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High-Tech Jobs Slowing But Still Growing
The U.S. gained 91,400 high-tech jobs last year, bringing the total to 5.9 million, according to a report by AeA, a high-tech trade association.

Careers: Report Shows Engineering Jobs on the Decline
During the second half of the 20th century, strong demand in the U.S. for trained science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals fueled significant growth across all of science and its allied fields.

Show Notes COFES 2008: From Quantifying Innovation, to a New RP Format, and More
IT guys, programmers, industry analysts, visionary entrepreneurs, software company CEOs, and on-the-job engineers filled the Scottsdale Plaza Resort in Arizona for the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software.

PM2008 World Congress
June 8-12 — The 2008 World Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials (PM2008 World Congress) attracts powder metallurgists and industry leaders from more than 40 countries.

What’s the Best Way to Capture Shape Data?
Scanning technology, hardware, and software have advanced such that more and more firms can make use of digital representations of physical objects in production workflows.

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Leland Teschler's Editorial: One Less Conspiracy
Readers of a certain age will probably recall hearing tales of a supposed conspiracy among oil companies and automakers.

Military Develops Electric Slingshot
The Navy’s goal of replacing gunpowder with electricity got one step closer when it successfully test-fired its latest rail gun.

Intellectual Property: Should you patent globally?
It is long past the time when inventors only needed to worry about protecting their ideas in the U.S. Global patent protection is a must.

The less-is-more approach to six-axis robot design
Simple cable systems get the most out of robots.

How to Apply Direct-Drive Linear Servomotors
A novel direct-drive linear servomotor with only one moving part needs special design considerations.

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New Product: Microstepping driver/controller
The R256-RO has step resolutions from 2× to 256× and operates from 12 to 40 Vdc with phase currents from 0.1 to 2.0-A peak.

New Product: NEMA-34 Servomotor
The QCI-A34L-1 only needs 4.5 A, so a single cable supplies motor and encoder signals.

New Product: Curved-motion slideway
The RVF Gonio Way family of curved slideways is a low-friction, nonrecirculating curved motion bearing that uses precision cross rollers.

New Product: Rolled-steel electric motors
A family of 3Φ motors have rolled-steel bodies and cast-iron endbells are designed for general industrial use.

New Product: Digital position controller
EPOS2 is a digital positioning controller designed to control brush and brushless dc motors with an encoder.

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The Machine Design Tech Insider - March 20, 2008
Quieter Ride for Long-Haul Truckers - Here Comes the $2,500 Car - Recycling carbon dioxide into fuel - Armed robots assist soldiers in Iraq

Packaging Monthly - January 2008
What's new in sustainable packaging - Puttin' on the glitz - Industrial vision for cylindrical-container inspection

Fastening & Joining Monthly - January 2008
Building a tug-of-war machine - Safety standards aren't just guidelines - Joining Design and Assembly: Design For Assembly

The Machine Design Tech Insider - January 24, 2008
The I-35 Bridge: The truth is out there - Wind tunnel tests future space planes - An uplifting experience - Machine Design Editor Leland Teschler: Are CFLs really a bright idea?

Motion Monitor - January 24, 2008
Changing linear bearings saves $100,000 annually - The long and short of linear bushings - Field-oriented control for motors - Motor-mount encoders

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Design-2-Part Show (Santa Clara, CA)

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Technology Exhibitions Week 2008 (Milan)

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UGS Connection Americas 2008 Users Conference (Orlando, FL)

6/23/2008
European PLM Summit 2008 (Toulouse)

6/26/2008
Supercharging Products with Embedded RFID

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The Engineering “Extremist” Mindset
Do engineers have a “mindset” that makes them prone to become Islamic terrorists? Researchers in the U.K. think so. They analyzed Islamic radicals...

How Not to Make Engineering Appeal to Kids
Programs that introduce engineering to school children make headlines today. Project Lead the Way, Childhood Design & Engineering, and...

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