Engineering

If Biometrics Can Prevent A Civil War, What Else Can It Do?

In 2012 two cargo planes full of high-tech equipment were delivered to the Republic of Kenya in Africa in hopes of avoiding civil unrest similar to what occurred in 2007 after a national election. Ideally,…

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US Army’s Top Secret Nuclear City, Camp Century, Hidden Under Greenland’s Glaciers

Camp Century was a nuclear powered research center built by the US Army Corps of Engineers under the icy surface of Greenland. The large island Greenland is almost entirely frozen and inhospitable. This climatically hostile…

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Solar Cell Research “Births” New Field Of Nanobionics

Plants As Sensors & Engineering Machines We often think of plants as fragrant, delicate, beautiful. But more and more we are seeing plants and their functional units or “organelles” as “engineered machines” that not only…

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Unmanned Agricultural Robocopter Market to Reach $16.3 Billion by 2020

Agricultural Spraying to Benefit from New Robocopter Technology Hobbyists and the military have fully embraced remote control helicopters. Now agricultural, one of the Earth’s behemoths, is getting on board. Robohelicopter market leaders include Yamaha, Lely,…

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“Wanderers Tormented with an Everlasting Itch for Things Remote”

With the successful launch and splashdown yesterday of the Orion Spacecraft, the first step toward an eventual trip to Mars, a new space age has begun filled with hope and promise and so it is…

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Industrial Robot Katana Fight (Video)

Mechanical Samurai Robot Katana Fight Today’s industrial machines and robots are capable of extremely intricate movements. Swiss ABB has created two katana, aka Japanese sword, wielding robots that maneuver through a series of fight sequences and…

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No More Paper Waste: This Unique Device Turns Waste Paper Into Pencils

In today’s electronic age, people have started thinking about going completely paperless. However, we still have a long way to go before we cut our dependence on paper altogether, the major reason for deforestation across the globe.…

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Being the Only Engineer in a Business Meeting (Video)

Dealing With A “Tower of Babel” Electrical engineer Ed Schilling worked for GE for 35 years at a television picture tube manufacturing facility in Syracuse, New York. As a manager he and colleagues sat through…

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In Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) – The Next Great Innovation In Automobiles?

Humans get attached to the things they use frequently, as our new love affair with smartphones attests. But a new form of entertainment, automobile “infotainment”, promises to provide a new form of technology obsession. Services…

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Nuclear Power: Stayin’ Alive Via Tech Advances, Renewables Intermittency

Today the typical nuclear power company has two types of workers, those over 50 who accomplished something in the industry from the 1950’s to 1970’s and those in their 20’s and early 30’s who have…

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