EVs Second to Natural Gas for Fiat Blog 5/25/2012 5 comments Almost every automaker has had to 'pick a side' when it comes to alternative fuel options and ways to divest from a reliance on gasoline. Fiat is looking to back compressed natural gas or liquid propane as an interim solution.
Engineering, Science & Math in a Water Bottle Mechatronics Zone 5/25/2012 8 comments Designing and filling a new type of water bottle might take less engineering work, but the description will help kids understand how science, math, and engineering influence their lives even through things that seem mundane.
Robots Cut Composite Repair Costs in Half Engineering Materials 5/17/2012 25 comments A major advance in repairing composite structures combining robots and lasers bodes well for commercial aircraft such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350XWB, which contain composites in large proportions of their structures.
Freescale's Wireless Robot Teaches Sensor Programming Mechatronics Zone 5/8/2012 17 comments Freescale Semiconductor's two-legged robot (FSLBOT) and controller board lets engineers, students, and even hobbyists experiment with the robot's four servos and many sensors.
NASA Explores Humanoid Robot Design News 5/8/2012 14 comments NASA is exploring the potential for human robot design with Robonaut 2, a humanoid machine currently assisting astronauts on the International Space Station.
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.
March Madness in the World of MCUs Mechatronics Zone 3/28/2012 10 comments Here are introductions to five products that are of interest to engineers and product designers who use MCUs.
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.
How Many Calculus Classes Do Engineers Need? Mechatronics Zone 2/10/2012 37 comments Unlike his friends in engineering programs, blogger Jon Titus had little need for calculus except in a few of his college physical-chemistry labs and classes.
MEMS Is the Word Wolfe's Den 2/7/2012 12 comments Our Sensors in Design summit focuses on emerging applications.
Should Robots Look Like People or Machines? Wolfe's Den 2/1/2012 46 comments The unusually anthropomorphic automatons coming out of Japan raise this question. We asked participants in our Systems & Product Design Engineering and Automation & Control Engineering groups on LinkedIn what they think.
MCUs Cut Mechatronics Design Costs News 1/27/2012 10 comments In a wide-ranging half-hour discussion titled, Microchip engineer Keith Curtis addressed questions about the future of mechatronic control.
Slideshow: Top 5 Robotics Trends to Watch in 2012 News 1/23/2012 22 comments The most important robotics trends of this coming year will enable volume manufacturing and greater integration of robotics with machine vision and automated systems.
Design News Radio: Microcontrollers for Mechatronics Electronic News & Comment 1/19/2012 6 comments If you design mechatronic systems and want to learn more about using microcontrollers (MCUs) in your applications, listen to our Design News radio program on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.
What's the Noise in Signal-to-Noise Ratio? Mechatronics Zone 1/11/2012 7 comments A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) lets us express the relationship between signal and noise powers and between the root-mean-square (rms) values of signal and noise voltages.
Little Robots Forge Automated Welding Cells Engineering Materials 12/2/2011 17 comments Industrial robots that do welding and metal fabrication are getting both a lot smaller and a lot larger, depending on the size of the company using them and the type of welding configurations they need.
Laws of Physics Under Attack by Economics Guest Blogs 12/2/2011 60 comments Investment in STEM programs at all levels is a stated national priority. But this vital education and economic policy objective has slammed into an economic headwind that apparently makes rational budgeting a political impossibility.
Keep Your Eye on Donut Opportunities Mechatronics Zone 11/22/2011 7 comments Our mechantronics blogger opines on entrepreneurs who fall lose sight of the overall problem and fix their vision on something unimportant.
Industrial Distributors Face Integration Challenge Blog 11/8/2011 9 comments Distributors in the industrial, automation, and mechanical engineering sectors are having to adapt to changing requirements among customers as engineers try to differentiate their designs through performance boosts, faster manufacturing cycles, and the need for easier maintenance.
Downsized MEMS Aim at Lab-on-a-Chip News 11/7/2011 2 comments A new glass etching technique could lead to better microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) systems and faster, more reliable optical micro-gyroscopes and other apps.
Would You Buy a Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt? Wolfe's Den 11/2/2011 52 comments We asked members of Design News's Systems & Product Design Engineering group on LinkedIn whether they're ready to embrace electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf.
Almost every automaker has had to 'pick a side' when it comes to alternative fuel options and ways to divest from a reliance on gasoline. Fiat is looking to back compressed natural gas or liquid propane as an interim solution.
Designing and filling a new type of water bottle might take less engineering work, but the description will help kids understand how science, math, and engineering influence their lives even through things that seem mundane.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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