Design News - February 23, 2004

Cover Story

"It was definitely a paradigm shift," says Design News 2004 Engineer of the Year Paul Bevilaqua, recalling when DARPA awarded contracts to develop a common, affordable, strike fighter to Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, and Boeing in the early-1990s. "Typically, the military issues some pretty tight performance specs.

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Ask the search engineer
Calamities
The Case of the Shortened Shotguns
Design News Salutes
Contributing to Engineering Success
Designer's Corner
Cable management provides long life, saves space
Movable shields protect machining center's axes of motion
Chip encoder offers tight control for high-volume applications
Connector ground plane lowers signal losses
Expo
Show Products
Featured Product
Control Panels Double as Processors
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Mark's Next Challenge: Getting the Internet on His Watch
My View
Blue-Sky Thinking
Rant
Design for the unexpected
Slant
Lifespan Key for Bearings
Weblog
The Web We Weave

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