Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
Ever since man discovered oil as a source of energy, the importance of and the demand for oil has only increased. The emergence of oil not only saw the gradual demise of the 'coal age', but its effectiveness as a source of energy caused yet another industrial revolution, enabling mankind to improve their lives with new technological inventions powered by oil.
Consequently, almost every aspect of today's life, whether it is travelling, working, or cooking your simple meal, is inextricably linked with oil, coming in all forms like petrol, diesel and gas.
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Thursday 12 June, 2008 02:47 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
To all those motorists snarled in traffic when a Route 35 drawbridge linking Old Bridge and Sayreville jammed in the heat Sunday, cheer up. It could have been worse.
The car could have died. The air conditioner at home could have conked out. Monday morning train delays could have made your commute unbearable.
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Wednesday 11 June, 2008 12:00 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
COOKEVILLE -- Former TTU professor and soon-to-be-former Cookeville resident V.C. Venkatesh has just co-authored a seminal book in the field of engineering. Released only last month by McGraw-Hill, "Precision Engineering" is already on its way to becoming a key text in engineering programs worldwide.
His new book explains the state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques on the micro and nano levels that are required to create ultra-precise components.
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Sunday 8 June, 2008 10:33 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
A recurring theme in the government's skills strategy is that much of Britain's future national prosperity will depend on our wits, our imagination and our creativity. We have to grow a "knowledge economy", in which skills and knowhow, rather than the attributes once needed for mass production, are paramount.
Do ministers believe this? When it comes to giving out the hard cash, do they follow through from all their speeches and policy papers? Some of those in the creative industries are not convinced. When it comes, for instance, to expanding the number of apprenticeships, they suspect that ministers are still more likely to put their money into older, "safer" sectors of the economy.
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Wednesday 4 June, 2008 12:10 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Here’s a funny article from the Boston Globe on the Larry Summers Quandary: Why have women professors made so much more progress at Harvard’s Law, Business, and Medical schools than in its mathematics and engineering departments? It’s a good article, but what’s amusing and depressing is how hard the journalist has to work to explain concepts that should be bleeding obvious to any college student, much less the college professors who will be most professionally interested in this topic.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 10:46 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Did you know Trivia - The UK government has launched a £200m training project in a bid to tackle UK skills shortages and avoid relying on migrant workers to fill the gaps.
John Denham, secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills, announced the funding will pay for specialist training colleges focusing on construction, IT, finance, science and engineering industries over the next three years.
click this link to read more
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 10:37 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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"A story in the New York Times reports that Japan, a country that rebuilt itself as a technological power after World War II, now faces an increasing shortage of college graduates with degrees in science and engineering. Says the article: 'By one ministry of internal affairs estimate, the digital technology industry here is already short almost half a million engineers.' The article goes on to point out that the overall trend of waning interest in science and technology has been going on for 'almost two decades' and that the shortage is made worse by the traditional reluctance of Japanese companies to hire and use foreign workers. The US has had a similar trend for quite some time: 'Undergraduate engineering enrollment declined through most of the 1980s and 1990s, rose from 2000 through 2003, and declined slightly in recent years.'"
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 12:34 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Castrol Professional is designed to help dealerships increase their after sales profit. A number of programmes have been developed to target a variety of dealership revenue streams and help them maximise customer potential in more than just oil. When Castrol teamed up with some of the biggest names in football to support their UEFA EURO 2008™ sponsorship, they discovered that there are more similarities between running a successful dealership and succeeding in football than you might think…
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Monday 19 May, 2008 05:46 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
A growing crisis threatens to engulf British businesses because of the slump in the number of manufacturing and engineering graduates coming out of UK universities, the head of the CBI warned yesterday. Richard Lambert, the director general of the CBI, said that major UK companies were already struggling to recruit the engineers they desperately needed and that foreign businesses would no longer want to invest in the UK if they could not rely on finding the skilled workforce they need here.
"About three-quarters of our engineering companies expect a shortfall in recruitment this year," Mr Lambert said. "More companies are having to recruit internationally to fill the gaps but other countries have exactly the same problems and sometimes the quality is not what we are looking for.
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Monday 19 May, 2008 03:44 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
Erika Kangas and Iva Shallvari are the engineers of their own career fates , meaning there was no hemming and hawing about how they would apply their math and science skills in university.
Since childhood, the Ontario residents have had their sights set on careers in engineering — goals that run contrary to the norm, as statistics show declining numbers of female students in Canadian undergraduate university programs.
They don't know each other, but Ms. Kangas, an aerospace engineering student at Ryerson University in Toronto, and Ms. Shallvari, studying mechanical engineering at the University of Windsor, have a lot in common.
....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 10:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
With the recent escalation in food prices globally, the Vanguard America correspondent in Houston, for the Oil and Technology conference talked to Anthony Ndah, Nigerian engineer with expertise in energy resources and petroleum engineering.
