Mechanical Mechanical engineers are a special breed. Mechanical Engineers are the ones that can tackle virtually any problem.
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Some robots build cars and some run factories. Then there are those that fight to the death.
A group of those robots will engage in combat at the annual Smackdown in Sactown battle of the bots, noon-5 p.m., Sunday, April 27 in the University Union.
The Smackdown, sponsored by students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, is part of the Engineering Expo, an annual event that showcases student projects.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 03:01 PM |
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“I wish I could retrace my steps!” sighs Sanjay, working with an IT firm. “The nature of my job is so mundane, totally shorn of any intellectual deciphering. Succinctly speaking, it’s just ‘cut and paste’ work, which even a tenth pass can pull off. Besides, there’s the threat of getting ousted from here, when you don’t deliver the goods, not to forget the profession’s concomitant woes of knee pain, backache, eyestrain, et al. I wish I had taken up Mechanical Engineering, for which I had a penchant”, bewails Sanjay.
It’s not uncommon to behold many students choosing an academic course, especially at a crucial phase, much against their wishes. By the time they discern that the move made was downright wrong, the debacle would have turned irrevocable.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 11:00 AM |
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The tests of a 500-foot yacht are being conducted in the shores of the Baltic Sea amid great secrecy.
In the last issue The Sunday Times told about “Flagship yacht for Admiral Abramovich”. The paper states that the Russian magnate, who already owns 3 gorgeous yachts, bought the largest privately owned yacht ever built – the Eclipse. These days the yacht is being tested off the German Baltic island of Ruegen.
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Thursday 10 April, 2008 07:07 PM |
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It's not uncommon this time of year to see a light on somewhere in the University of Evansville's Koch Center for Science & Engineering late at night.
Come spring semester, UE engineering students are burning the midnight oil to prepare various projects for competitions. The students are busy putting their classroom knowledge and personal ingenuity to work on projects such as GPS-guided lawn mowers, firefighting robots, steel bridges, vehicles, concrete canoes and moonbuggies.
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Tuesday 8 April, 2008 03:04 AM |
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FORT COLLINS - Dave Alciatore has taught mechanical engineering at Colorado State University for 18 years, but students still don't call him professor.
To them, he's "Dr. Dave" - a billiards expert who uses the mechanics of pool to help his students learn mechanical engineering and physics principles.
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Saturday 5 April, 2008 11:10 AM |
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A world leading UK engineering firm and Imperial College London are working together to train the next generation of engineering undergraduates in a creative design course which started this month.
Academics from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are working with staff members from the engineering company Buro Happold to teach creative design to first and second year undergraduates studying for their Civil and Environmental Engineering degree at the College.
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Friday 4 April, 2008 03:09 PM |
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Ultra Dynamics,engineers and manufacturer of the UltraJet range of waterjets , says waterjets are currently the first choice of propulsion for wind farm workboats, the reason being increased manoeuvrability and the ability to hold station while work is being carried out. A key requirement when servicing offshore wind farms, especially in very rough sea conditions.
Waterjets can also be serviced quickly and easily often without dry-docking the boat, which means less engineering down time and cost savings to the end customer. An important issue when a vessel is operating in an area where there are no facilities to undertake extensive repair work.
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Friday 4 April, 2008 11:07 AM |
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Fire sprinklers have proven to be a highly effective tool in reducing the loss of life and property from fires for more than 125 years. The usage, as well as the end use applications of these products, continues to expand and, according to the International Fire Sprinkler Association, an estimated 100 million fire sprinklers were installed worldwide in 2006. Because the application and installation environments are expanding and changing, on-going engineering performance assessments of these products in the field are instrumental in maintaining a high level of effectiveness.
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Friday 4 April, 2008 03:02 AM |
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Within a 9 foot by 10 foot by 12 foot vacuum chamber, the microscope, Germany's VisiTec Microtechnik GmbH MIRA X , has a 5-foot by 5-foot by 5-foot operating volume. It is capable of examining 60-inch and larger objects.
"The new MIRA X provides exciting opportunities for the center," said Russell Howard, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Engineering director. "Not only will it result in significant cost savings and invaluable support to critical aging aircraft issues, but we also look for its advanced and unique capabilities to attract additional workload to Tinker from other government agencies and private industries."
