Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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In July, on a typically oppressive summer day in Washington, D.C., roughly a thousand college students from across the country gathered at a Marriott hotel with plans to change the world . Despite being sponsored by the Center for American Progress, a moderate think tank founded by one of Bill Clinton’s former chiefs of staff, John Podesta, the student group—called Campus Progress—leans decidedly farther to the left. At booths outside the main auditorium, young activists handed out pamphlets opposing nuclear power, high pay for CEOs, excessive profits for oil companies, harsh prison sentences for drug users, and Israeli militarism in Gaza and the West Bank
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 04:27 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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Words are hard to describe what artist Chris Lutter-Gardella creates by using trash. Residents in the St. Croix Valley are beginning to experience his unique style and his provocative mission statement. “To improve the health of human communities and the Earth by teaching people the process of transforming waste materials into imaginative art.”
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Sunday 22 June, 2008 02:12 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Israel's prowess in high-tech and healthcare goes back more than the State's 60 years, and is powered by many motives.Joseph Morgenstern Israel’s high-technology scene is far from being 60 years old. For nearly 20 years of its existence Israel imported all of its technology needs, mostly from France. Its proudest achievement was drip irrigation. Israel’s exports consisted mainly of citrus fruits. Its universities did not concentrate on sciences and engineering.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 02:40 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
Few innovators, creators, thinkers and dreamers have had the flair of Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion.
He was flamboyant, nearly to a fault, a playboy who lived life to the fullest and enjoyed the sense of adventure nearly as much as he loved finding a better invention.
What a perfect mix, that energy and engineering foresight.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 10:38 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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What will the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic torches look like and how will the cauldron showcase the Olympic Flame at BC Place Stadium on February 12, 2010? While the answers will remain a surprise for months to come, Bombardier has received the honour of designing and manufacturing the iconic torches and cauldrons for the 2010 Winter Games.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 01:28 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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This year the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) successfully conducted the Common Entrance Test and CET counselling is now on in full swing. The counselling for students who opted for the engineering stream has just started and will go on until all the seats are distribute.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 04:16 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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In Silicon Valley , the stars have long been charismatic marketing visionaries and cool-nerd software wizards. By contrast, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers were traditionally regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 06:58 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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The new higher-education academy launched this month to solve the malaise affecting the engineering sector has no money and no buildings. When placed alongside other academies we're used to reading about, it ain't much cop.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 12:45 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
Ever since man discovered oil as a source of energy, the importance of and the demand for oil has only increased. The emergence of oil not only saw the gradual demise of the 'coal age', but its effectiveness as a source of energy caused yet another industrial revolution, enabling mankind to improve their lives with new technological inventions powered by oil.
Consequently, almost every aspect of today's life, whether it is travelling, working, or cooking your simple meal, is inextricably linked with oil, coming in all forms like petrol, diesel and gas.
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Thursday 12 June, 2008 02:47 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
To all those motorists snarled in traffic when a Route 35 drawbridge linking Old Bridge and Sayreville jammed in the heat Sunday, cheer up. It could have been worse.
The car could have died. The air conditioner at home could have conked out. Monday morning train delays could have made your commute unbearable.
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Wednesday 11 June, 2008 12:00 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
COOKEVILLE -- Former TTU professor and soon-to-be-former Cookeville resident V.C. Venkatesh has just co-authored a seminal book in the field of engineering. Released only last month by McGraw-Hill, "Precision Engineering" is already on its way to becoming a key text in engineering programs worldwide.
His new book explains the state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques on the micro and nano levels that are required to create ultra-precise components.
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Sunday 8 June, 2008 10:33 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
A recurring theme in the government's skills strategy is that much of Britain's future national prosperity will depend on our wits, our imagination and our creativity. We have to grow a "knowledge economy", in which skills and knowhow, rather than the attributes once needed for mass production, are paramount.
Do ministers believe this? When it comes to giving out the hard cash, do they follow through from all their speeches and policy papers? Some of those in the creative industries are not convinced. When it comes, for instance, to expanding the number of apprenticeships, they suspect that ministers are still more likely to put their money into older, "safer" sectors of the economy.
