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Reduce, Reuse, Reprint: Turning Plastic Waste into Filament

April 21, 2020 by Victoria Lubas

group photo of the reprintbot team

NYU Tandon’s RePrint Bot team is working to reduce waste by building a machine that turns bottles and other plastic waste into 3D printing filament.

Filed Under: IT Community Tagged With: 3D Printing & Scanning, MakerGarage, Sustainability, Tandon School of Engineering

Meet NYU Game Center Alum, Winnie Song

February 27, 2020 by Nicolas LeBrun

a character from Winnie Song's Badblood on a red background

Winnie Song is an NYU Game Center graduate, instructor, and independent video game designer who creates visually-rich gaming experiences.

Filed Under: IT Community Tagged With: Arts & Entertainment, NYU Games Center, Tandon School of Engineering, Video Games

Women in Technology Celebrate NYU Trailblazers

December 9, 2019 by Jen Sloan

Shelly J. Smith, Jelena Kovačević, and Kitty Bridges

Join the WIT community in celebrating the impressive artistic and administrative accomplishments of Kitty Bridges, Jelena Kovačević, and Shelly J. Smith, three pioneering women in technology at NYU.

Filed Under: IT Community Tagged With: LaGuardia Studio, Tandon School of Engineering, Women in Technology

HPC Employee Iqra Shaikh Named a Forbes Under 30 Scholar

October 7, 2019 by Victoria Lubas

Tandon's Dean Jelena Kovačević and Iqra Shaikh

Tandon student and IT employee, Iqra Shaikh, was named one of Forbes’ 2019 Under 30 Scholars! Shaikh is pursuing a master’s degree in computer engineering and works in IT’s HPC group.

Filed Under: IT Community Tagged With: High Performance Computing, Tandon School of Engineering

MakerBrace: Using 3D Printing to Make a Difference

April 22, 2019 by Victoria Lubas

Arm of a MakerBrace researcher wearing a prototype brace

Inside the MakerSpace at Tandon’s MetroTech Center, Victoria Bill, MakerSpace Manager, and Gabriella Cammarata, recent graduate of the Integrated Digital Media master’s program, are leading a class in which students 3D print braces for children living with cerebral palsy.

Filed Under: IT Community Tagged With: 3D Printing & Scanning, 3D Scanning, MakerBot, MakerBrace, Medical Research, NYU Langone, Rusk Rehabilitation, Tandon School of Engineering

3D Printing Materials for Submersible Vehicles

April 15, 2019 by Joseph Wread

Close-up a a finger pointing at a container full of microspheres

Syntactic foam is a substance that lends submersible vehicles both strength and buoyancy. Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, has developed a filament that will enable the foam to be printed on standard commercial 3D printers.

Filed Under: Feature, IT Community Tagged With: 3D Printing & Scanning, Research Technology, Tandon School of Engineering, To Move

OpenStack Brooklyn Research Cluster in the NYU Tandon News

March 15, 2019 by Keith Allison

illustration of glowing blue computer servers within a cloud

NYU HPC’s OpenStack Brooklyn Research Cluster is “being used…in such areas as machine learning, web crawling, data analytics, and in complex applications like genomics browsers and sign-language translation.”

Filed Under: At Your Service Tagged With: Brooklyn Research Cluster, High Performance Computing, Navigating Research Technology, OpenStack, Press Coverage, Research Technology, Tandon School of Engineering

Digitizing the History of New York City

January 15, 2019 by Keith Allison

Front page fo the City Record newspaper, June 1873

During the 2018 DH+Data Day, Dana Arwas, an Industry Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media at NYU Tandon, delivered a presentation about the “City Record Historical Project.” The City Record is the official periodical of the city of New York, published every weekday, except for legal holidays, since June 24, 1873 and detailing the day-to-day business of running, governing, and administering one of the most complex cities in the world.

Filed Under: At Your Service Tagged With: Data Services, Digital Humanities, Digitization, Navigating Research Technology, Research Technology, Tandon School of Engineering

NYU Tandon Unveils New MakerGarage

January 8, 2019 by Keith Allison

NYU Tandon’s new MakerGarage in Downtown Brooklyn is ready for the upcoming spring semester! The space boasts a wealth of 3D printing and design resources as well as collaborative work space, a computer lab, storage, a lounge, a video recording booth, and more.

Filed Under: At Your Service Tagged With: 3D Printing & Scanning, MakerBot, MakerGarage, Tandon School of Engineering

Register for Scribble NYC Design Forum, Oct. 14

September 19, 2018 by Keith Allison

On October 14, 2018, NYU IT’s Operations Technology and Support Services (OTSS) will be holding the first annual Scribble NYC Design Forum at the NYU MakerSpace in Brooklyn from 8am to 8pm. This forum will bring together middle school, high school, and college students along with local teachers and school administrators to participate in workshops […]

Filed Under: At Your Service Tagged With: Events, Tandon School of Engineering

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