HUNCH stands for ‘High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware’. It’s a nationwide program that looks to involve students in the design process for NASA products. NASA engineers look to these students to provide a new perspective.

Prudent Engineering LLP, a multi-disciplinary engineering and land survey firm, has hired Zachary Ward as senior computer-aided design and drafting technician in the survey department in the firm’s East Syracuse office.

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The challenge before Johns Hopkins University engineering students: Take a leaf blower, but make it quiet. Make it work as powerfully as ever, but do not allow it to emit the ear-piercing caterwaul that has gotten leaf blowers banned in some communities and cursed in many others.

Two new graduates from Arizona State University visiting the famous Fossil Creek area in Arizona died after slipping into the water, officials say.

“You have to get to the hose clamp that’s buried as [expletive] in there. This engineering is unacceptable. If the snorkel rips or if the air tube that goes to the PCV valve breaks, then you have to replace the whole [expletive] thing,” he said.