"All the angular manipulations used to view an object are accomplished by moving or rotating the column, so the piece stays still," said Scot Roswurm, senior materials engineer and acting chief of the 76th Maintenance Support Squadron's Metallurgical Analysis Section. ....click the link to read more |
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Wednesday 2 April, 2008 03:11 PM |
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Forty Shuar tribe families at the edge of an Amazon rain forest in Ecuador stand to see dramatic improvement in their living conditions through the work of students in Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
Several members of the ASU chapter of Engineers Without Borders spent more than a week this month in the remote Amazonian village of Tsurakú, bringing tribal leaders designs for solutions to their water quality, water supply and sanitation problems. ....click the link to read more |
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Monday 31 March, 2008 11:02 PM |
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Caterpillar Inc., moving to boost its presence in the booming Asia-Pacific market, on Wednesday unveiled an approximately $500 million transaction that will engineer the heavy-equipment giant's 50 percent ownership stake in a Japanese joint venture to a controlling 67 percent.
For more than four decades, the Peoria-based manufacturer and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. have operated an equally owned venture that makes Caterpillar-branded construction and earthmoving equipment. ....click the link to read more |
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Sunday 30 March, 2008 11:19 PM |
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The Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have launched a joint £45m initiative to boost UK medical engineering innovation.
The Medical Engineering initiative will fund the creation of multidisciplinary centres of excellence across the UK. This will bring together experts in the fields of the physical sciences and engineering with those in clinical and life sciences to develop innovative healthcare solutions. ....click the link to read more |
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Saturday 29 March, 2008 11:19 AM |
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Domination of India software industry doesn´t need introduction any more. India software development and support services are catering the industry in the best possible manner. And making these more complimentary is the outsourcing process of engineering services and support to India . Big shots gun Like US and UK are outsourcing their work to India. And in the process of outsourcing each and every single work is outsourced and architectural and engineering outsourcing is vital part of this outsourcing process. ....click the link to read more |
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Friday 28 March, 2008 03:07 AM |
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Partnerships between schools and industry around Mildura in western Victoria are giving students insights and possible entrées into careers in winemaking and engineering .
Regional Industry Career Adviser Pat Hamdorf has used her local knowledge and contacts to initiate relationships between Sunraysia district schools and Lindemans Wines, and between Irymple Secondary College and local firm A&G Engineering. It may not be particularly newsworthy, but the title says it all ....click the link to read more |
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Tuesday 25 March, 2008 03:20 PM |
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It is undeniable that commercial transport jets are undergoing an “extreme makeover” in advanced composites. Composite materials account for roughly half of the structural weight on Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner and Airbus Industries’ materializing A350 XWB. That’s more than double the percentage on commercial jets introduced just 10 years ago and triple that of predecessors brought to market during the early 1990s
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Friday 21 March, 2008 11:07 AM |
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The online condition monitoring and training help manufacturers in the cement industries to eliminate unscheduled shutdowns and avoid repairs to transmission gears, gearboxes and other critical rotating plant and machinery. ....click this link to read more |
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Thursday 20 March, 2008 11:00 PM |
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Southwest Airlines Co., under fire for missing required aircraft inspections , dropped a plan to move some maintenance operations to El Salvador from the U.S.
The carrier ended talks about the idea with its mechanics union this week after the Federal Aviation Administration levied a $10.2-million fine for possible maintenance violations, a union official and a Southwest spokesman said Friday.
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Tuesday 18 March, 2008 03:14 AM |
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LONDON -- Record aircraft orders during the past two years suggest air transport has never been healthier. Yet, despite this optimistic prospect, the question of who is going to maintain all these aircraft could stop airline growth in its tracks. ....click the link to read more |
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Monday 17 March, 2008 07:09 PM |
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique polymers , which change shape upon heating, to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine. ....click the link to read more |
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Monday 21 January, 2008 03:31 PM |
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If Ayn Rand liked children's toys, which she most certainly did not, she would have loved Lego. And if the shovel-faced founder of Objectivism liked amusement parks, which she totally didn't, she would have adored Legoland . After all, the Atlas Shrugged-y motto of Danish Lego creator Ole Kirk Christiansen was "only the best is good enough," which some translate as "the best isn't good enough." The Best ISN'T Good Enough? Ayn would have jazzed on that so hard.
What he's actually trying to say is that Lego is awesome in it's simplicity, consistency and quality. Maybe engineers can all learn something from Lego.
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Friday 7 December, 2007 10:47 PM |
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Designs are well underway for a first of a kind revolutionary ice breaking ship which will also double as a state of the art floating research laboratory. This is an exciting engineering and scientific project which leads to many questions about how the logistics of this type of collaborative European venture can be made to work
The ship which has been named the Aurora Boralis is due for assembly work to start in 2012 Russia has a strong reputation in shipbuilding for arduous conditions and has announced that it will be a partner in launching this state-of-the-art research vessel. Other European nations are expected to join the project soon.
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Thursday 6 December, 2007 11:12 PM |
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