Design News - November 3, 2003

Cover Story

Most people enjoy clean air, but it can give heavy-truck engineers a real headache now that truck builders have to comply with Environmental Protection Agency regulations that require them to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 40%.

Departments

Ask
Ask The Search Engineer
BMOC
Vertical Union
Calamities
The Case of the Recalcitrant Rim
Designer's Corner
Elastomeric connectors squeeze into small spaces in tight DEVICES
Expo
Electronics
Fastening/Joining/Assembly
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Software/Hardware
Fluid Power
Featured Product
Controller/Drive 'Sandwiches' Eliminate Wiring, Saving Time and Cost
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
CAD/CAM/CAE Software
Gadget Freak
Don Secretly Dreamed of Building a Time Machine
Mail
Readers Sound Off
Measurements In The Design Flow
Reuse your software
Maximizing Code Reuse Speeds Test Development
My View
It's Such a Drag
Rant
More Meetings, Please
Slant
Motor Control Gets Easier
The Next Generation
Engineering Students You'd Love to Hire
Weblog
This Old Doghouse

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