Design News - May 5, 2003

Cover Story

MEMS sensors may look like ordinary ICs, but inside they're mechanical systems with extremely small masses, springs and beams.

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Ask The Search Engineer
BMOC
Role Modeler
Calamities
The Case of the Hilltoppers
Designer's Corner
Integrated valves multiply air line pressure
Expo
Materials
NiMH Battery Monitor Touts Accuracy
Fastening/Joining/Assembly
Fluid Power
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Software/Hardware
Electronics
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Sensors
Gadget Freak
Steve and Friends Discover that Inventing Can Be Intoxicating
Mail
Readers Sound Off
Measurements In The Design Flow
Resolution and Accuracy: Cousins, not Twins
My View
Lying with Statistics, Sort of
Rant
E-Learning Emerges
Slant
Nanotech: The Next Testing Wave
The Next Generation
Engineering Students You'd Love to Hire
Weblog
The Lessons of Home Repair

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