February 8, 2007

Women have earned more than half the bachelor's degrees in science and engineering since 2000.

Carnegie Mellon University international engineering and environmental policy expert M. Granger Morgan is challenging U.S. federal and state officials to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions he says fuel global warming.

Scientists and engineers who are on the prowl for the lasting and inexpensive adhesives have explored both man-made and natural substances as a solution.

The motion control industry is undergoing a period of worldwide consolidation and restructuring becuase more motion and control functions are being used in electronics and software.

Potential customers of rapid part maker Protomold Co., Maple Plain, Minn., can now go online to rotate and zoom in on 3D models of their parts.

Knowing how to write well is a skill almost every business person needs.

NetTansor, a compact mobile robot designed for families and hobbyists, comes in a kit that features an onboard camera, wireless network connection, intelligent vision system, and PC software.

OC Robotics in the U.K., has built and tested a snake-arm robot capable of sealing, swaging, and inspecting the inside of hard-to-reach airplane structures.

Intuitive design means something different to practically every industrial designer.

Aberdeen researchers recently discovered that 3D CAD can cut approximately $50,000 and 90 days from development budgets and timelines.

A process akin to close-range induction that takes place in a transformer could potentially transfer energy from one end of a room to the other, claim researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Officials examining recent cases of E. coli infections linked the pathogen to contaminated green onions, lettuce, and other foods.

Since the discovery of the fuel cell in 1838 by German Scientist Christian Friedrich Schönbein, the principle of it has come a long way.

Flux-vector drives from Yaskawa Electric America Inc., Waukegan, Ill., go in highly accurate, self-cooling gear dynamometers used to test differentials for NASCAR Nextel Cup cars.

RTD stands for resistance-temperature device or detector.

The Kent State shootings (1970), in which the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of student-protesters, killing four and wounding nine, brought about many of the crowd control changes that are used by the military and the police today.

Certain oxides of copper called cuprates doped with small amounts of other elements become superconducting at temperatures to 134°K, significantly warmer than the near-absolute-zero temperature of liquid helium needed to chill down other superconductor types.

Software helped show that runner and gate locations were to blame for difficulties with a poorly performing mold.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has awarded supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., Seattle, $250 million for a computer based on what the company calls Adaptive Supercomputing.

With cordless phones, wireless internet, and cell phones, the idea of wireless power is not a novel one.