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See Self-Healing Roads, A New Electric Delivery Vehicle and Self-Healing Tires
Are you ready to hit the road? This is another automotive edition of your Engineering360 news brief.
Nordex Launches 4MW Wind Turbine and Plans to Cut Costs
The company plans a new 4 MW turbine even as it outlines cost-cutting measures to respond to what it says is falling demand for wind turbines in Germany and other European markets.
Designer Furniture...Made from Cow Manure
Determining that the material could be shaped and styled for this purpose, product design student Sanelisiwe Mafa used the material to create fully recyclable stools and designer flower pots.
New Algorithm Helps Smartwatches Learn Your Every Move
While standard smartwatches are preprogrammed to detect specific moves likes those associated with running and yoga, scientists from the University of Sussex have developed an algorithm that will help smartwatches detect a variety of movements, all without having to be preprogrammed.
United Tech in $30b Deal for Rockwell Collins
UTC is expected to have global sales of approximately $67 billion to $68 billion following the transaction.
Electric Motor for Hybrid City Bus Use
The 650-volt electric motor drives the vehicle at low speeds when enough energy is available.
GE’s New Jet Engine is a Modern Engineering Marvel
The GE9X engine will power Boeing’s 777X aircraft, slated to enter service around 2020. It will feature a number of advanced technologies, including ceramic matrix composite components, carbon fiber fan blades, 3D-printed cobalt-chrome fuel nozzles and titanium-aluminide low-pressure airfoils.
The E-Axle Powertrain for Electric Vehicles
A new generation electric axle drive, or e-axle, combines three powertrain components into one unit.
Nordex Enters the 4 MW Wind Class
The N149/4.0-4.5 turbine is designed specifically for light-wind regions.
Can You Solve This Million-dollar Chess Puzzle?
Researchers at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, are seeking a solution to the Queen’s Puzzle, first posed in 1850.
Researchers Detect Repeating Fast Radio Bursts From Three Billion Light Years Away
Breakthrough Listen—a program seeking intelligent extraterrestrial communications—has detected 15 fast radio bursts coming from a dwarf galaxy some three billion light years from Earth.
Researchers Find New Ways to Bring Sports Venues to Achieve Zero Waste
Officials at college sporting venues are leading the effort toward zero-waste events at their facilities.
Water Calculation Tool for the Textile Sector
The self-assessment tool can assist textile companies evaluate the water footprint in manufacturing processes.
Honeycomb of Solar Cells Saves Space and Works in Harsh Conditions
A new generation of advanced photovoltaics could be the result of packing tiny solar cells together, like the microlenses in the compound eye of an insect, according to a group of Stanford University scientists.
Chemical Additives: Applications and Analytical Methods
Specialty chemicals, or chemical additives, are rapidly becoming a trillion dollar industry and are used in a wide range of industrial sectors, including energy, cosmetics, detergents, food, materials, textiles and pharmaceuticals.
Obesity Control: Drug-Carrying Nanoparticles Turn Fat Cells Brown
Want to lose weight? Just convert your white fat cells into brown ones.
CH2M Loses Boston Transit Contract
The decision was not related to CH2M’s performance, according to published reports, but is based on its pending acquisition by Jacobs Engineering Group.
Pay...with Your Face
Yum China, operator of such brands as KFC in China, has joined forces with mobile payments firm Alipay to bring the world’s first facial recognition payment system to China.
ISA Partners with Siemens to Advance Cybersecurity Standards
The organizations say they will share expertise in protecting automation environments based on a consensus-based series of industrial cybersecurity standards.
Beer and Facial Recgonition Tech Prove to be Undoing of 25 Suspects Nabbed at Beer Fest
Using facial recognition technology, law enforcement officials nabbed 25 people attending an annual beer festival in China wanted in connection with crimes in that country.