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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Re-entry Vehicle Shape for Enhanced Performance
A vehicle entering the atmosphere of a planet will do so at hypersonic speeds and will need to decelerate and maneuver through that atmosphere while protecting its payload from excessive heating. As a consequence, the vehicle shape must be designed to provide optimal aerodynamic lift and drag...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Until the time of this reporting, when a space vehicle required a reference signal for inertial pointing, the choices were a signal beacon from an Earth location, the Earth...
Briefs: Software
Data Acquisition and Processing Software — DAPS
DAPS was designed to support the DAWN-AIR project participating in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) hurricane campaign. It controls the data acquisition system consisting of a scanner that directs the lidar beam, an inertial navigation system/GPS (INS/GPS) unit for monitoring...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Debris & Ice Mapping Analysis Tool — Database
The Debris & ICE Mapping Analysis Tool (DIMAT) system is a Web-based system that supports communication, data integration, data sharing, and problem definition/resolution through use of an integrated presentation framework for ice and debris description and analysis. It provides an integrated...
Briefs: Information Technology
Data Fusion for Global Estimation of Forest Characteristics From Sparse Lidar Data
This lidar data fusion approach is based on associating samples from sparse lidar data with groups of region objects determined by a unique image segmentation approach, HSeg (Hierar - chical Segmentation). This segmentation approach, which was previously developed by...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
The study of driver behavior can provide a wealth of information that can be useful in the design of automobiles including active safety features and functions. There...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
For aircraft system certification, a huge amount of testing is required to guarantee safe, robust, and error-free behavior under all operating and environmental conditions. Typically, these tests on the...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A gravity-independent PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cell stack has been developed that will operate at high-pressure H2 and O2 conditions with the...
INSIDER: Materials
A Detroit-area based consortium of 60 companies, nonprofits, and universities and a Chicago-based consortium of 73 companies, nonprofits, and universities are partnering with the federal...
Videos: Test & Measurement
NASA Langley Research Center researchers are attempting to develop a carbon dioxide detection sensor, one of several proposed science instruments for the Active Sensing of Carbon...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The U.S. Army is nearing completion on a project to eliminate its dependency on foreign countries for a critical energetic component in artillery and mortar ammunition, officials...
INSIDER: Defense
It sounds like the ultimate recycling project. The Naval Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, through its INTOP Program, have taken a 96,000-pound piece of...
Videos: RF & Microwave Electronics
Gesture control for electronics could become an alternative to touchscreens and sensing technologies that consume a lot of power and only work when users can see their...
INSIDER: Medical
3D Printing Creates Implantable Heart Device
Using an inexpensive 3D printer, biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, say that they have developed a custom-fitted, implantable device with embedded sensors that could treat cardiac disorders.
INSIDER: Imaging
Twisting Sound to Improve Ultrasound Imaging
A team of scientists from Nanjing University in China and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is exploring the use of metamaterials to create devices that manipulate sound in versatile and unprecedented ways. This was reported in the journal, Applied Physics Letters.
Videos: Motion Control
Researchers Vytas SunSpiral and Adrian Agogino from NASA's Ames Research Center are developing a tensegrity-based lander and planetary exploration robot. Tensegrity...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In 2013, more than 90% of Honda and Acura automobiles sold in the U.S. were made in North America. With the recent start of production at a new plant in Celaya,...
News: Automotive
Technical sessions focused on interiors at the SAE 2014 World Congress span the designated technology areas, including electronics, materials, and safety/testing....
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
Increasing supplies of low-cost, readily available natural gas, along with expanding refueling infrastructure and increasingly strict vehicle emissions...
News: Electronics & Computers
The “glass cockpit” concept transitioned very rapidly in commercial aviation, replacing familiar analog cockpit layouts to embrace the adaptability of multi-functioning displays and the flexibility to...
News: Defense
The ability to interface real-time instrumentation data from remote hardware to local data analysis systems is important in the space industry. NASA, for example,...
News: RF & Microwave Electronics
Driver Distraction and Inattention: Advances in Research and Countermeasures, Vol. 1 published by SAE International and Ashgate Publishing Co. explores the definition and meaning of driver distraction...
News: Software
President Barack Obama on Feb. 25 announced that the creation of two “manufacturing innovation hubs” in which the public and private sectors will work...
INSIDER: Imaging
Unique Optical Fibers Transmit High-Resolution Images
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee first discovered a new way to propagate multiple beams of light through a single strand of optical fiber. Now, they say that their unique fiber architecture can transmit images of comparable or better quality than commercial endoscopy imaging...
Videos: Energy
Computer simulations by Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson have shown that offshore wind farms with thousands of wind turbines could have sapped the power...
Videos: Imaging
Many treatments have been used to alleviate phantom limb pain (PLP) with varying success. Researchers at Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology and Sahlgrenska University...
Industry News: Medical
February 2014 Month-End Industry News
Here is the latest batch of news from the medical products community. Please click the link for more.
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
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From the Editor: Medical
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INSIDER: Medical
Oxygen Scavenger Doubles Biosensor Performance
Features: AR/AI
Engineering for the Future: The Trends Transforming Medtech in 2026
Ask the Expert
John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Medical
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Design
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Podcasts: AR/AI
Personalized Medicine and Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Green Design & Manufacturing
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.