Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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Today, electronics product and design companies face the challenge of maintaining differentiation in a maturing and increasingly sophisticated market. They also face the need to protect product intellectual property (IP) in a globalized design and manufacturing environment, where hardware can be reverse-engineered as fast as new products can be produced. Companies today must find new and better ways of approaching the design problem. As a result, many engineers find themselves in the position of having to take on different roles within the design landscape in order to move up the value chain and remain relevant into the future.
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Friday 12 September, 2008 03:55 AM |
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So, the kids are back at school after another long, hot summer – assuming that they’ve spent it abroad, that is.
We’ve had yet another year of record GCSE and A-level pass rates and grades, so everything in the garden is rosy and the future is going to be safe in the hands of the country’s superbly educated youth.
That’s alright then. No, seriously, I mean it. Or I suppose what I mean is that it ought to be alright.
What concerns me is whether the best and the brightest will end up where we need them most – in the companies that actually generate the wealth and innovation upon which we depend – and those companies are, of course, manufacturing and engineering companies.
I know you’d expect me to bang the drum for manufacturing , but it is true – we make the money and everyone else just plays about with it. So, given that ours is one of the most important roles in society, as the wealth creators, why is it that we’re not beating would-be young manufacturers away with a stick?
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Thursday 11 September, 2008 11:51 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
STANFORD, Calif.-- The Stanford School of Engineering today announced that Jen-Hsun Huang, the founder and chief executive officer of leading visual computing company NVIDIA and a Stanford electrical engineering alumnus, will donate $30 million to help build a modern and sustainable destination for education and research, the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center.
The 130,000-square-foot building, already under construction and expected to be completed in the first half of 2010, is designed to encourage a vibrant academic and social atmosphere for people throughout the Stanford community.
"The School of Engineering at Stanford is a major source of intellectual energy for Silicon Valley and beyond," said Huang, who earned his master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford in 1992. "I am proud to help the school build a headquarters that embodies its plans for the future -- a place that encourages people to come together to create the next generation of knowledge and technology."
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Thursday 11 September, 2008 01:46 PM |
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"Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business"
Jeff Howe's new book belongs in the same section of your library as "The Wisdom of Crowds," "The Starfish and the Spider," "Wikinomics," "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" and Seth Godin's forthcoming "Tribes." The subject is group intelligence, or as Howe, a writer for Wired and other publications, calls it, "crowdsourcing."
It's not the greatest name in the world, but it'll do. More accurately, it's "aggregated intelligence" since it's really the product of a bunch of individuals and not a "crowd." And it's at its most powerful when disparate and diverse elements and interests come together (virtually) to solve or just work on a single issue.
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Thursday 11 September, 2008 09:42 AM |
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Students in a recently developed design class at the University of Cincinnati are meeting and working at the bottom of the university’s Olympic-sized pool.
It’s all part of a new Extreme Environments design course. The point of the underwater exercises is the same as that for any site visit: to first experience an environment and then design for it, according to Brian F. Davies, associate professor of architecture in UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and initiator of the Extreme Environments design class.
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 09:55 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
German innovation and technical excellence have long been lauded, but few have been privy to the latest developments in German research.
These developments will be under the spotlight at the Insite 2008 exhibition, thanks to an impressive gathering of Germany's best higher education and research institutes at a specially designed pavilion.
Facilitated by the German ministry of education and research and the German Academic Exchange Service (Daad), the German pavilion will include presentations by the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel, the University of Duisburg Essen, the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy, GFZ Potsdam, the University of Witten-Herdecke's Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management, the Rheinisch-Westfälische University of Aachen, the Fraunhofer Institute, the German Development Institute Bonn, the joint projects Biota and Inkaba yeAfrica, and Baden-Württemberg International.
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 09:52 AM |
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BRITAIN needs more engineers. It is a widely held belief and yet we remain unable to bridge the gap between intention and action. Britain trades on the triumphs of its industrial forefathers while failing to safeguard its engineering future.
Only by introducing young people to the excitement and creativity of science and technology can we stay in the race. Snobbery and government bureaucracy stand in the way of progress. On the one hand industry is invited to play its part in education and on the other government red tape reins in momentum.
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Sunday 7 September, 2008 10:36 AM |
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On Saturday, ScienceDebate 2008 and Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA) announced that Barack Obama answered a fourteen-part questionnaire that they put together along with several other scientifically oriented organizations. Major props to ScienceDebate, SEA, and these other organizations for making this happen and to Barack Obama for thoroughly answering these fourteen questions.
