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.
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.
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."
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.
Femtosecond Camera Sees Around Corners
Engineering Materials 4/5/2012 17 comments A video camera system sees beyond the line of sight using a femtosecond laser that bounces light off of walls and floors.
A new battery design, which replaces lithium with abundant and low-cost elemental sulfur, is still in its nascent stages but shows real promise for giving batteries more energy potential.
PTC will offer a virtual desktop environment for its Creo product design applications, potentially freeing engineers to run them from remote desktops on a variety of operating systems and mobile devices.
The push to achieving more intelligent, integrated manufacturing is putting a strong focus on networking and connectivity as key enabling technologies.
Now that solar and wind harvesting technologies are a thriving market, researchers are seeking other environmentally related energy sources for which they can create harvesting devices.
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 ...
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