Design News - June 27, 2005

Cover Story

While working on some of the military's most important defense aircraft during the early 1990s, Lockheed Martin engineer Paul Bevilaqua spent countless hours hunched in front of a Commodore 64 computer, playing Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. Bevilaqua, a renowned aerospace designer who holds a Ph.D. in engineering and is chief engineer of advanced projects at Lockheed, was developing professional expertise by crashing virtual airplanes into the virtual earth.

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Ask The Search Engineer
Calamities
The Case of the Fire-Breathing Forklift
Cool Software Tricks
Editing in a Multi-CAD Environment
Designer's Corner
Technology You Can Use
Designing With Plastics
How to manage stress
Expo
Fluid Power
Electronics
Software/Hardware
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Featured Product
Logic Analyzers Go Beyond 1's and 0's
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Guido Had a Strong Aversion to Overbrewed Oolong
Green Scene
Lead-Free Just Keeps Going and Going and …
Mail
Readers Sound Off
My View
Washing Machine Wars: Final Episode
Rant
High-Voltage Design Deserves Attention
Slant
Becoming On-Demand
Trend Watch
Go with the Flow
Motors and Batteries
Extended Range Inductive Sensors
Weblog
Engineering Education's Unhappiness Quotient

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Machine Vision

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