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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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A major engineering feat as -- The Delta IV Heavy - the US military's biggest satellite launcher - which has flown for only the second time. -- The huge rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida and successfully placed a spy spacecraft in orbit.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 10:07 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
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Developing countries are deeply divided about how to advance troubled talks over a new global trade deal , and few ministers will attend a meeting this week meant to show their unity, diplomats said on Monday. Brazil invited nearly 30 top officials from emerging nations to Geneva to discuss next steps for the six-year-old Doha round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks, which are mired in tensions between rich and poor countries.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 08:06 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Germany's Porsche on Friday said first-half profit will rocket to over $1 billion, thanks to substantial gains from building its stake in Volkswagen, though sales have fallen as it prepares to introduce the latest version of its Cayenne sports utility vehicle. The auto engineering company, which also makes the iconic 911 sports car, said it feels more optimistic for the year as a whole and now expects to match the profit it achieved in the previous fiscal year.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 06:03 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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Google Earth has opened up a whole new world of time-wasting. As engineers, most of us were content to spend a couple of minutes trying in vain to find our house before heading out for a pie, some dedicated fellows have been scouring the world for oddities. Mark Steer wantonly reaped the fruits of their labour.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 04:03 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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First the planes and then the engines to make them fly LONDON -- U.K. engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce Group on Monday said the aircraft leasing arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has placed an order for Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines to power a new fleet of 30 Airbus A350 XWB
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 02:03 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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Engineers will tell you that it sounds too good to be true – power generation by microbial fuel cells utilising wastewater and residual products from the pretreatment of straw! But that is precisely the object of a new project launched by the Biosystems Department and the Fuel Cells and Solid-State Chemistry Department on Risø DTU.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 12:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
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The destruction reported regarding september 11 may not have actually occored. There are many conspiracy theories surrounding this monumental event and this analysis may lend weight to some of them. Considering this was the first time anything like this had happened before we don't really have much in the way of experience to draw upon. As a result engineers turn to similar results in other areas as a comparison. This guy reckons there's no way those steal beams could have melted due to the impact and explosion of the planes.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 10:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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If Latin America is doing so well, why can’t it compete? A closer look at the reasons - and solutions.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 08:07 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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The first thing that strikes engineers and business travellers when they arrive in Warsaw is the cluster of glass-fronted skyscrapers around the dauntingly Gothic Palace of Culture and Science , Stalin’s 230m (755ft) “gift” to the Polish people.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 06:04 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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CELEBRITY scientist and senate candidate Karl Kruszelnicki has recanted from his description of clean-coal technology as a complete engineering furphy, now admitting it is worthwhile pursuing the technology as a short-term solution to climate change. Whist in a related story - Carbon Capitalists Grab Gas From Pig Waste in an Evangelical Quest,
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 04:07 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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Politics overshadows engineering when it comes to signing on the bottom line -- DUBAI (AFP) - Airbus overshadowed its US rival Boeing at the Dubai air show Sunday, winning an order from Emirates worth more than 20 billion dollars. and Gulf airlines shares it's favours buying 140 jetliners for $40 billion from both companies
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 02:02 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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Unique engineering to produce devastating results ??--- The military destroyed a simulated salvo of two short-range ballistic missiles more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) over the Pacific Tuesday night in the first such simultaneous test in space.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 12:01 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
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Necessity being the Mother of Invention -- It's easy to dismiss fast-growing developing countries as copycat engineers, low-cost outsourcers and back-office operators.
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Monday 12 November, 2007 10:05 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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A long time leader in this field of engineering - there could be a steady stream of visitors "flying down to Rio" Brazil has several competitive advantages over the United States when it comes to producing ethanol.
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Monday 12 November, 2007 08:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Do you tap the top of a soda can before opening it? Do you know anyone else who does? Do you even know what the theory is behind why it is supposed to stop the can from frothing when opened? Do you know where the theory came from? Did you know it may even do more harm than good?
If you would like to know the answers to these questions then look no farther. What I would really like to see however is someone engineer a way to indicate to the user (opener, whatever you want to call them) what the potential is for the can to explode upon opening.
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Monday 12 November, 2007 06:01 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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The world still trusts the good quality of China's products despite a string of recalls in recent months, a senior Chinese official said Monday. Although recent months have seen a string of quality issues. In July this year, the Chinese quality regulator said that nearly a fifth of the food and consumer products it checked in a nationwide survey this year were found to be substandard or tainted.
The broad sampling of foods, agricultural tools, clothing, women's and children's products and other types of goods turned up sizable quality and safety failure rates for products that are sold to Chinese consumers.
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Monday 12 November, 2007 04:03 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
A rather large amount of the energy we create today comes from 3 sources, Oil, gas and coal. The only problem is that each of these is finite in it's amount and many estimates suggest we are nearing that amount. Meanwhile the population is increasing and energy requirements are going up.
This article covers in detail how our energy is currently produced, how those sources are going to hold up over time and how they will be redistributed and also the impact it's going to have on our population as a whole. It's a long read but very concise and interesting.
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Monday 12 November, 2007 02:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
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While it seems we've come a long way from the days of hand drafting plans, slide rules, and even basic CAD, just how far have we come? With that question looming, the editors of CE News set out to determine "the state of practice" of civil engineering technology, specifically exploring the use of 3-D models for civil engineering, GPS machine control, GIS for civil engineering, and 3-D laser scanning
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Monday 12 November, 2007 12:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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Three years ago, I joined the board of a company whose management, I soon recognized, was incompetent . I said so, but I was a new board member and the management had a lot of old friends and allies on the board. I was listened to respectfully but nothing much happened.
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Monday 12 November, 2007 10:05 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Money, money, money - it's a rich mans world - if you can engineer the deals THE United States has more billionaires than any other country: 415 by the last count of Forbes magazine.
No. 2, and closing fast? China
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Monday 12 November, 2007 08:01 AM |
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