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Investigating pulsed detonation engines at GE

Hi Everyone, as you have probably read from my colleague’s blogs, we are investigating pulsed detonation engines (PDEs) as a future engine technology. Detonation combustion can be used in many engine cycles including gas turbine engines. So, what’s all the excitement about, you ask? PDEs have the potential to provide a game-changing leap forward in engine performance. We have made a lot of great progress in the lab and are pushing the technology forward.

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September 9th, 2009 | Advanced Propulsion, Aviation

TAGS: pulsed detonation engines

Patient monitoring with no wires or cables

I am a member of the Radio Frequency and Photonics Laboratory at GE Global Research. We develop a variety of RF sensing and wireless communications technologies. Most recently, my colleagues and I have been working with GE Healthcare to change the game for ambulatory patient monitoring with Medical Body Sensor Networks.

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September 1st, 2009 | Healthcare

TAGS: sensors

Manufacturing in the Global Research clean room

Hi all, I wanted to introduce you to my colleague at GE Global Research, Stacey Kennerly. Stacey has filmed a video blog entry with an update from the Global Research clean room…. enjoy!

Hi All,

I’m Stacey Kennerly, bringing you another video blog entry from the clean room. In the last video, Ron gave you a little bit of an overview of the size and scope of our clean room (like the fact that we’re working on a scale that is about 160 times smaller than a strand of hair!). I wanted to tell you about one of the projects that we’ve worked on in the clean room.

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August 26th, 2009 | Micro & Nano Structures

TAGS: nanomaterials, nanoparticles, nanostructures, videos

HIV/AIDS Sabbatical Postscript: Our Book Has Been Published

Hi, this is Roger Hoerl with a postscript to my HIV/AIDS sabbatical blog, documenting my joint research with Presha Neidermeyer of the University of West Virginia. I am delighted to report that after almost two years of work, our book on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and what might be done to address it has finally been published. Links to the book webpage and the webpage of the publisher – where it is now available – are given below. This book is based on the research that Presha and I conducted while I was on my Coolidge sabbatical in 2007, which included a month-long trip to Africa to witness the devastation of AIDS first-hand. As noted in previous blog entries, it is clear to us that no matter how much money is expended, AIDS will not be solved quickly, but that it can be solved. We believe that it can be solved one person, one village at a time, with the active involvement of each sector of society, including healthcare, education, religious organizations, government, and business.

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August 19th, 2009 | Computing & Decision Sciences

Next Generation PV Research Update

Hello, it has been some time since the last blog entry on our work in Nano/Next Generation Photovoltaics (PV). Since January of 2008 a lot of exciting developments have occurred. In September 2008 I was in Valencia, Spain to present our work on nanowire solar cells in the opening Plenary Session of the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU PVSEC).

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August 10th, 2009 | Energy, Nanotechnology