Welcome to 2013. Before we completely put the shackles on 2012, I thought you'd be interested in knowing which Design News articles garnered the most interest in 2012.
I'm judging interest using two different measuring sticks. First, you'll find the five most read articles of the year. (I'm assuming that, if you clicked on the article, you actually read it.) The second list is the five articles that drew the most comments. These are the pieces that generated reactions strong enough for readers to leave an observation.
It's nice to see readers interested in articles interested in issues that affect the environment, like global warming and hybrid cars. I'm expecting the environment and ways engineers and designers can improve energy efficiency in products as well as be more environmentally friendly in general to continue to be hot issues in 2013.
Richard, if we are going through the list it seems that Communication and Automobiles are more interested topics to our readers and environmental issues are the concerns, where most of them commented. I think this type of analysis will help you to plan which are the topics more interested to our community members.
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 disc magnet motors fit into the design trend of stepping up to closed loop performance while maintaining the cost advantage of stepper motor technology.
At the Design News webinar on June 27, learn all about aluminum extrusion: designing the right shape so it costs the least, is simplest to manufacture, and best fits the application's structural requirements.
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.
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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