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 In August, NASA’s unmanned  Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center and engineers eagerly anticipate the first mission of NASA’s Mars Scout Program. Phoenix will reach the Red planet in May 2008, and is part of NASA’s strategy to “follow the water” on Mars

 Smart Manufacturing,  Smart Engineering - more than one way to skin a cat --

 Oil has rocketed to an all-time high of $97 a barrel in New York on fears of terrorist attacks on pipelines in the Middle East and falling crude inventories in the United States.

Tank engineering is not new - check out the creations from history -

It all started in the Fourteenth Century. We have a record of a "pre-tank" machine, called "Fighting Unicorn".

The above link takes you to part one of "Tanks" - If you liked part one - I'm sure that you just can't wait to see part two  

 Architects and structural engineers face more challenges as --

 For traffic engineers,  there is always a new challenge --

For the cars and trucks crammed together on the elevated highway cutting through downtown, it's a slow crawl. On the smaller roads below, traffic is rolling at a steady 10 to 15 kilometers per hour in what looks like a more traditional Chinese street scene

 The idea that companies will succeed in the 21st century by drawing in the brightest minds from everywhere and engineering solutions, not just from within their own four walls, has gathered momentum over the last decade.

 Sometimes it just happens and other times it needs to be made to happen

 Business, Engineering and Design programs are shaping a new generation of creative managers

Sanyo Electric Co Ltd exhibited a Li-ion rechargeable battery module for hybrid vehicles and a Li-ion rechargeable battery cell for plug-in hybrid vehicles at the 40th Tokyo Motor Show.

 Scientists and bio engineers could see a changing landscape as --

 The biodiesel production from vegetable oils or animal fats produces a large percentage (as much as 10%) of glycerine as a by-product.

We all have our favorites,  this is a wide ranging list of gadgets and engineering improvements - did they change your world ?   -   101 gadgets that changed the world

As junior Nick Frey sat in his fluid mechanics course last spring, he was thinking about bicycles -- but he wasn’t daydreaming.  Engineering principles applied to sporting equipment

 Engineers and scientists will "see the light" when ----

For its first week in space, China's lunar orbiter circled Earth in elongated orbits with ever-increasing high points. Engineers looked on, as like a child in a swing pumping both legs to fly higher, the Chang'e spacecraft repeatedly fired its small thrusters to test its steering before the big jump all the way to the moon.

 NEW YORK: Now that the price of coal is at a historic low relative to oil , there is no stopping consumers and producers alike from engineering Al Gore's nightmare. 

It has been around for a long time and still seems to have plenty of life left in it yet as a source of energy

Nanotechnology could revolutionize the natural gas industry across the whole engineering lifecycle from extraction to pollution reduction or be an enormous missed opportunity, claim two industry experts writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nanotechnology.

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 The hull of a modern grand prix ocean racer depends on carbon fibre for its structural integrity but it is a more humble material – steel – which is at the engineering heart of the matter for boat builders such as Eric Goetz, responsible for PUMA Ocean Racing’s Volvo Open 70.