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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is on a mission to create a world class educational institution for his country. And to show how serious he is he's throwing $12.5 billion at it.
Feel like doing some research? How about doing it in some of the best laboratories money can buy with some generous grants. That's what's being offered to lure some of the best academics they can get.
I'm sure there are some pretty nice engineering projects you could explore with these facilities.
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Saturday 27 October, 2007 11:04 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
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Lightweight and easy to work with - engineers love aluminium and so do lots of others THE aluminium industry is set for a scramble for market share after Rio Tinto employees yesterday celebrated the completion of its $US38 billion purchase of Alcan in Brisbane and Montreal.
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Saturday 27 October, 2007 09:01 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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The BMW engineers must be turning over in their graves over this action - but it makes a point On the second floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, there is a giant walk-in freezer set at minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 Fahrenheit). The sole entity inside is a BMW hydrogen-powered race car stripped to its frame, draped in ice and glowing like a strange Arctic insect.
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Saturday 27 October, 2007 07:07 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Engineering technology is slicing through the traditional skills Lasers are at the cutting edge of surgery. From cosmetic to brain surgery, intense beams of coherent light are gradually replacing the steel scalpel for many procedures.
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Saturday 27 October, 2007 05:04 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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We should all have our own tame robot - engineering expertise is getting it closer all the time As Japan’s population continues to age and shrink, more and more people are looking at robots as a way to improve productivity and support the nation’s changing lifestyles
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Saturday 27 October, 2007 03:00 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Cows and methane go together and to harness the energy through clever engineering is good A pit full of cow dung may not come to mind when thinking about electricity, but to Dean Kamen , engineer, entrepreneur and famed inventor of the Segway, it does.
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Saturday 27 October, 2007 01:03 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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This is a "tacky" subject but we will "stick" to the article and try to "adhere" to all of the facts as the chemical engineers might say - ..... Flexible displays, water-purification filters, and materials that convert heat directly into electricity could be easier to make thanks to a new polymer that allows researchers to coat almost any object, even one made of Teflon, with microscopic patterns of metals and organic materials.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 11:07 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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There is always a solution to the simplest of problems - trust the engineers to arrive at an answer - and this is the answer to what must be an increasing problem for commuters Kaneko Sangyo Co . Japan has developed a portable toilet ''Kurumarukun'' for use inside a car that totally conceals the user with a curtain.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 09:03 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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All big picture stuff - do we have the engineering "know how" to fix the problems ?? Air pollution is becoming one of the biggest dangers for the future of the planet, causing premature deaths of humans and damaging flora and fauna
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Friday 26 October, 2007 07:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Well you remember back in school when you learnt about the pythagoras theorem and it was pretty cool (well maybe you didn't but if you're an engineer you probably did). You learnt about the areas of triangles and all was good, then along came funky software and you probably haven't used it since.
Turns out this nifty little formula may be a little more useful than you expected. Run your eyes over this a few times and see how you can take advantage of this formula in investigating the relationships of many other items.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 05:10 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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I can't wait to read the road test - brummm, brummm, brummm Nissan and Renault hope to start selling a car for about $2,500 in India in around 2010 along with their local partner there, chief executive Carlos Ghosn said Oct. 24. "We have already practically decided all the attributes of the car," Ghosn said at the Tokyo Motor Show.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 03:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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Not by accident one might say - this is serious business - where to from here ? China has surged ahead of Germany for the first time to become the world's top exporter, prompting ever louder demands from the United States and Europe to revalue the yuan.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 01:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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Thats some serious laser - engineered to perform to the max The world's most powerful airborne laser capable of shooting down a ballistic missile is being re-assembled by Northrop Grumman and the US Missile Defence Agency (MDA).
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Friday 26 October, 2007 11:03 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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Now this IS news - a new technology manufacturing plant being set up in the US SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In the latest display of its manufacturing might, Intel Corp . is opening a new $3 billion factory in Arizona, widening its lead over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in the industry's switch to a new chip-making technique.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 09:10 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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Don't try to resist - don't even think about it - the machines will do it all for you Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind too.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 07:11 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
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Big dollars, Big projects, Big profits or losses - Steel is the basic engineering and construction material LAKSHMI MITTAL and Ratan Tata have a lot in common. They both come from Indian steelmaking families and both transformed the fortunes of their empires.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 05:06 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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All part of the big picture soltion with a sort of "back to the future" feel about it Both Brazilian sugarcane farmers who turn excess to ethanol and Chinese city dwellers who enjoy hot tea thanks to solar water heaters don't realize it but they are at the forefront of what an international panel of scientists hopes the future will look like thanks to engineering innovation
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Friday 26 October, 2007 03:01 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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Some like it hot, the design and engineering sizzle at the Tokyo Motor Show : which is a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a spandex mini-skirt... But the Tokyo Motor Show has always been about technology . with innovation and offers of more to come, for example Honda Motor Co. (7267.TO) Chief Executive Takeo Fukui said Wednesday his company will introduce the final, commercial version of its FCX fuel cell-powered car at the Los Angeles auto show next month.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 01:05 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
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It all sounds like a good idea to me - get everyone working together to engineer the goods and processes At the World Design Congress , the profession imagined how to bring designers and managers together on issues such as production and sustainability
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Thursday 25 October, 2007 11:00 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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Another development to promote innovation and design in engineering Polymer-based piezoelectric materials are currently the object of great interest in the world of industry because they enable their use in new applications in sectors such as transport and aeronautics, amongst others.
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Thursday 25 October, 2007 09:06 PM |
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