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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.
Hardware Review
How to manipulate 3D almost anywhere
Scanning for Ideas: Adding sensors to gearboxes
Engineers at alpha gear drives Inc., Bartlett, Ill. (alphagear.com), have applied an old principle, feedback control, to a traditional piece of hardware, the gearbox, to come up with the alphaIQ gearbox.
Scanning for Ideas: Throwing gutter balls? Now bowlers can’t blame it on the lane
The U.S. Bowling Congress wanted a way to measure friction or, more exactly, the coefficient of friction, on bowling lanes to make sure the lanes in tournaments met its standards and were uniform over their entire surface.
Scanning for Ideas: Power drawbar holds tool despite loss of hydraulics
Power Ott Jakob drawbars from Advanced Machine & Engineering, Rockford, Ill. (ame.com), use hydraulics in a modular system to hold cutting tools securely in place.
Scanning for Ideas: Shaft collar with adjustable clamping
EasyLock shaft collars from
Amacoil Inc., Aston, Pa., (amacoil.com) can exert 90 to 1,124 lb of holding force on case-hardened shafts (Rockwell 55 or higher) using a flat metal ring canted at an angle along the shaft.
“Dad, Can I Take the Car for a Swim?”
If you love fresh seafood and own a wet suit, the
sQuba could be the perfect car for you.
Faster Programming for Pavement Pounder
HydraForce Inc. in Lincolnshire, Ill., says
software from Caterpillar OEM Solutions,
Peoria, Ill., helped it program the electrohydraulics
controls for the Multi-hammer
Processor.
Speedy Leadscrew Lets Robotic Assistant Prep Lab Samples Fast
Screw-driven linear slides let Deena, a robot, quickly prepare samples to be tested for mercury and other metals.
Easy Flow Polymer Steers a Winning Course
Steering-angle sensors from Bosch in Germany provide information about the position of the steering wheel for the electronic stability programs that help keep vehicles steerable during skids.
All Quiet on the . . . Motocross track?
Remember when motocross was a loud, dirty sport?
Assault and Batteries
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories must hate batteries: They heat them to extreme temperatures, overcharge them, drive nails into them, and generally do whatever they can to destroy them.
Software Calms Machine Jitters
Electronic commands passed from machine to machine over data networks drive many modern production lines.
Will Hybrids Heat Up the Grid?
The growing number of plug-in hybrid electric cars and trucks may or may not require new electrical plants in the U.S., depending on when they’re charged.
Looking Back
10 YEARS AGO —
MAY 7, 1998
Virtual development for
aircraft: Lockheed Martin
will perfect the Joint Strike
Fighter and other advanced aircraft
with the help of visualization
software from Engineering
Automation Inc.
World Spends Over $100 Billion on Materialhandling Equipment
The global market for materialhandling
equipment will reach
$104 billion by 2010, according to a
report by market researcher Global Industry Analysts Inc.
Vantage Point: Want a Higher Standard of Living? Encourage Others to Attend School.
There is a lot of handwringing in the press these days about the need for an educated workforce.
Plastics Maker Opens New Korean Line
Sabic Innovative Plastics, Pittsfield,
Mass., has opened a major production
line at its Chung-Ju, Korea facility.
“Just One Word, Won . . . Bicycles.”
With projected annual growth of
about 5.3% for the 2001-2010 period,
the world bicycles market could
surpass $61 billion by 2010, according
to a report by Global Industry
Analysts Inc.