His may not be a household name, but the telecommunications world knows him well. Peter Delfyett, associate professor at the Center for Research and Education on Optics and Lasers (CREOL) at the University of Florida, invented the world's first commercially available modelocked semiconductor laser diode from a U.S. manufacturer. The laser releases the shortest and most powerful optical pulses ever generated from a semiconductor laser diode. He demonstrated a laser system using fast semiconductor laser and high power solid-state amplifiers as a medical imaging tool. This device can look inside the human body, non-invasively, without using ionizing radiation such as x-rays. He might be young, but his list of accomplishments is impressive. At 37, Delfyett won the Presidential Grant honoring young engineers. In 1993, he received the Black Engineer of the Year Award for Most Promising Engineer. Delfyett currently holds six patents. He also helps bring science to students of all ages. One of his projects includes a program to foster science experiments in the schools of Harlem.
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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.
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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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