Tony was the best in his Geology class at Ibadan University and graduated with Bachelor of Science in Petroleum engineering and proceeded to Texas University (A&M) with a Master degree in petroleum engineering. His scope of experience extends from field level to management. He has worked extensively in the U. S. Gulf Coast region and Alaska; Caribbean and Brazil, for the last three years in the prolific oil producing areas of Siberia and Azerbaijan and Egypt and Algeria.
....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 03:33 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
The Iron Man flick pressed my buttons from start to finish. Specifically, that little gadget nerd button over my heart, right where Tony Stark's arc reactor plugs in. On one hand, Stark's legendary womanizing, alcoholism and vanity are way underdeveloped. (Disappointingly, Downy Jr. looks too sober.) But if you're at all interested in the future of exoskeletons, holographic 3D CAD, advanced heads-up displays and stuff blowing up under the recoil-free power of repulsor beams, you're going to want to see this movie, well, just to see it.
....click the link to read more
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Sunday 4 May, 2008 10:02 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
In confronting the “gathering storm” of declining competitiveness in the global marketplace , policy makers and business leaders often point to the importance of foreign students and international education in boosting both research and the American work force. A new report released on Thursday argues instead that the solution lies at home, “untapped,” waiting for the nation to wake up to the “quiet crisis” of minority underrepresentation in engineering-related fields.
....click the link to read more
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Friday 2 May, 2008 10:26 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
A TEAM of engineering boffins at Neath Port Talbot College has helped Corus develop a new system for treating water at the plant.
Their creation secured the A-level students runners-up place in the best working model or prototype category at the Engineering Education Scheme Wales Awards.
The students picked up their award at a presentation evening at the five-star Celtic Manor Resort in Newport.
They outclassed teams from nearly 60 other further education colleges across Wales, also coming second in the most commercial potential and the most effective use of materials categories.
....click the link to read more
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Thursday 1 May, 2008 02:37 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Volume alone hasn’t raised spirits to almost a third of alcohol sales. Sky-high prices and dazzling packaging also factor in.
Not too many decades ago, vodka was a proletarian drink that could fuel a combustion engine in a pinch. Today, vodka is a star in the distilled spirits galaxy, with super premium and ultra premium brands crowding low-end vodkas off the shelf.
Now, the fallen are mighty.
....click the link to read more
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Thursday 1 May, 2008 06:35 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
Hidden deep inside the jungle-covered carst mountains of northern Laos lies a secret cave city where revolutionary leaders survived nearly a decade of US bombing during the Vietnam war.
Now, over 30 years since the conflict ended, the communist country has opened up the remote wartime hideaway to tourism, hoping to bring development to this explosives-littered and dirt-poor part of the country.
...as an engineer, this type of story alway makes me think about the logistics of having a community of this size exist in these conditions. Simple things like sewage, water and services....
....click the link to read more
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Tuesday 29 April, 2008 06:39 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
One train leaves Station A at 6 p.m. traveling at 40 miles per hour toward Station B. A second train leaves Station B at 7 p.m. traveling on parallel tracks at 50 m.p.h. toward Station A. The stations are 400 miles apart. When do the trains pass each other?
Entranced, perhaps, by those infamous hypothetical trains, many educators in recent years have incorporated more and more examples from the real world to teach abstract concepts. The idea is that making math more relevant makes it easier to learn.
....click the link to read more
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Sunday 27 April, 2008 06:01 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the folks at Nemo Equipment beat you to it.
"The strange thing is, people hardly noticed. They'd drive by, maybe look – but that's all," mused Connie Yang, director of engineering for Nemo, which creates a line of backcountry tents in its Factory Street plant. (Passers-by were probably too busy talking on their cell phones.)
This unorthodox trip was made last November by the company's two-person backpacking tent, the Morpho AR, shortly after it made an even more unorthodox car-top trip up and down the airstrip at the Nashua Municipal Airport – all in the name of good television.
....click this link to read more
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 02:10 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
In July 2007, Professor Helen Atkinson, Head of the Mechanics of Materials Group at the University of Leicester, was awarded the highest accolade an engineer can receive in the UK.
Professor Atkinson, described as among the ‘cream of the UK’s engineering talent’, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of only two women elected last year. The Royal Academy has 1,407 Fellows. Only 27 are women.
She is, of course, thrilled at her election to the Royal Academy of Engineering. “I feel incredibly honoured, but I also see it as a recognition of the teams of people I’ve worked with over the years. I’ve been very fortunate in that respect and I see this as a tribute to them as well as to what I’ve achieved.”
....click the link to read more
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Monday 21 April, 2008 02:21 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
ICS Penetron International, Ltd. announced their involvement and support of Engineers Without Borders-USA , a non-profit humanitarian organization that strives to improve the quality of life of developing communities worldwide. Penetron, a leading manufacturer in the field of integral crystalline capillary systems for the waterproofing, protection and repair of concrete, has committed its forces to the EWB organization through corporate, chapter and individual member sponsorships as well as material and technical support.
....click this link to read more
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