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Central New York home to some of America's most famous engineers

CNY Business Journal (1994-95), Feb 20, 1995 by Grossman, Naomi

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While they were leading engineering in new directions over the past 50 years, O'Brien and Gere also inadvertently bequeathed to Central New York many other engineering firms, whose engineers started out working at O'Brien and Gere. Among those are Syracuse-based Blasland, Bouck and Lee, which also specializes in environmental engineering, and Steams and Wheler Environmental Engineers and Scientists in Cazenovia.

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One of the indications that a new era was dawning in engineering was the opening of the Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE) Center at Syracuse University in 1984. From the outset, this state-sponsored program emphasized the application of computer technology to problems of interest to industry, and the Center has served as a vehicle for transferring academic research more quickly to the commercial sector. Examples of CASE work with Central New York firms include the development of utility applications for Niagara Mohawk and Utica-based Kaman Sciences, as well as design and manufacturing systems for Carrier Corporation. The Center has also led to the formation of over two dozen high-tech companies, such as Coherent Research, Inc., in East Syracuse, Sonnet Software in Liverpool, and TextWise, Inc., which is located in the CASE incubator.

Current research focuses on software engineering, computer-aided design, distributed (multimedia) information systems, and scientific modeling. Recently, a CASE research team developed a memory architecture that allows data to be stored in three dimensions. Such 3-D optical memories, which use light instead of electrical signals to store and process data, represent a new generation of ultra-high-density random-access storage that can enhance storage capacities a thousandfold over current technologies. A small company in the Center's incubator is investigating commercialization of this novel volumetric memory.

"We have a ready supply of well-educated engineering people." says Stephen J. Miller, P.E., president of the Central New York chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers. "That encourages manufacturers to come here, which ultimately requires additional support of engineering services."

And then there is that other, less tangible, reason: the innovative spirit that seems to have touched so many Central New York engineers. As the region's engineering history reveals, it's a safe bet that the spirit's work is no yet finished.

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Central New York home to some of America's most famous engineers

CNY Business Journal (1994-95), Feb 20, 1995 by Grossman, Naomi

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