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The idea that companies will succeed in the 21st century by drawing in the brightest minds from everywhere and engineering solutions, not just from within their own four walls, has gathered momentum over the last decade. |
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Thursday 8 November, 2007 03:07 AM |
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We all have our favorites, this is a wide ranging list of gadgets and engineering improvements - did they change your world ? - 101 gadgets that changed the world |
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Wednesday 7 November, 2007 07:02 PM |
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As junior Nick Frey sat in his fluid mechanics course last spring, he was thinking about bicycles -- but he wasn’t daydreaming. Engineering principles applied to sporting equipment |
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Wednesday 7 November, 2007 03:05 PM |
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The hull of a modern grand prix ocean racer depends on carbon fibre for its structural integrity but it is a more humble material – steel – which is at the engineering heart of the matter for boat builders such as Eric Goetz, responsible for PUMA Ocean Racing’s Volvo Open 70. |
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Wednesday 7 November, 2007 03:08 AM |
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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have released new research results that could affect how we measure a kilogram - the last SI unit based on a manufactured object. |
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Tuesday 6 November, 2007 11:18 AM |
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Life Cycle Costing (LCC) has long been used in planning for reliability and maintenance for complex engineering systems in defence, airline, railway, offshore platform, power station, and other applications. |
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Monday 5 November, 2007 07:08 PM |
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Always good to see how the auto engineers make it all JUST "come together" BMW has revealed the open variant of the new 1 Series Coupe. The four-seater 1 Series Convertible features a electro-hydraulic soft-top and offers a choice of two 3.0 liter engines. It will go on sale from spring 2008. |
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Monday 5 November, 2007 01:08 PM |
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TOKYO: Want to turn heads with a funky car? Try turning the driver's cabin itself! Nissan has introduced Pivo2 , a battery-powered concept car which can turn the driver's cabin in a circle so you don't need to look backwards while attempting reverse-parking. With engineering assistance is built into the vehicle !! |
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Sunday 4 November, 2007 02:03 AM |
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If your out there trying to hitch a ride - tough --- A robotic truck, Prius, and family sedan will be among the 11 autonomous vehicles trying to pass their driving test this weekend in Victorville, Calif. Following a 2 year break the challenge is on again to engineer automatic vehicles |
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Friday 2 November, 2007 05:04 PM |
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We need to engineer a way forward and drive through change - maybe the solutions are here-- SAN FRANCISCO: Shai Agassi, a Silicon Valley technologist who was in competition to become chief executive of SAP, one of the world's largest software companies, has re-emerged with a grand plan to reinvent the world's automobile industry around battery-powered all-electric cars. Whilst William Mitchell, a professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and his team of engineers and architects have a vision of stackable, two-seater cars forming a city-wide car share scheme.
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Wednesday 31 October, 2007 11:09 AM |
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Real world experiences from people involved with the Stage Gate Process |
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Wednesday 31 October, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Electrical engineering design to the rescue and a positive improvement to the quality of life ---
Following on from the small generator that we described in the March 2007 edition of Eureka, which we then said was “nearly 90 per cent efficient”, the team developing it for use in Third World companies has now reached 95 per cent efficiency.
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Tuesday 30 October, 2007 11:01 AM |
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Engineers have been responsible for a lot of the gear that has enabled so many people to scale Everest (or attempt it at the very least). Inevitably though, some will not survive these harsh conditions. Unfortunately, retrieving bodies from this place is not very easy to do so the majority end up staying there. As time goes on we are creating better technology but Everest will continue to consume lives. |
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Sunday 28 October, 2007 07:08 AM |
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Open communication between engineers for the better good of society as a whole is a noble sentiment - Open-source is a term most commonly applied to software and it refers to a set of principles and practices whereby the design and production information is shared openly, without the normal restrictions encountered when developing software within a commercial environment where intellectual property is closely guarded. |
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Sunday 28 October, 2007 02:09 AM |
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Engineering technology is slicing through the traditional skills Lasers are at the cutting edge of surgery. From cosmetic to brain surgery, intense beams of coherent light are gradually replacing the steel scalpel for many procedures. |
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Saturday 27 October, 2007 06:04 AM |
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It all sounds like a good idea to me - get everyone working together to engineer the goods and processes At the World Design Congress , the profession imagined how to bring designers and managers together on issues such as production and sustainability |
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Friday 26 October, 2007 12:00 AM |
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Promoting German engineering ingenuity - With a scheme it calls ‘Fraunhofer Attract’ , the leading organisation for institutes of applied research in Europe intends to set up 40 new working groups over the next three years.
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Thursday 25 October, 2007 02:00 PM |
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You pay your money and take your choice - some very "eye opening" and suprising results directly relating to engineering quality RELEASED this week, a 10-year study involving responses from 1.3 million owners ranks the most and least reliable cars in six categories. Conducted by the US group Consumer Reports, which operates the largest non-profit educational and consumer product testing centre in the world, the study shows Toyota has marginally dropped in reliability, but Ford has picked up.
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Wednesday 24 October, 2007 06:00 AM |
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This is a challenge which will get the engineers scratching their heads - Rice on the seventh floor . Wheat on the twelfth. And enough food within an 18-story tower to feed a small city of 50,000. |
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Monday 22 October, 2007 10:05 PM |
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Apple is apparently doing great business at the moment. Things look to only be getting better too. I think a lot of their success is partly due to applying some characteristics to their products that us engineers hold close to our hearts. First off is their continual striving for simplicity and consistency which shows in nearly all of their products. They are constantly innovating in an effort to achieve this. Next is their ability to do things the way they want rather than the way everyone else does things. They are constantly pioneering new trends and changing the way we think.
I think engineers in general could learn a lot by looking at the practices of Apple.
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Sunday 21 October, 2007 11:53 AM |
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