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  • Tracked Crawler Carrier Rotates 360-Degrees

    A rubber track crawler carrier from Terramac boasts a rotational dumping body.

  • Powerful Nano-Engines Are Really ANTs

    Tiny actuating nano-transducers are capable of a force per unit-weight nearly 100 times higher than most motors or muscles.

  • Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Used to Boost Crop Growth

    If farmers continue to use the same amount of phosphorus that they're using now, the world's supply will be depleted in about 80 years.

  • Good Engineer or Good Project Manager? Cost Considerations

    Understanding if adequate funds have been allocated or if additional money is required that may hurt the project’s viability.

  • In Praise of Boiler Engineers

    The boiler engineer must be knowledgeable in several areas to include combustion, metallurgy, welding, chemistry, non-destructive inspection, budgeting and project management.

  • Wastewater Grease Traps May Damage Sewer Pipelines

    Microorganisms within these grease traps could produce long-chain fatty acids that can form hardened FOG deposits in downstream sewer pipes.

  • Analog Computer Chip Cuts Power Demand

    The university research findings could alter the computing and automation landscape.

  • Accelerating Development in Magnetic Levitation

    Magnets along the 2,100-foot-long track were cooled to -452 F using liquid helium.

  • Toyota to Use Biosynthetic Rubber in Engine, Drive System Hoses

    According to Toyota, biohydrin rubber is similar to conventional petroleum-based hydrin rubber in terms of quality and mass producibility, enabling large-scale use in commercial vehicles.

  • "Sea Snake" Robots to Perform Underwater Maintenance

    The idea is to let these robots perform inspection and light intervention jobs on the seabed, reducing the use of large and expensive vessels.

  • Study Shows Current Offshore Platforms Can Survive Sea Ice

    The researchers concluded that it appears the current standard of practice cited in ISO 19906 is appropriate for guiding the construction of offshore platforms to survive the demands from sea ice.

  • Smart Sensors Identify When Motors Needs Servicing

    The smart sensor provides information on parameters such as vibration, temperature and overload—and calculates power consumption.

  • Higher-Efficiency Perovskite-Silicon Solar Cell Developed

    With their outstanding photovoltaic properties, perovskite solar cells have become the focus of vigorous research for their potential to provide sustainable power generation.

  • Fish-Eye Lens Cuts Through the Dark

    Bomb-diffusing robots, laparoscopic surgeons and planet-seeking telescopes all need to resolve fine details through almost utter darkness.

  • Make the Most of Your Engineering Internship

    An internship can be a transforming experience, especially if you work hard to make the most of it.

  • Lens May Open the Terahertz Range

    A lens that can image in the terahertz range could be used to advance biomedical research as well as security imaging, among other applications.

  • Nanowire as a Basis for Rechargable Batteries

    400-year battery developed at UCIrvine

  • The Fast Lane to Medical Device Design

    Hardware-in-the-loop development approaches can reduce device lead times and costs up to 50%.

  • Looking to Geckos to Clean Works of Art

    What appears to be a plain plastic film is in fact non-sticky, elastic polymer.

  • Hatching Dissolvable Medical Electronics

    Researchers cracked some eggs to fabricate a functional biomaterial-based memristor.

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