EV Battery Might Triple Electric Car Range
Captain Hybrid 3/6/2012 103 comments A startup company has created a low-cost electric car battery with an energy density they claim is almost three times as high as that of the Nissan Leaf battery.
US Faces Off With China Over Rare Earths
Engineering Materials 3/28/2012 66 comments The US, the European Union (EU), and Japan have filed a World Trade Organization action against China for restricting the trade of rare earth minerals.
Slideshow: Airbags From the Inside Out
Captain Hybrid 3/13/2012 64 comments Automakers once balked at the idea of an airbag mandate. Today, airbags come standard, and are even seen in seatbelts and center consoles.
Are Automakers' Managers Hurting Engineering?
Captain Hybrid 3/29/2012 49 comments Toyota and Honda again dominated Consumer Reports' reliability ratings, while BMW, Volkswagen, General Motors, and Chrysler again brought up the rear.
How Do You Define an Engineer?
Guest Blogs 3/5/2012 45 comments Engineers are the multi-talented, multi-skilled tool we use to solve problems -- society's Swiss Army knife.
Should We Pay More Attention to Software Ethics?
Mechatronics Zone 3/13/2012 32 comments Companies will always gather information about us, but it's the software that determines what someone does with that information. Programmers should keep that in mind when creating code.
Slideshow: 3D Printers Make Prototypes Pop
CAD/CAM Corner 3/23/2012 30 comments 3D printers are advancing on both the high and low ends of the spectrum, introducing new materials choices, color options, and price points that make the technology far more accessible to mainstream users.
Slideshow: Design Apps for the Mobile Engineer
CAD/CAM Corner 3/15/2012 29 comments There is a growing variety of mobile design tool apps available, providing engineers with on-the-go access to everything from 3D viewing and markup capabilities, to specialized utilities and technical calculators.
Broken Switch Shocks Engineer
Sherlock Ohms 3/28/2012 29 comments Make no assumptions that an on/off switch actually works. You could end up making a shocking discovery.
Gadget Freak Case #207: Android Breathalyzer in an Altoids Box
Gadget Freak 3/2/2012 28 comments Al Linke's tiny breathalyzer is stored in an Altoid's box and the results can be sent to his Android phone. The key component is the IOIO board, which enables the Android to receive data from eternal sensors.
Slideshow: Top Medical Tech Engineering Innovations
Electronic News & Comment 3/30/2012 21 comments Bionic limbs, innovative infusion systems, and transcranial doppler brain scanners are just some of the innovations engineers are bringing to the exploding medical design arena.
Fitting the Fan Into a Wrong-Size Hole
Sherlock Ohms 3/14/2012 18 comments Trying to fit a a too-large fan into a too-small wall mount can be a problem. If you can't make the wall hole larger, you have to make the fan smaller.
Understanding Overload Failures
Guest Blogs 3/23/2012 17 comments Avoiding overload failures is a matter of understanding the forces that act on a part and the properties of the material from which it is made. Things break, but they don't necessarily have to.
Bioplastics Recycling Options Expand
Engineering Materials 3/23/2012 17 comments Although bioplastics are still a small part of the plastic waste stream, some manufacturers are talking to recyclers to develop recycling processes for their products.
High Voltage Amps Up the Automobile
Captain Hybrid 3/20/2012 15 comments Engineers need a new breed of wires, interconnects, and other electronic components to handle the bigger loads of electrified vehicles.
Model-Based Design Driven by Embedded Systems
CAD/CAM Corner 3/9/2012 15 comments Driven by the rise of embedded systems, companies are turning to model-based design approaches to facilitate the development of increasingly complex products.
Tiny Camera Sees Nonvisible Spectra
Engineering Materials 3/16/2012 14 comments A camera chip combining hyperspectral sensing with a machine-vision-grade image sensor will help incorporate spectroscopy into industrial vision applications.
SolidWorks Looks Beyond PLM
CAD/CAM Corner 3/1/2012 14 comments Positioning 3D data as the universal language, Dassault/SolidWorks kicked off SolidWorks World 2012 with a vision for collaborative innovation.
Apple’s Siri Springs to Life in 3D
CAD/CAM Corner 3/8/2012 14 comments Shapeways’ contest to visualize Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant in the iPhone 4S, shows just how comfortable the general public is getting with 3D printing technology.
Case of the Skewed Chips
Sherlock Ohms 3/6/2012 13 comments The automation was working within specs for chip placement, but it wasn't working as well as it should. A step-by-step look revealed the flaw.
Slideshow: More Best of Gadget Freak
Gadget Freak 3/9/2012 11 comments Here's a slideshow with links to our best homebrew engineering projects, drawn from the Design News Gadget Freak section.
As energy efficiency becomes more and more a concern for makers of electronics devices, researchers are coming up with new ways to harvest energy from sound vibration, footsteps, and even electromagnetic fields in the air.
The government wants to study your brain, and DARPA wants to use similar information to give robots true autonomy beyond any artificial intelligence developed to date. Sound like science fiction? It's not.
From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 3
Early in my career, I worked as a draftsman and remember the days of drawing on vellum with numbered pencils and Mylar with plastic lead. This was a fun experience in the sense that I ...
I've been using workstations for more than 10 years and love finding ways to get more performance from my system. With demanding professional applications that require more power each ...
A lasting memory from my first job as an engineer in an auto assembly plant is standing on hard concrete at six in the morning, vending-machine coffee clutched in hand, listening to ...
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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