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Among those of us who troop regularly through press events at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, 2012 will go down as the year automakers once again felt comfortable admitting...

Engineering career coach Joel Orr recently fielded this question in his online Q&A column: "I am a recent graduate and got my degree in mechanical engineering. My passion is to...

The general public has finally noticed something engineers have long accepted as a fact of life: College engineering courses are more difficult than those for liberal arts. Engineering-course difficulty...

Engineering working with flexible materials sometimes get flummoxed by the nonlinear behavior and bonding problems that can accompany design issues in this area. A new forum at www.fabricoforum.com...

Many Machine Design readers responded to our recent article on solid modeling that considers constraints from machining. Among the responses was this one: "After almost 45 years of...

Several vendors of CAD software have decided to do something about the high level of unemployment in this country. They have offered training in their software free of charge...

This February, NASA plans to launch NuSTAR (nuclear-spectroscopic telescope array) for a two-year mission exploring space using an advanced X-ray telescope. Here are some...

A recent entry in our blog area is getting a lot of attention: "A friend of mine is a science teacher in a 'Tech Program' at a community college in a nearby state. The program...

Research and development is a hot topic. The National Science Foundation says the U. S. accounts for about 33% of global R&D spending. In fact, the U. S. is the biggest R&D spender...

The packaging industry largely revolves around the packaging of food. With that in mind, it might be interesting to examine the recent trend toward hand-wringing over "food miles."...