UW-Madison engineering student receives awards for developing noise cancellation theory
By Hannah Malone | Sep. 12, 2016UW-Madison formally congratulated Chris Nguyen, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major, Monday morning at Engineering Hall for winning the grand prize in General Electric's “Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition” competition. The challenge asked participants to debunk common idioms such as “A snowball’s chance in hell,” or, for Nguyen, “You can’t unring a bell.” Noise cancellation technology and research on sound waves were used to help Nguyen support his theory. “I found the premise of the proposal on accident,” Nguyen said.