Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, has asked taxpayers to underwrite $42 million in Northeast Indiana Projects next year, including money to widen Gump and Flutter roads, install a partial “green” roof of plants on a middle school, develop a program to teach Arabic and Chinese to high school students and expand the medical research program at Grace College.
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Sunday 5 April, 2009 01:42 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
Goran Konjevod needs only a blank piece of paper to begin enlightening you about some basic principles of mathematics, science and engineering. Plus you could learn to make something kind of cool.
He uses the ancient art of origami – paper folding – to show students how intricate structures can be fashioned by folding paper into various patterns, and how the process demonstrates fundamentals of geometry and engineering design.
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Tuesday 31 March, 2009 03:24 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
GO back a few years , and working in a Shipyard would have been considered a job for men only.
But with the industry now looking for new recruits as order books fill up, both men and women are being encouraged to consider a career in shipbuilding. ..
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Tuesday 31 March, 2009 01:34 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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Education researcher Jenefer Husman is probing the concept of mental time travel through “future thinking” to understand how personal motivation and a vision of the future affect students’ abilities to make connections between their college coursework and career goals.
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Wednesday 18 March, 2009 12:43 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
The list, compiled by a panel of 20 experts from the British Science Association , reveal the most exciting innovations that failed to live up to expectations.
It follows the Association's list of ten innovations that did manage to change the way we live our lives, compiled as part of National Science and Engineering Week.
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Monday 16 March, 2009 12:43 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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Engineering is not seen as creative industry. Ask a child to draw an engineer and you'll get a caricature: a man in dungarees and a hard hat, clutching a toolbox. In other words, a fixer rather than a maker. Now, there's nothing wrong with fixers. But there's an unfortunate stigma attached to engineering - of the geek, creatively redundant compared to the artist. And it's a lie.
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Tuesday 24 February, 2009 07:15 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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It was several years late, and many millions of dollars over budget. The technical problems were horrendous, and its launch was marred by unusually nasty political rows over everything from critical engineering issues, to whether or not its name should end with an "e."
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Monday 23 February, 2009 05:39 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
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What if your leadership decided to design your office space so that it would increase, in their view, the degree of collaboration and innovation among the work force, only to make that investment of millions of dollars and find out that those results were not achieved, and there was significant resistance to the change? What would it have cost the company? A lot.
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Wednesday 18 February, 2009 09:01 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Barefoot elders , children off from school and women dressed in their very finest gathered in the community center in the village of Sengalpaddai in the southern part of India when Rowan University came to call this winter.
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Their attention riveted on two grain crushers, fairly simple mechanical devices designed and constructed by an engineering professor and her students that may make a difference in the villagers' lives.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 03:02 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Inside JJ Churchill's engineering factory , the scene is one of controlled commotion as hightechnology machine tools turn out parts for diesel generators and aero- engines. The company, based in Market Bosworth, a small town in the English Midlands, was set up in 1937 by Walter Churchill, a pilot-cum-engineer who during the second world war flew Spitfires and Hurricanes from a landing strip next to the plant. The family can trace a link to Winston Churchill.
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Monday 9 February, 2009 07:48 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Texas A&M University , along with eight other astronomical research organizations from three continents, has signed the Founders’ Agreement to construct and operate the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) at Las Campanas Observatory in the Andes Mountains of Chile.
“We are poised to enter the age of the greatest advances in astronomy – the discovery of Earth-like planets capable of life, as well as the understanding of the origin and evolution of our universe,” said Nicholas B. Suntzeff, director of Texas A&M’s astronomy program and holder of the Mitchell-Heep-Munnerlyn Endowed Chair in Observational Astronomy in the Texas A&M Department of Physics. “ When we map the universe to its beginning or find that Earth-like planet, I want Texas A&M astronomers and physicists to be there making these discoveries.”
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Sunday 8 February, 2009 10:53 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Orson Welles said film-making was the biggest electric train set a boy ever had. He was wrong. A new high-speed train line would be, if the boy or girl grew up to engineer it.
But in Britain, the train set is broken and has been packed away in the attic. We're not proud of industry and we certainly don't want our kids to grow up to be engineers. It's a tragedy. It never used to be this way. We need to rediscover the power of engineering, its impact and contribution. It can stimulate young minds and it can stimulate the economy.
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Sunday 8 February, 2009 07:46 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
A crisis is just another hurdle to leap for the sportswear giant. Chief executive Jochen Zeitz explains why he's racing ahead with innovation and sponsorship
Jochen Zeitz has three and a half offices. We meet in the London one above Heal's on Tottenham Court Road from where Zeitz runs Puma, the luxury, high-fashion, sportswear brand, when he's in town.
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Sunday 1 February, 2009 10:04 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
The concept of engineering has existed since ancient times beginning with the development of pulleys, levers and the wheel. It is an integral part of our society and our daily lives. Every product we use, even the food we eat is influenced by engineering design.
It has been said engineering is a key driver of human development as engineering design has the potential to make modifications and changes to our environment, our society and the economies of cities, regions and countries.
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Saturday 31 January, 2009 03:20 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
THE fastest car in the world is to be built in the United Kingdom. Not only will it attempt to break the land speed record but the project will also provide a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers”.
Known as Bloodhound, the new car will be raced in the Nevada desert and powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine.
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Tuesday 27 January, 2009 07:54 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
Being a work-at-home dad offered George Stydahar many perks, from cooking breakfast for his two girls to being there when they got home from school. But brushing their hair in the morning was not one of them.
Both Hannah and Emma had long, fine hair, the kind that tangles easily. Every morning became a struggle between Stydahar's desire to send his daughters off into the world looking neat and well-groomed and his anguish over their shrieks of pain when the hairbrush caught on a snarl.
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Monday 26 January, 2009 02:14 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
A Recession Is a Perfect Time to Get Ahead by Developing Fresh Products; Here's How to Kick-start the Process
Even as budgets are frozen and costs cut, companies still demand fresh thinking. Looking for a new and better way to come up with brilliant ideas? Start by innovating your innovation workshop.
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Monday 19 January, 2009 11:14 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
FROM the word go , Makerere's team of young undergraduate engineers had no money for their research. Never mind the fact that theirs was the only consortium accepted from the African continent, to join the Vehicle Design Summit (VDS) in Torino, Italy.
The Vehicle Design Summit is an initiative to develop an international design team capable of solving global problems in the public domain.
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Monday 19 January, 2009 04:11 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
Everyone knows that the USC Viterbi School’s entering freshmen are smart, but are they capable of performing miracles? Hossein Hashemi’s Freshman Academy was - and did - by finding a way to walk on water for their final project.
They gathered in December at the USC McDonald’s Olympic swimming pool for their final presentations after spending the second half of the semester designing flotation platforms and devices to achieve a seemingly impossible feat.
“One of the greatest things about this class is that it helps you make the huge transition from school to college life,” said Freshman Academy coach Rebecca Sekar, a biomedical engineering major who was in the academy last year. “These students are definitely creative. They put a lot of time and effort into their projects.”
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Thursday 15 January, 2009 01:38 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
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Physics always seems to want to come out to play . Just when this most technical of sciences starts to seem impossibly arcane, it goes goofy on you, as it did last year with the announcement that physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, had developed a tiny working model of an invisibility cloak. This week, the physics magic shop announced yet another wonder: levitation. Really.
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