Vol. 89, No. 1

  • Dollars and Sense: Tom DeLoach

    Dollars and Sense: Tom DeLoach

    Despite growing up in prime racing country (south Georgia) and attending a car-crazy school (Georgia Tech), Tom DeLoach, ChE 69, didn’t go to a race until well into his career at Mobil. But one taste of the track was enough to hook him. He became a fan and headed up the Mobil Motorsports program. In more

  • The Science of Running

    The Science of Running

    As a child, Young-Hui Chang would watch National Geographic TV shows and marvel at cheetahs chasing down gazelles, apes swinging through trees, vampire bats slicing through the air. After beginning his academic career in mechanical engineering, Chang’s interest in animal locomotion returned. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on how humans run in strange environments, such as more

  • On the Hunt for Virus RNA

    On the Hunt for Virus RNA

    Philip Santangelo has a cold. Santangelo, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, doesn’t know where it came from, but he has a guess. Several of his graduate students have been sick, and so he figures one of them must have transmitted the virus to a door handle, which Santangelo then touched with his more

  • Tech Hack: Bill Bulpitt’s Sunbeam Tiger

    Tech Hack: Bill Bulpitt’s Sunbeam Tiger

    Among the many gearheads in the Georgia Tech community, Bill Bulpitt manages to stand out. Bulpitt, ME 70, MS ME 72, restored a Ford Model A when he was 12; rebuilt a flathead Ford V-8 at age 16; served as chairman of his fraternity’s Ramblin’ Reck committee; was captain of the mechanical engineering team in more

  • What’s in a Name?: The Jesse W. Mason Building

    What’s in a Name?: The Jesse W. Mason Building

    Jesse W. Mason was nearing the end of a long and influential tenure at the Institute when he learned his name would grace the new civil engineering building on campus. Mason served on Tech’s faculty from 1938-72. He was a Regents professor in chemical engineering, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and later dean more