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Saturday 6 September, 2008 08:06 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
The one-year Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership (PGPEX-VLM), conducted by Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), is nearing its successful completion.
Participants are getting ready for the international study visit early July where they visit facilities of Japan Honda Saitama Factory, Kao logistics center, Hino Motors, Sharp, Yao factory, Patlite, Kasai Recycling Systems, Toyota, Panasonic House of History, Panasonic HRD College, and Toyota commemorative museum of industry and technology.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 04:38 AM |
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As you drive through the security barriers and past Route de Albert Einstein towards the old canteen where, it is said, many of the greatest leaps in our understanding of the universe had their genesis over a cup of strong Swiss coffee and a Gauloise, you cannot fail but sigh with relief that, in one tiny corner of the world, pure exploration continues, relatively unsullied.
Cern is noble, essential and precious; an almost utopian village of ten thousand physicists and engineers from 85 countries, formed by a recovering Europe after the second world war
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Monday 30 June, 2008 10:00 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
Engineering and medicine still remain popular choices for students in India, but a quiet initiative is underway to get recognition for a subject of study that’s increasingly gaining prominence in industry, but remains neglected in academics — design.
“Design is a creative course that looks at constant innovation and new ideas. It provides the student with a variety of skills,” says Ravi Poovaiah, co-ordinator of the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Powai, which is planning to send a proposal to the Ministry of Human Resources Development to allow introduction of design as a subject of study at the undergraduate level in art colleges across the country.
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Monday 30 June, 2008 04:10 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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A Government of India initiative to share Indian expertise in Education and Medicine connecting 53 African Nations • First of its kind System Integration project for HCL Infosystems in Africa. • The e-Network will enable Tele-Education, Tele-Medicine, Video-conferencing and VOIP services; connecting 7 Indian universities & 12 super specialty hospitals to 5 African regional universities, 5 super specialty hospitals and 53 learning centers all over Africa
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Sunday 29 June, 2008 12:11 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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In July, on a typically oppressive summer day in Washington, D.C., roughly a thousand college students from across the country gathered at a Marriott hotel with plans to change the world . Despite being sponsored by the Center for American Progress, a moderate think tank founded by one of Bill Clinton’s former chiefs of staff, John Podesta, the student group—called Campus Progress—leans decidedly farther to the left. At booths outside the main auditorium, young activists handed out pamphlets opposing nuclear power, high pay for CEOs, excessive profits for oil companies, harsh prison sentences for drug users, and Israeli militarism in Gaza and the West Bank
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 04:27 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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Words are hard to describe what artist Chris Lutter-Gardella creates by using trash. Residents in the St. Croix Valley are beginning to experience his unique style and his provocative mission statement. “To improve the health of human communities and the Earth by teaching people the process of transforming waste materials into imaginative art.”
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Sunday 22 June, 2008 02:12 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Israel's prowess in high-tech and healthcare goes back more than the State's 60 years, and is powered by many motives.Joseph Morgenstern Israel’s high-technology scene is far from being 60 years old. For nearly 20 years of its existence Israel imported all of its technology needs, mostly from France. Its proudest achievement was drip irrigation. Israel’s exports consisted mainly of citrus fruits. Its universities did not concentrate on sciences and engineering.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 02:40 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
Few innovators, creators, thinkers and dreamers have had the flair of Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion.
He was flamboyant, nearly to a fault, a playboy who lived life to the fullest and enjoyed the sense of adventure nearly as much as he loved finding a better invention.
What a perfect mix, that energy and engineering foresight.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 10:38 AM |
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What will the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic torches look like and how will the cauldron showcase the Olympic Flame at BC Place Stadium on February 12, 2010? While the answers will remain a surprise for months to come, Bombardier has received the honour of designing and manufacturing the iconic torches and cauldrons for the 2010 Winter Games.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 01:28 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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This year the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) successfully conducted the Common Entrance Test and CET counselling is now on in full swing. The counselling for students who opted for the engineering stream has just started and will go on until all the seats are distribute.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 04:16 AM |
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In Silicon Valley , the stars have long been charismatic marketing visionaries and cool-nerd software wizards. By contrast, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers were traditionally regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 06:58 PM |
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The new higher-education academy launched this month to solve the malaise affecting the engineering sector has no money and no buildings. When placed alongside other academies we're used to reading about, it ain't much cop.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 12:45 PM |
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