We won the gold, as in the Eddie Gold from Folio magazine which covers the publishing industry. The Category was Best Online News Story and I blogged last week that we were a finalist against Time.com and Newsweek.com. Well, we walked away with the gold at a gala last night at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. That’ll make presenting Boeing 787 chief project engineer Tom Cogan with our 2007 Engineer of the Year award all the sweeter. That happens at 4 p.m. Wednesday in our booth (5263) at National Manufacturing Week. Come on by.
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.
Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but Plasti 2012 aimed to mold a different opinion of the material in people's minds.
The rare earth element market has become steadily more rational, and new sources coming online will continue to reduce costs. Still, it is unlikely that prices will drop to their former lows.
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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