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Tech recruiting firm uses face-scanning algorithm to make hiring decisions
Some U.S. companies are reportedly using artificial intelligence (AI)-based face scanning algorithms to make hiring decisions.
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.
AI-based facial recognition tool can detect confusion, nervousness
Fujitsu Laboratories, in collaboration with researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based facial recognition technology capable of detecting more subtle emotions, such as confusion and nervousness, with improved accuracy.
Female African refugees learn to code for future success
The idea of teaching refugee girls to code has taken hold for two common reasons: increase the number of women, especially minority women, in STEM fields, and give these women the skills to get good jobs.
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.
Greenpeace challenges popular solutions for reducing plastic pollution
A recent report from Greenpeace concludes that some of the most popular solutions for curbing plastics pollution are, in fact, not solutions at all and actually contribute to the growing problem.
GenCell’s IoT Remote Manager aims to optimize operational intelligence
The enhanced GenCell IoT Remote Manager platform offers a powerful and flexible environment for developing and managing advanced IoT and M2M applications to enable constant automated monitoring and to effectively track and manage complex and dispersed power infrastructures.
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 AI intelligently selects music based on listener mood
The system, which was developed to challenge current music streaming services, operates on a network of feedback loops.
Watch: Episode 8 of Dr. Capacitor
This episode follows this summer’s release of Episode 7, and includes information about soldering, PCB cleaning and various types of capacitors.
Fatal limo crashes highlight design and regulatory flaws, NTSB says
Despite severe damage to the vehicle’s front end and intrusion into the passenger compartment, the rear portion of the limousine remained relatively intact, retaining survival space. The driver and 17 passengers died in the crash.
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.
Louisiana plans for a future in which the entire state is a flood risk
The state said that risks will continue to escalate in a warming world, where the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones and severe thunderstorms are anticipated to increase.
A washing machine filter that dissolves plastic microfibers
A new 3D printed filter created by researchers from the University of Exeter in the U.K. can degrade and dissolve the plastic microfibers that discharge from clothing while in the washing machine.
A quiz for future engineers
Students aged 7-19 who may be engineers in the making are invited to take the Meet the Future You quiz to examine different engineering career options.
Gas line project was 'done wrong' and led to disaster
The NTSB faulted Columbia Gas of Massachusetts for "deficiencies in management and oversight" that led to overpressurization of a natural gas distribution system.
Amazon orders 100,000 electric vehicles from this Michigan startup
The first vans could be in service in 2021, with prototypes arriving perhaps as soon as 2020. The full deployment is expected by 2024.
Watch: Where to park when you go to the mall
In their paper, the researchers mapped three simple parking strategies onto an idealized, single row parking lot. Their solution may surprise you.
In conversation: A framework for designing for disruptive technologies
In this final part of our discussion series, Massoud Amin addresses engineering design innovation in a time of rapid technological change.
Chicago will test alternatives to open trench pipe replacement
The pilots will investigate using pipe lining technologies to rehabilitate water mains and private drains instead of open trench replacement.