Nothing against Paccar which makes diesel trucks, but I found just a touch of irony in that Gonzaga University’s first “green certified building,” a 29,000 square science center, is named after the maker of Peterbilt and Kenworth truck tractors (hardly green machines…). Paccar kicked in $2 million for the $8.5 million facility which will house “sophisticated laboratories dedicated to robotics, artificial vision, and transmission and distribution line engineering,” according to the press release. We all have to start somewhere.
Thanks to embedded electronics, medical devices are getting smaller and smarter than ever. Pacemakers and implantable defibrillators are now able to call physicians. MRIs, CT scanners, and ultrasound machines are gaining mobility. And the venerable Band-Aid may soon be able to detect illnesses ranging from fevers to heart arrhythmias. On February 21, join Design News senior editor Charles Murray for a wide-ranging discussion, "Embedded Angles for Medical Products," which will explore the latest developments in medical electronics. The discussion will examine advances in medical device technology and offer an inside look at the embedded electronics behind it.
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