{"id":19885,"date":"2015-01-14T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=19885"},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:11:12","slug":"ask-the-engineers-goals-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/01\/ask-the-engineers-goals-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Engineers: Goals For 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASKthumb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19796 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASKthumb.jpg\" alt=\"ASKthumb\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 85px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 85\/85;\" \/><\/a>Engineers have lots of answers to lots of questions. At Momentum, we figured we should take advantage\u00a0this fact with\u00a0Ask the Engineers, in which we ask one question to various folks in the School of Engineering. And readers, if you have a question you&#8217;d like to pose to the engineers, please send it our way.<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">This issue, we asked\u00a0faculty members the following question: What engineering-related goal do you most want to accomplish in 2015?<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6945\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/case-anwar1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6945 size-full img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/case-anwar1.jpg\" alt=\"case-anwar\" width=\"125\" height=\"132\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 125px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 125\/132;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mehdi Anwar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dr. Mehdi Anwar, Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department: <\/strong>I have been thinking about this for quite a while, but this year will make an effort. I believe, similar to electromagnetic wave focusing in plasma, that under certain conditions we could create focused electron beams by manipulating material properties. It\u2019s something that might be used in energy production.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Nicholas Lownes, Associate Professor\u00a0in the Civil and Environmental Engineering departmennt: <\/strong>My goals for 2015 ar<a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/faculty-lownes1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18261 alignright img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/faculty-lownes1.jpg\" alt=\"faculty lownes\" width=\"128\" height=\"197\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 128px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 128\/197;\" \/><\/a>e to launch our new public transportation planning web application, t-HUB (www.thub.uconn.edu), successfully and to publish an interconnected statewide map of Connecticut&#8217;s public transit system built on open data within the application.\u00a0 The intent is that these tools will open up new possibilities for transit planners and operators in evaluating, designing and planning their systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have questions, engineers have answers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":19796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-19885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 12:29:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/19796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19885"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=19885"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}