In aeronautical jargon, a jetpod is a "VQSTOL" (very quiet, short take off and landing) aircraft, explained Dr. Joe Iannelli, Associate Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at London's City University.
Eric Fenton , an associate professor of aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed a system that allows planes to fly by following typed directions similar to the verbal commands a flight controller might give.
"It enhanced the brain's perception across the board, not only to things that are obviously a threat but also to things that aren't obvious but might be threats, " says Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Stony Brook University in New York and lead author of the article.
Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering.
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Christian Parigger, associate professor of physics, and Jacqueline Johnson, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering, along with Robert Splinter of Splinter Consultants, have developed the invention.
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"This is an imperfect science, " said Yoshi Kohno, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington.
"In the next five years we're going to see more and more exoskeletons out there in practice, " says Sugar, associate professor at the Department of Engineering, Arizona State University.
"If this technology works on a commercial scale the way we believe it will, the treatment of wastewater could be a huge energy producer, not a huge energy cost, " said Hong Liu, an associate professor in the OSU Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering.
"If people think of it at all, they tend to associate engineering with heavy industry and civil infrastructure, " the academy says on its website.
Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.
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From the scientific perspective, for the story to close for science, flight rates have to be high, said Alan Stern, chair of the scientific organizing committee for the conference and associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder.
Michael Akilian is an associate at venture capital firm Alsop Louie Partners and electrical engineering student at the University of Texas Austin.
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