Shockwaves Caused Crash of DARPA Hypersonic Aircraft
News 4/26/2012 15 comments Stronger than expected shockwaves on the outer shell of a hypersonic vehicle designed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) caused it to crash during a test flight last year.
Grid Storage a Key to Success of Renewables
News 4/25/2012 25 comments The market demand for grid storage of electrical power will skyrocket over the next five years, spiking from about $2.8 billion in 2012 to $113.5 billion in 2017, according to a new study.
Touchpads Put In-Car Entertainment at Your Fingertips
News 4/19/2012 26 comments A tiny touchpad in the armrest or steering wheel of future vehicles could enable drivers to more easily communicate with a car's audio, radio, phone, or navigation system, thus reducing driver distraction.
Plexiglas Gets Performance 'Rnewal'
Product News 4/19/2012 33 comments A crystal clear, transparent version of Plexiglas with superior strength has been formulated by combining Altuglas' polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) with NatureWorks' Ingeo biopolymer.
DARPA Wants Your Danger-Seeking Robot
News 4/18/2012 10 comments The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is offering $2 million to engineers who can design and build a robot to perform a series of disaster-response tasks that are too dangerous for humans.
Navy Eyes Unmanned Vehicles for Dangerous Missions
News 4/17/2012 14 comments Textron said the Common Unmanned Surface Vessel is the first designed from the ground up to be operated remotely to perform risky Navy activities without endangering lives.
Bio-Based Vinyls May Cost Less
News 4/17/2012 26 comments Vinyl compounds that incorporate bio-based plasticizers to make them flexible are equal or better in performance to their traditional counterparts based on petrochemicals, but may be more cost-effective.
Navy Developing Shipshape Titanium Welding
News 4/16/2012 11 comments Researchers are exploring the use of titanium in shipbuilding through a Navy-funded project that leverages a welding technique called "friction stir welding."
ABB Robot Package Simplifies Palletizing Automation
Product News 4/16/2012 17 comments A robot package that puts together hardware and software for automating high-speed, end-of-line palletizing is easier to program and integrate into existing lines.
Single-Camera 3D Microscope Eases Fatigue
Product News 4/13/2012 7 comments A single-lens 3D microscope is designed to improve the alignment of stereo images and save engineers from the discomfort typically associated with industrial inspection.
Boeing's 737 Max Targets Fuel Efficiency
News 4/13/2012 17 comments Boeing’s next-generation airliner has several design features geared toward fuel efficiency, including an extended tail cone and updates to flight and electronics controls.
iPad Waterproofed for Naval Ocean Optics Experiment
News 4/12/2012 7 comments A Navy scientist found a way to use an iPad under the ocean’s surface as part of a recent optics experiment conducted by the Naval Research Lab’s (NRL’s) Oceanography Division.
CAD Primed for Plastic Parts Design
News 4/11/2012 12 comments Recognizing their growing and more sophisticated use, SolidWorks and Autodesk have rounded out their portfolios with tools aimed at optimizing the design and manufacturing of plastic parts.
CFD Tool Adds Moving Object Simulation
News 4/10/2012 8 comments With its latest STAR-CCM+ v7 release, cd-Adapco joins the ranks of CAD and CAE vendors bolstering tighter connections between the two design tool platforms.
Renesas MCUs Promote Precise Motor Control
Product News 4/2/2012 10 comments Using a new 32-bit microcontroller family, engineers may now have a more cost-effective way of delivering precise power control to products ranging from washers and dryers to solar inverters.
Safety Standard Could Disrupt MEMS in Automotive
News 4/2/2012 5 comments A panel of experts agree it is likely to be mundane legal mandates, such as environmental pollution and safety, that will keep demand for automotive MEMS sensors climbing for the foreseeable future.
For 3D printing to make the jump from rapid prototyping to manufacturing, engineers will need to find easier ways to move products from their CAD screens to their printers.
Gigabit and PoE are two networking technologies moving ahead in tandem as industrial users power remote Ethernet devices such as IP security cameras at 1,000 Mbps over existing CAT5 cable.
New versions of BASF's Ecovio line are both compostable and designed for either injection molding or thermoforming. These combinations are becoming more common for the single-use bioplastics used in food service and food packaging applications, but are still not widely available.
From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 5
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 ...
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