Engineers at Siemens Energy & Automation, Alpharetta, Ga. (www.sea.siemens.com/ motors), were given a clean sheet of paper and 140 years of experience building motors and told to design a line of efficient motors rugged enough to withstand the toughest industrial environments.
Anotherm substrate technology from TT Electronics IRC Advanced Film Div., Corpus Christi, Tex., lets high-brightness LEDs run at full power without thermal degradation.
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a method of detecting trace amounts of biological or chemical agents in seconds, much faster than traditional methods which can take up to a day.
RFID sensor tags from Savi Technology, Sunnyvale, Calif., monitor temperature and humidity of military and commercial shipments, including aircraft engines, ammunition, medical supplies, foodstuffs, and other perishables vulnerable to environmental conditions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a light detector that may lead to superfast broadband communications over interplanetary distances.
To help build customized endplates for prostheses, researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Research are using Math-ematica 5.2 software.
Trade shows are a bigger draw in Europe than in the U.S. Germany's recently completed Hannover Fair, for example, has had two consecutive banner years for attendance and exhibits.
