SolidWorks Corp. is providing an online Engineering Design Challenge it says helps you gain insight and top tips for improving your products and your career.

As the official unemployment rate tops 10% in more than one quarter of all states, the hot topic of the day increasingly moves toward how to stimulate more hiring.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology develop a method to radiation-harden microchips.

Shock monitor tracks jolts and jiggles: Mini Shock, an electronic impact recorder from the French company, Sensorex, measures shocks and jolts and stores the 128 largest incidents, along with their date and time.

NIST researchers determine that faulty design was the likely cause of the collapse of the Dallas Cowboy’s practice facility during a windstorm.

Engineer Blair Gotell designed what he calls the Stack-a-Buoy for fisherman. Intended for use with lobster lines, the buoys are easy to store and transport because they can be stacked even while attached to a rope.

Automation Fair 2009 stresses energy management, plant-wide optimization, and better performance by global equipment manufacturers.