Motivational
Many engineers complain that there is a lack of talent among younger engineers, and that there are few people ready to take up the mantle of engineering excellence.
Eureka’s experience over the summer has been somewhat different. While it is true that engineering numbers are dwindling – and there has never been a greater need to boost the numbers of engineering students – there is certainly no lack of talent within design engineering.
We visited several ‘end of year’ design shows over the course of the summer. What you see here is a selection of ideas that caught the eye – there were many other ideas out there that we simply do not have space to print.
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Monday 15 September, 2008 01:02 PM |
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Look at an iPod or the award-winning new running shoe, the Free. Simple . . . cool . . . and there’s a lot of science and engineering here.
Innovative corporations like Nike and Apple know how to reach their school-age customers with products and services that expand minds and build bodies. They have a deep understanding of the needs and interests of young people - and a keen eye for design.
The business magazines are figuring out the lesson: Good innovation and design balance scientific analysis with artistic creativity. It’s this combination that leads to success in the global market.
Can you imagine a lengthy public shouting match over the next nano or swoosh color? Probably not, because they . . . Just Do It. |
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Sunday 14 September, 2008 09:13 AM |
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If robots becoming smart enough to make other robots is a threat to humanity’s survival, what about robotics companies spawning other robotics companies?
Cheaper technology and changing demographics are making robotics startups more viable, and an entrepreneurial itch felt by several former iRobot Corp. employees is creating a diaspora of Massachusetts robot makers.
Barriers to entry for robotics companies are dropping. Technology costs less, more college graduates are entering the workforce with robotics experience, and seasoned employees are leaving established robotics companies to form their own startups. It’s a smaller-scale version of the Internet ecosystem created by alumni of Google and Amazon.com, says Cory Kidd, CEO of MIT robotics spinout Intuitive Automata Inc. “Both academia and industry are advancing the state of the art,” he said. |
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Friday 12 September, 2008 11:34 AM |
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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 04:55 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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Friday 12 September, 2008 12:51 AM |
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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 02:46 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 10:42 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 10:55 AM |
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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 10:52 AM |
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