Electronic News & Comment LEDs at Heart of Cadillac CTS 'Signature' Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test5/22/2013 1 Using almost 200 light-emitting diodes in the front and back of the new 2014 CTS, Cadillac designers are showing how LEDs can change the character of a vehicle. "LEDs have helped us ...
Engineering Materials Slideshow: Composites Help Disintegrate Spacecraft Fuel Tanks Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/22/2013 0 Carbon fiber composites are nothing new in aerospace. They're being used increasingly in aircraft, satellite launchers, and spacecraft. What is new is their use in a satellite's ...
Blog Startup Aims to Build a Better Lithium-Ion Battery Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/22/2013 1 A number of research efforts are under way at the university level to use nanotechnology to improve the composition of lithium-ion batteries. Now one of these efforts at ...
Blog Optical Tweezers Grab Blood Cells Cabe Atwell, Contributing Editor, Design Hardware & Software5/22/2013 0 The technology for manipulating single molecules in the nano and micro scale has been around since the 1980s. Holographic or diffractive optical tweezers are continuous-wave micro ...
Blog Slideshow: The Greenest Cars of 2013 Rob Spiegel, Senior Editor, Automation & Control5/21/2013 8 Trying to determine the most environmentally friendly autos is like comparing apples and oranges. Highly efficient internal combustion engines are difficult to measure against ...
CAD/CAM Corner Video: Doodle3D Prints Designs From 2D Drawings Cabe Atwell, Contributing Editor, Design Hardware & Software5/21/2013 2 There's more fun coming our way on the 3D printing news front, as The Netherlands-based tech company FabLab Amersfoort has developed a new device that serves as a sketching tool for ...
Blog Researchers Improve Potential for Lithium-Air Batteries Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/21/2013 1 Researchers have been exploring how to improve lithium-based batteries to extend their use for electric vehicles and other applications. Now, according to an article on MIT's ...
Blog The Internet of Things' Impact on Medical Care Al Presher, Contributing Editor5/21/2013 5 Healthcare might seem to be an unlikely target application for the Internet of Things technology, but recent developments show small ways that big-data is going to make an impact on ...
Made by Monkeys Are the Power Windows Really the Problem? Donald Murphy 5/21/2013 6 While driving my late-model pickup truck, I pushed the button on my door handle to lower the passenger window to get a cross-breeze, but the window did not respond. This was ...
Sensors Help Shrink Medical Devices 5/13/2013 0 Miniaturization allows for the use of sensors in medical applications where they couldn’t previously be used.
Slideshow: Platinum Temperature Sensor Technology 5/6/2013 1 This article explores the inherent properties of platinum temperature sensors, the types of platinum RTD elements available, and typical applications.
M2M Gives Eyes & Ears to the Enterprise 4/12/2013 4 Just as mobile computing has transformed the lives of consumers, machine-to-machine telemetry is revolutionizing business operations in every field, from healthcare to manufacturing to transportation.
Fully Integrated Motion Controllers Power Mobile, Social Robots 4/5/2013 5 While advanced controllers have exponentially increased the number and kind of tasks industrial robots can accomplish, mobile robotics brings a new set of challenges to motion control that favors the compact, increasingly integrated motion control systems.
There’s No Excuse for Not Designing Virtually 4/3/2013 7 When design engineers want more than the default look and feel, software should be customizable and extensible, ensuring they can define appearance and behaviors.
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From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 3
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 ...
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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