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"Smart" Prosthetic Limb Earns Top UK Engineering Award
The Linx uses a network of sensors across both the knee and foot that act like human nerves, continuously collecting data on the user, activity, environment and terrain.
Forensic Engineers: Sleuthing Their Way to the Truth
Forensic engineers investigate the causes behind failures, often leading to better design and testing future materials, products and structures.
Nondestructive Examination Tools: An Introduction
NDE methods play an integral role in the power generation industry, as well as in aerospace, automotive, chemicals, defense and petrochemical.
Engineers' Allegiances to Organization and Profession Need Not Conflict, Study Finds
Innovative people are more committed to their organizations, and less to their professions, when those organizations do well and the innovators know their work contributes to that success.
Imaging System Combines Two Modalities with Portability
Hybrid molecular imaging system is also portable.
Negative Group Dynamics Turn Women off Engineering
About 20% of undergraduate engineering degrees are awarded to women, but only 13% of the engineering workforce is female.
Self-Driving Bus Taps Power of IBM Watson
Olli utilizes the computing capability of IBM Watson Internet of Things to analyze and learn from high volumes of transportation data produced by more than 30 embedded sensors.
Ultra-thin Solar Cells Could Power Wearable Electronics
Your next fitness tracker, smart glasses or other wearable device could be powered by the sun.
Ethernet-based Control Technology Drives Development of Flexible Robotic Systems
EtherCat high-speed real-time networks provide high speed update rates and precise synchronization of all network devices.
Ropeless Elevator Could Move Horizontally and Vertically
The technology could provide quicker, more convenient transiting throughout urban buildings while opening up such structures to greater complexity of shape and design.
Demand for Vacuum Pumps Increasing
Three emerging trends drive the increased need for vacuum pumps globally: the semiconductor industry, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, and high-tech applications.
Lens-Free Microscope Could Be Used for Point-of-Care Diagnosis
In recent years, research has focused on developing microscopes without optical lenses or objectives that could offer unprecedented field of view while maintaining fair sensitivity and resolution.
Industrial Heaters: How They Work and How to Specify Them
Industrial heaters are used to covert energy from a fuel or energy source to thermal energy in a system, process stream or closed environment.
Exoskeleton Aids Children’s Mobility
A scaled-down exoskeleton gives mobility to children with spinal muscular atrophy.
Bricks Made with Cigarette Butts May Be Cheaper, Better Insulators
Mohajerani’s team discovered that adding cigarette butts can cut the energy needed to fire bricks by up to 58%.
Software Converts I/O Devices into Controllers
Browser-based software may allow engineers to add control functionality on input/output devices.
Collaboration Tool May Aid Product Design
Software creates an interface between mechanical and electrical MCAN and ECAD programs and PLC programming.
Engineering Is Hot: Here Are Some of the New Schools, Degrees and Expansions!
Universities across the U.S. are responding to growth in engineering school enrollment by expanding their facilities, adding departments and degrees and even launching entirely new schools of engineering.
Prototyping System Allows Design Revisions During 3D Printing
The On-the-Fly-Print system provides a “low-fidelity sketch” of the finished product, allowing the designer to redraw it as it develops.
The Need for Project Quality Management
The cost can be significant if no quality management program exists.