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Current Engineering Articles
Chemistry World
February 2, 2012
Philip Robinson
Ultrafast NMR shows the way Chemists have created an ultrafast NMR technique that can 'watch' how chemical reactions occur in real time. They've used the technique to follow the formation of pyrimidines from carbonyls and even identified new intermediates never before thought to be part of the reaction. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Erico Guizzo
Dream Jobs 2012: Bridging Brazil's Digital Divide Brazilian engineer Jose Edimilson Canaes teaches people to turn the power of computers onto social problems mark for My Articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Eliza Strickland
Dream Jobs 2012: Building Ocean Explorers Ocean engineer Kevin Hardy's creations plumb the depths of the Mariana Trench mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
David Schneider
Dream Jobs 2012: Building a Hybrid-Electric, Unmanned Heliplane The leader of Aerovel's avionics design team, John Stafford, gravitates to small, informal companies mark for My Articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Alaina G. Levine
Dream Jobs 2012: Designing Automation for Acrobats Phillip Toussaint's computer code moves the scenery, props, and other gear that make magic for Cirque du Soleil and other extravaganzas mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Rachel Courtland
Dream Jobs 2012: Lego Queen Nicole Richard uses Lego kits to educate budding engineers mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Marisa Plumb
Dream Jobs 2012: P2P Politics Ever since the Obama campaign, former AOL executive Jascha Franklin-Hodge has been using the Web to improve political campaigning mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Eliza Strickland
Dream Jobs 2012: Quick-Draw Animator Software creator Kevin Wang's tools turn news stories into viral videos mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Tekla S. Perry
Dream Jobs 2012: Rube Goldberg 2.0 Brent Bushnell is a jack-of-all-tech-trades with a whimsical take on real-world engineering mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Rachel Courtland
Dream Jobs 2012: Sports Geek Athlete/engineer Antoine Ravise finds his calling developing next-generation sports gear mark for My Articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Eliza Strickland
Dream Jobs 2012: Web Guru for the Blind IBM researcher Chieko Asakawa can't see your website, but she can make it better mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Sung & Lee
Graphene: The Ultimate Switch Graphene could replace the transistor with switches that steer electrons just like beams of light mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Special Report: Dream Jobs 2012 There's nothing textbook about the careers of the 10 engineers profiled in our annual Dream Jobs roundup mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Miles et al.
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
David Schneider
LightSquared's GPS-Interference Controversy Comes to a Boil Cellular wannabe can't reach a deal with GPS community mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Neil Savage
Nanostructures Catch the Light Razor-thin solar cells could be cheap but need a little help holding light in mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Rachel Courtland
Self-Assembly Takes Shape Researchers exploit new ways to make ICs and hard disks pull themselves together mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Peter Fairley
Undersea Observatory Survives Setback Neptune Canada recovers from an outage and its U.S. counterpart finally gets started mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Paul McFedries
Tufte-isms The proponents of information design and their guru, Edward R.Tufte present -- and talk about -- data efficiently mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Ada Brunstein
Engineers: What's in a Name? The words we use for engineering disciplines have changed dramatically mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
John Blau
Passport to Engineering A new ID card will establish an engineer's credentials throughout the EU mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2012
William I. Oberholtzer
An Inexpensive Solution for Quickly Launching Military Satellites Into Space The recent publication of the successful work done by the Naval Research Laboratory on rail gun technology indicates it is timely to consider the use of the rail gun as a timely response for the initial or replacement launch of satellites. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 19, 2012
Jon Evans
New microbe turns sugary seaweed into fuel Seaweed may soon be a source of biofuel, thanks to an engineered microbe able to transform seaweed directly into ethanol. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 19, 2012
Elinor Richards
Korean doors inspire new energy converter In a setup resembling traditional Korean doors, scientists from Korea have made dye-sensitised solar cells that are bendy enough to be rolled around a pen and twisted, while maintaining their energy conversion efficiency at 90% of that of the flat form. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 19, 2012
Rebecca Brodie
Efficiently harvesting the power of the sun Scientists from Japan and India have created a dye-sensitised solar cell with the highest recorded efficiency of 11.4%, breaking the record set five years ago. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2012
Sandra I. Erwin
Stronger-Than-Steel Light Combat Trucks Still a Pipedream The JLTV program, intended for both the Army and the Marine Corps, is becoming a test case for how far military and industry engineers can push the boundaries of armor technology as they seek a truck to replace the Humvee later this decade. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2012
Stew Magnuson
Robot-Makers Ponder Next Moves as Wars Wind Down The end of the nearly nine-year war closed one chapter for a technology that came into its own during the conflict. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel
Booster Sought To Launch and Launch Some More When rocket boosters propel a vehicle into space, it usually is a one-time deal. Parts of a launch system burn up, fall into the ocean or remain in an orbital graveyard never to be used again. mark for My Articles similar articles
Fast Company
January 9, 2012
Adam Bluestein
As Smartphones Get Smarter, You May Get Healthier: How mHealth Can Bring Cheaper Health Care To All Smartphones and tablets are transforming the future of health care. Can we really trust them to save lives? mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Paul Wallich
3-D Printing Takes Shape In 2012, 3-D printing technology will go from prototyping to production mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Jean Kumagai
A Battery as Big as the Grid 2012 could mark the arrival of utility-scale battery storage mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Eliza Strickland
Birth of the Bionic Eye In 2012, electrodes will bring eyesight to the blind mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Lawrence Ulrich
Charge of the EV Brigade 2012 will test the feasibility of EV charging stations mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Joseph Calamia
China's Homegrown Supercomputers In 2012, China's chips will power the Dawning 6000 mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Katie M. Palmer
EUV Faces Its Most Critical Test 2012 will be the make-or-break year for extreme ultraviolet lithography mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Marisa Plumb
Fantastic 4G Hundreds of telecoms will invest in 4G LTE networks in 2012 mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Eliza Strickland
Good-bye, Wheelchair, Hello Exoskeleton This year, the Ekso Bionics exoskeleton for paraplegics hits the market mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Richard Stevenson
LED Bulbs for Less In 2012, there will finally be a first-rate LED bulb you can afford mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
David Schneider
Plug-in Vehicles Proliferate Full battery-electric and hybrid-electric plug-in vehicles will start hitting the streets in significant numbers later this year mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Neil Savage
Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
David Schneider
Helicopters Go Electric Electric flight takes on the final frontier mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Katie M. Palmer
Intellectual Ventures Invents Beam-Steering Metamaterials Antenna IV and others aim at cheap in-flight broadband mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Rachel Courtland
Start-up Seeks New Life for Planar Transistors SuVolta is pursuing precision doping in its bid to compete with 3-D transistor technology mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Philip E. Ross
Don't Let Innovation Languish The world's economy depends on innovation rates that are faster than they were for most of human history -- and faster than they are today. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Robert W. Lucky
The Ubiquitous Webcam Do we really want to know what the dog does when it's home alone. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 22, 2011
Laura Howes
Artificial hips glide on graphite Metal-on metal hip replacements are lubricated by a layer of graphite, say scientists in the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
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