Sandbox for Innovation."

1-11-11GadgetGirl

January 01, 2011

Design News magazine highlights Lyle Student Raven Sanders' work on a gadget that takes a three-dimensional approach to mixing sound.