June 5, 2008

Solar Power Industries Inc., Belle Vernon, Pa., used FEA software for a combined transient heat-transfer and CFD analysis that let the company reshape the hot zone of its “minicaster” — a miniature version of a directional solidification furnace that casts silicon ingots used in solar cells.

For an active job seeker, a resume is one of the most important tools for getting your foot in the door.

The Malibu was voted 2008 North American Car of the Year and with good reason.

The E+ electric bike from Electric Motion Systems, Dulles, Va., has 19 different cycling modes, cruise control, and regenerative braking.

I don’t think Mr. Rapp’s suggestion, the Public Personal Mover (Letters, April 10), should be rejected out of hand. With slight modifications, his plan could answer your objections.

Through the Fluke Education Grant Program, 20 U.S. schools will receive Fluke 289 and Fluke 287 Logging Digital Multimeters — the company’s newest electrical and electronic test instruments.

For the past two decades high-tenacity fibers such as S-glass, Aramid, and ultrahighmolecular- weight-polyethylene (UHMWPE) have been the materials of choice for making lightweight armor.

Markable labels let surgical staffs know how many more times they can reuse a component in a solid-state laser from German equipment supplier Dornier MedTech.

10 YEARS AGO — JUNE 4, 1998 X-ray telescope counts down to liftoff:

The GSX line of linear actuators from Exlar Corp., Chanhassen, Minn. (exlar.com), can now carry an optional built-in force sensor.

An environmentalist, a motorhead, and a technophile walked into the Cobo Center.... Far from being a joke, this was the reality at the SAE 2008 World Congress in Detroit.

Engineers at Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed a faster, less-expensive method for decontaminating bioterrorist sites in the future.

During concept development, a design team should list potential visual-design cues that match with the intended design.

A high-impact nylon 66 (PA66) flows easily into intricate and multicavity parts such as fasteners and automotive engine cradle nests.

Crave a vehicle that looks cool on the outside, while being humongous on the inside?

When Tetsura Mori, a senior engineer for Yaskawa Electric Corp., coined the term “mechatronics” in 1969, most people had no idea what it was.

This golf cart may have a little more torque than the average golfer needs, but it shows the power of an electric motor with regenerative braking.

Radiation treatment to kill tumors can be tricky.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have recently launched a project to create a dynamic electronic surface that will let blind and visually impaired people “feel” mathematical graphics, diagrams, and other visuals displayed on computer screens, including pictures and maps.

Engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to get drugs that normally cannot be delivered through the skin to do just that.

One-third of all adults regularly taking prescribed medication forget to take their meds.

Delrin 400MTD acetal from DuPont, Wilmington, Del., is made with a proprietary metal filler and can be detected by most metal sensors used on food-processing conveyors, in the unlikely event of a part’s entry into the process stream.

Strain gages make up the fundamental sensing element for many different types of sensors including those for pressure, load, torque, and weight.

As robots, machine vision, RFID readers, and PLCs grow in number on the factory floor, so do the cables used to connect them.

Nylatron GS, a molybdenum-disulphide (MoS2) filled nylon, is now certified by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Dept. of Labor.

Laser diodes used to illuminate telecom fiberoptic cables keep getting smaller and smaller. But they still generate heat that needs to be removed.

For at least a decade, FEA has been guiding design decisions and helping companies avoid having to build and test several prototypes.

Efficient decision-making based on field data is always core for our work in engineering and architecture, inventory and asset management, and environmental science, so we must often collect high volumes of geospatial information.