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Lake Shore F71/F41 teslameters win R&D 100 Award
Lake Shore Cryotronics announced that the company’s F71 and F41 teslameters have been named 2019 R&D 100 Award winners in the Analytical/Test category.
U of Michigan to anchor a $300 million innovation center
The new university research facility could serve up to 1,000 graduate and senior-level undergraduate students in a range of high-tech innovation disciplines.
Here's Puerto Rico's 10-year, $20-billion electric grid plan
The plan is intended to rebuild damaged facilities to higher standards, increase the system's overall reliability and improve the quality of life for residents on the island, which is in its thirteenth year of economic recession.
Sempra advances LNG export goals with Mitsui MOU
The MOU includes Mitsui's potential purchase of one-third of the capacity of Cameron LNG Phase 2, as well as the potential offtake of around 1 Mtpa of LNG and equity participation in a future expansion of ECA LNG.
NYC's gateway airports get a $4.5 billion infrastructure infusion
The New York-New Jersey Port Authority board of commissioners approved plans to spend roughly $4.5 billion for improvements at its three airports in the New York City metropolitan area.
Composite-based bridge nears completion in Florida
The bridge is testing technologies that may address maintenance and longevity issue. It will be monitored in part by the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the University of Miami College of Engineering.
New tool offers broad insight into transportation options and impacts
The MEP metric offers a holistic measure of mobility, better enabling planners to quantify how certain choices positively or negatively affect factors such as traffic flow and air quality, among other things.
Pros and cons of battery and water-powered backup sump pumps
Flooding due to power outage or sump pump failure is preventable with a backup sump pump. What are the pros and cons of battery and water-powered backup pumps?
Lax procedures led to fatal crane collapse at Google work site
Errors included prematurely removing nearly all of the pins and sleeves that helped hold the crane together.
Watch: NTSB cites multiple errors in fatal Florida bridge collapse
Key factors included bridge design errors, inadequate peer review of the bridge design, poor engineering judgment and response to cracking and lack of redundancy in the bridge design.
Researchers build 3D-printed coral homes for fish
Placed in a fish aquarium among four 3D-printed artificial coral replicas and one coral skeleton of calcium carbonate, the damselfish did not indicate a preference for one habitat, nor did they prefer a material.
Denver airport names new contractors for terminal project
Phase I work primarily includes construction of airline ticketing pods in the center of the terminal, and also includes new restrooms and conveyances.
Blankets could protect structures from wildfires, study says
By testing different materials in the laboratory and using them to shield structures exposed to fires of increasing magnitude, the research found that blankets can protect structures from a wildfire attack.
Watch: 3D printing a bigger boat and a da Vinci bridge
A 25 ft, 5,000 pound boat was produced with what is reportedly the largest prototype polymer 3D printer.
Hunter Fan acquires Jan Fan to create 'one-stop shop'
Jan Fan’s high-quality, energy-efficient products will complement Hunter’s existing line of industrial high-volume low-speed and commercial ceiling fans.
Robots will repair faulty welds at this nuclear power plant
The repair pushes back the date of fuel loading at Flamanville Unit 3 to the end 2022 and raises the construction cost estimate by roughly $1.65 billion.
How does a pressure-compensated flow control valve work?
Pressure-compensated flow control valves are designed to provide a constant volume flow rate independent of the pressure drop across the valve.
Insight: The wind blows and the electric grid creaks
It's too early to declare the demise of the interconnected grid, but a case can be made for accelerating investments in small-scale generating units that are close to load centers and that operate within microgrids that can isolate themselves in advance of natural and man-made disasters.
This utility is eyeing more renewable energy and battery storage resources
The proposals were part of the utility's draft “preferred portfolio” for its 2019 Integrated Resource Plan.
2019 Pulse of Engineering Survey: Retirements, resource constraints and millennials rising
IEEE GlobalSpec’s fifth annual Pulse of Engineering survey asked nearly 2,000 respondents, drawn from both Engineering360 and IEEE Spectrum subscribers, to paint a picture of the engineering profession in 2019.