Articles: Automotive
Near the small Michigan town of Holly (pop. 6300) an hour north of Detroit, the Magna Electronics complex has quietly become a goliath within the automotive sensor industry.
Articles: Materials
In the automotive industry, mass reduction and lightweight design is a continuing trend that does not show signs of declining. When examing where to reduce weight in...
Features: Medical
Attaining exceptional product design and performance is necessary to thrive in today’s competitive business environment. There are many variables to consider regarding application...
Briefs: Medical
A team of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering students at Rice University, calling itself Carpal Diem, has developed a testing suite to validate how well 3D-printed prosthetic hands transfer...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The presence of more than 1 billion sensor-rich smartphones and the intense interest surrounding the Internet of Things has drawn wide attention to all the potential and...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers at the Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab at Arizona State University have tested the ability of the human brain to control non-human behaviors,...
Videos: Materials
When the Wright Brothers first flew over 100 years ago, they used a twisting wing to stabilize their plane. As aircraft design became more heavy duty, that system became impossible and rigid...
Videos: Automotive
Exa offers a comprehensive aerodynamic, thermal management, aeroacoustic, and climate control simulation-driven design solutions for product engineering. With Exa, companies can...
Videos: Medical
Teleflex Medical OEM recently opened a Customer Solution Centre (CSC), in Limerick, Ireland. Teleflex Medical OEM has created an environment that enables higher levels of innovation...
Videos: Materials
Master Bond Supreme 45HTQ-4 is a toughened, silicon carbide filled epoxy with outstanding thermal stability and physical properties demonstrated in this video. Supreme 45HTQ-4 is very special in that it...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Martin Thuo, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University, and his research group are using materials expertise to study soft matter,...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A team of engineers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) say that a new form of 3D printing and...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
UPS, Atlanta, GA, announced that it is launching a distributed, on-demand manufacturing network that links its global logistics network with 3D printers at The UPS Store® in more...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturing Day™, which officially occurs on Oct. 7, is a celebration of modern manufacturing designed to amplify the voice of individual manufacturers and coordinate a collective chorus of manufacturers with common concerns and challenges. Companies can plan their events on any date and register their event on...
Technology Report: Software
What happens when the performance of your newly-developed vehicle exceeds the capabilities of the test equipment used to measure it? Ford Truck engineers faced that dilemma while...
News: Defense
Embraer's E-Jets E2 program took an important step forward with the recent completion of the maiden flight of the E190-E2 from its facility in São José dos Campos. The flight occurred just three...
News: Software
David Lentink, an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, has been studying birds in flight with an eye toward applying the tricks birds use to navigate changing conditions in...
Global Vehicles: RF & Microwave Electronics
“SEAT has been through hell, in a way," asserted Luca de Meo, who became chairman of the Spanish automaker, part of Volkswagen Group, late last year. But after it survived a lengthy...
Videos: Data Acquisition
This mosaic strip – extending across the hemisphere that faced NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 – now includes all of the highest-resolution images taken...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
NASA Commentator Lori Meggs at the Marshall Space Flight Center talks to NASA Ames Research Center's Chris Provencher about SPHERES - an International Space Station robotics experiment platform used for multiple...
Industry News: Medical
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News: RF & Microwave Electronics
As automakers add advanced driver-assist systems to conventional passenger vehicles, they are developing one path to the fully autonomous vehicle—but not the only one. So, the...
Global Vehicles: Automotive
Rarely does an automaker choose the world's most dangerous roads to introduce a new vehicle to the media. So Jaguar's recent launch of the all-new 2017 F-Pace sports crossover in the...
INSIDER: Materials
Researchers at Rice University have added superhydrophobic, or water-repelling, capabilities to its de-icer. The graphene-based spray passively prevents water from freezing above 7 degrees.