Engineering

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National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	Calif. Ranchers Wield British Radar to Detect Illegal Border Crossers Frustrated by trespassers attempting to cross into the United States illegally, ranch owners in southern California have purchased a British radar in an effort to protect their property and to help Border Patrol agents nab more intruders.
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Jeffrey T. Borenstein	Flexible Microsystems Deliver Drugs Through the Ear A microelectromechanical systems-based microfluidic implant could open up many difficult-to-treat diseases to drug therapy
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Divan & Kreikebaum	Biofuels Aren't Really Green Cultivate inorganic energy sources instead of biofuels. The model we constructed showed that there is simply not enough land and water to support a prosperous biofueled world.
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Peter Fairley	Deflating the Air Car Green cars could run on compressed air instead of batteries. But don't rely on the new AirPod minicars to prove it
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Philip E. Ross	Rebuilding the IBM 1401 A gang of veteran engineers breathes new life into the hulk of an old IBM 1401 computer
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Tekla S. Perry	Zink: Inkless Printing With Colorless Color A magical new inkless printing technology has risen from Polaroid's ashes
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Sally Adee	Chip Design Thwarts Sneak Attack on Data Cache architecture harnesses the power of randomization to neutralize security attacks.
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Sally Adee	New Director for U.S. Energy Department's Mad Science Wing President Barack Obama chose Arunava Majumdar as the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, the U.S. Department of Energy's new research incubator.
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Peter Fairley	Plastic Solar Cells Roll Into Unlit Villages Printed roll-to-roll organic PVs may not be the most powerful, but they're cheap. A scientist at Denmark's Riso National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy has found a cheap way to integrate LEDs, photovoltaic cells, and ultrathin lithium batteries into a potentially life-saving lamp.
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Robert W. Lucky	Engineering Achievements: The Two Lists Will the grand engineering challenges of the 21st century be unlike the greatest achievements of the 20th?
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