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  • March

    ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Children explore a model of a U.S. Coast Guard vessel as they learn about river navigation Feb. 25 during Engineer Week at the St. Louis Science Center.

    Federal partnership brings students closer to Mississippi River, STEM

    Nearly 8,000 children of all ages played in the Mississippi River and learned to navigate the Mighty Miss Feb. 25-26, 2012 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District and the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Upper Mississippi River participated in Engineer Week at the St. Louis Science Center.
  • Nicole Wayant, a Topographic Engineering Center geographer and mathematician, works with students in their classroom during an earlier ERDC Geographic Information Systems Day.

    ERDC researchers visit school for Engineering Month

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) Mathematician Katlyn Winter and Nicole Wayant, a graduate of the Department of Defense and ERDC Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) program and currently a TEC geographer and mathematician, recently provided a presentation on the inter disciplinary relationships between math and geography for second and sixth graders at Fort Belvoir Elementary School.
  • A carbon nanotube depiction.

    ERDC coordinates STTR proposal, industrial production of super fiber

    ERDC's Advanced Materials Initiative (AMI) program produced a scalable molecular design for a carbon nanotube-based fiber with a maximum ultimate tensile strength of 8.6 million pounds per square inch (psi) (60-GPa), or about 86 times that of high-strength steel.
  • John Feller (r), Japan District Engineer, presents a gift card to David Bordenave who earned the first place during the 2012 West Point Bridge Design Contest. (Official Japan Engineer District photo by T.W. Lyman)

    2012 West Point Bridge Contest Involves Four Japan High Schools

    CAMP ZAMA, JAPAN – High School students from four Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)

  • February

    SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HI - U.S. Army and Absher Construction officials man the Hawaiian o'o sticks and ceremonial gold shovels prior to the official ground breaking for the new 228 personnel UEPH on Montague Street. Army personnel participating in the official groundbreaking were: Lt. Col. David Hurley, 25th ID Division Engineer (left), Lt. Col. Douglas Guttormsen, commander U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District (second from left), and Col. Douglas Mulbury, commander, USAG-HI (fifth from left).

    Army Corps, Garrison Break Ground on New Barracks for Schofield’s HHBN Soldiers

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii and contractor Absher Construction officials broke ground on a new $35.3 million barracks during a traditional Hawaiian blessing ceremony here, Feb. 23, 2012.