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Issue date: January 13, 2003

Features
Safe at Any Speed
To maintain high thrills and high chills, ride engineers are sharing secrets of good design

Dazzling Plastics, Difficult Engineering
Ugly just does not sell anymore. Need proof? Just take a walk through any of the big-box retailers, where even the most mundane household products have gotten a dash of style.


Simple. Not Stupid.
Smart sensors are too complicated for many applications. Plug-and-play sensors, although simpler, offer some of the same advantages.



Departments


Ask The Search Engineer
Ask The Search Engineer


BMOC
Charging Ahead


Buzz
Chipmaker's Sample Screw-up

Help wanted at GM—with resumes

No more plain-vanilla PLM

Nuts about a fastener


Expo
Softer Than Rubber, Thinner Than Foam

Electronics

Fastening/Joining/Assembly

Fluid Power

Materials

Motion Control/Power Transmission

Software/Hardware


Flash
Motion Controllers

New and notable Product Design


Mail
Readers Sound Off


Measurements in the Design Flow
Virtual Instruments Find Their Niche


Slant
An Ogle at Google


The Next Generation
Engineering Students You'd Love to Hire



Columns


Calamities
The Case of the Soggy Furs


Designers Corner
Small targets, long range


Gadget Freak
Steve Often Wondered What It Was Like to Be a Fish


My View
The real crash test dummies


Rant
The Ethernet Monster


Web Log
Wanted: leaders


Engineering News


Better to be safe

Drive my car

Phone home-or elsewhere

Silicon Power Device Challenges Relays

Techies Discover eBay

Best fluid power sites

Rotary Solenoid Cuts Size, Adds Speed to Pneumatic Butterfly Valves

Servopneumatics Finding its Niche, Bit by Bit

Tech Tips

The sound of silence

Disney Reduces the Wait

Machine tools stay sluggish

Night vision loses focus

Size does matter

Sorry, We Can't Fill Your Order

Can Aluminum Composites be Cost-effective?

Die casting design aid now on-line

Powder metal conversions made easy

Real-time Drivers Save Energy in Energy Production

Rewind motors with no penalty

Sandia, Boeing team up

Servo Use To Grow In Packaging Machines

Size does matter

Thin But Strong: Bearing Pulls More Than Weight

When Plastic Meets Rubber, You Get Big Savings

Consultants' Role in CAD Grows

Disney Bound

Microsoft's Nod Nudges Collaboration

PDM grows PDQ

Term Limits

Top Engineering Websites


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