The Softer Side of Robots:

What if you could design a robot that could climb up textured surfaces, crawl along ropes and wires, or burrow into confined spaces? According to Barry Trimmer, a professor of biology at Tufts, you could "make dangerous surgeries safer, repair space stations by accessing hard-to-reach places, and work in dangerous environments like nuclear reactors and landmine fields."
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Taking the Lead:
Tufts is recognized as a place where engineering leaders are made

Three pioneers in creating engineering leaders have just been rewarded for their efforts. In February, the pioneers who created Tufts Gordon Institute (TGI) received the National Academy of Engineering 2007 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. TGI Director Arthur W. Winston, former colleagues Harold S. Goldberg and Jerome E. Levy, and the institute itself will share in the $500,000 prize, which recognizes their efforts in developing a multi-disciplinary graduate program for engineering professionals who want to move into management positions.
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The Exciting Side Of Engineering:
Through a variety of community projects and outreach activities, Nerds Girls-a group of women engineering students at Tufts-are creating excitement about engineering.

What do building a solar race car, powering a lighthouse and developing software to train helper monkeys for quadriplegics have in common? For the engineering students of Tufts' Nerd Girls, they are all ways to demonstrate the thrill of engineering, experience real engineering at work, and make a difference in the community.
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Tufts Engineering Researchers in the News
In each issue, Engineering eNews will feature members of our community who are conducting groundbreaking or newsworthy research.

Technology May Bridge Emotion Gap between Humans and Computers
When the screen freezes and the e-mail you were typing gets lost in cyberspace, you may want to curse and kick your computer. Computers can't sense human emotion and may lose all your valuable work without registering your frustration. Erin Treacy is a Tufts University School of Engineering graduate student trying to bridge the gap between human emotions, like frustration, and computer functionality.
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Don't Drink the Water: Shafiqul Islam studies Bangladesh's arsenic-contaminated water supply
"Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink." Perhaps one person at Tufts University who truly relates to this verse is Shafiqul Islam, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Dean for Research. Islam uses an interdisciplinary approach to address one of the most relevant contemporary problems: scarcity of and access to clean drinking water.
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