Blog Slideshow: Robots Creeping & Crawling Into New Territory Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/25/2012 8 A major area of robot research and development comes under the category of biomimetics, or biomimicry, which looks to nature for inspiration. Some robots resemble different kinds of ...
Blog EVs Second to Natural Gas for Fiat Sylvie Barak, West Coast Online Reporter, EETimes5/25/2012 5 Though not the flashiest Italian car manufacturer, the automotive firm Fiat has long been a staple of the country's industrial sector, providing vehicles to a wider mass market than ...
News Sensors Determine Effects of Explosions on Military Personnel Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/25/2012 4 The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is testing a gauge that can determine the effects of explosions on soldiers in the field, even if their apparent injuries do not ...
News Indy Aerodynamics the Difference Between Victory & Defeat Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test5/24/2012 27 When packs of drivers jockey for position on the speedway at Sunday's Indianapolis 500, a select group of engineers will be thinking, not about engines and tires, but about the ...
Sherlock Ohms Batteries' Chargers Require a Little Muscle Ken Moffett 5/24/2012 29 I worked in a biomedical equipment service department for a large university hospital, where a new building had just been finished, and all nursing units were moved in. Shortly ...
Wolfe's Den Engineers Are Happy in Role as Non-Managers Alexander Wolfe, Content Director5/24/2012 11 If you've remained a technical contributor, eschewing the climb up the corporate ladder, are you happy with your decision? That's the question we posed this month to members of our ...
News Sensor Monitors Patients' Health in the Cloud Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/24/2012 8 A UK-based startup has designed a new device that connects to a cloud-based system to allow a patient's condition to be monitored wirelessly by clinicians even when they are not in ...
Blog Video: Engineering Ferrari Sylvie Barak, West Coast Online Reporter, EETimes5/23/2012 23 Nothing but pasta could possibly be more representative of Italian sumptuousness than Ferrari, the sexy luxury race car brand that made its debut in 1947 with the 125S produced in ...
News Boeing's Engine Fan Upgrade Maximizes Efficiency Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/23/2012 5 Boeing continues to tweak the design of its 737 Max to add fuel efficiency to the next-generation jetliner with a change in the size of fan on the plane's CFM LEAP-1B engine.
Design News 2011 Salary Survey: Best News in Years 8/10/2011 6 The results of our annual salary survey show solid improvements in pay, as well as overall satisfaction with the engineering profession, despite rising stress levels and a still-tight economy.
New Breed of Lithium Batteries 7/20/2011 14 Higher capacities are enabling cylindrical, prismatic, and flat lithium batteries to move into medical instruments, power tools, and computing applications.
Lunar Crane Design 6/3/2011 18 Designing a robotic tool changer for use on the moon not only means dealing with the vacuum of space and moon dust, but also the changing scope of requirements for the device.
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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