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Wednesday 4 June, 2008 12:10 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Here’s a funny article from the Boston Globe on the Larry Summers Quandary: Why have women professors made so much more progress at Harvard’s Law, Business, and Medical schools than in its mathematics and engineering departments? It’s a good article, but what’s amusing and depressing is how hard the journalist has to work to explain concepts that should be bleeding obvious to any college student, much less the college professors who will be most professionally interested in this topic.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 10:46 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Did you know Trivia - The UK government has launched a £200m training project in a bid to tackle UK skills shortages and avoid relying on migrant workers to fill the gaps.
John Denham, secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills, announced the funding will pay for specialist training colleges focusing on construction, IT, finance, science and engineering industries over the next three years.
click this link to read more
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 10:37 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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"A story in the New York Times reports that Japan, a country that rebuilt itself as a technological power after World War II, now faces an increasing shortage of college graduates with degrees in science and engineering. Says the article: 'By one ministry of internal affairs estimate, the digital technology industry here is already short almost half a million engineers.' The article goes on to point out that the overall trend of waning interest in science and technology has been going on for 'almost two decades' and that the shortage is made worse by the traditional reluctance of Japanese companies to hire and use foreign workers. The US has had a similar trend for quite some time: 'Undergraduate engineering enrollment declined through most of the 1980s and 1990s, rose from 2000 through 2003, and declined slightly in recent years.'"
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 12:34 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Castrol Professional is designed to help dealerships increase their after sales profit. A number of programmes have been developed to target a variety of dealership revenue streams and help them maximise customer potential in more than just oil. When Castrol teamed up with some of the biggest names in football to support their UEFA EURO 2008™ sponsorship, they discovered that there are more similarities between running a successful dealership and succeeding in football than you might think…
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Monday 19 May, 2008 05:46 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
A growing crisis threatens to engulf British businesses because of the slump in the number of manufacturing and engineering graduates coming out of UK universities, the head of the CBI warned yesterday. Richard Lambert, the director general of the CBI, said that major UK companies were already struggling to recruit the engineers they desperately needed and that foreign businesses would no longer want to invest in the UK if they could not rely on finding the skilled workforce they need here.
"About three-quarters of our engineering companies expect a shortfall in recruitment this year," Mr Lambert said. "More companies are having to recruit internationally to fill the gaps but other countries have exactly the same problems and sometimes the quality is not what we are looking for.
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Monday 19 May, 2008 03:44 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
Erika Kangas and Iva Shallvari are the engineers of their own career fates , meaning there was no hemming and hawing about how they would apply their math and science skills in university.
Since childhood, the Ontario residents have had their sights set on careers in engineering — goals that run contrary to the norm, as statistics show declining numbers of female students in Canadian undergraduate university programs.
They don't know each other, but Ms. Kangas, an aerospace engineering student at Ryerson University in Toronto, and Ms. Shallvari, studying mechanical engineering at the University of Windsor, have a lot in common.
....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 10:06 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
With the recent escalation in food prices globally, the Vanguard America correspondent in Houston, for the Oil and Technology conference talked to Anthony Ndah, Nigerian engineer with expertise in energy resources and petroleum engineering.
Tony was the best in his Geology class at Ibadan University and graduated with Bachelor of Science in Petroleum engineering and proceeded to Texas University (A&M) with a Master degree in petroleum engineering. His scope of experience extends from field level to management. He has worked extensively in the U. S. Gulf Coast region and Alaska; Caribbean and Brazil, for the last three years in the prolific oil producing areas of Siberia and Azerbaijan and Egypt and Algeria.
....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 03:33 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
The Iron Man flick pressed my buttons from start to finish. Specifically, that little gadget nerd button over my heart, right where Tony Stark's arc reactor plugs in. On one hand, Stark's legendary womanizing, alcoholism and vanity are way underdeveloped. (Disappointingly, Downy Jr. looks too sober.) But if you're at all interested in the future of exoskeletons, holographic 3D CAD, advanced heads-up displays and stuff blowing up under the recoil-free power of repulsor beams, you're going to want to see this movie, well, just to see it.
....click the link to read more
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