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Every day we read about U.S. manufacturing businesses that are exporting their production capacity and jobs to less developed countries where labor is less expensive. There are, however, many, less publicized, occasions where U.S. companies have invested in U.S. production capacity. These investments, driven by engineering and manufacturing skills here in the US, have come to be the basis for successful global companies. Sometimes this technology involves modern products like computers and pharmaceuticals, but sometimes the technology is applied to mankind's most traditional products and markets.
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Tuesday 23 September, 2008 02:57 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
IBM has hosted IBM Technology Day at The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) to share knowledge about the emerging technology trends significant to industry that can help improve employability skills among engineering students. The sessions covered new technology tends such as MashUps, Component business modelling, SOA, and others. This event is a part of IBM's efforts to collaborate with academia in India and build interest among students to pursue a broad range of careers in research, business and technology.
IBM has a broad strategy to prepare students for a more competitive workforce by arming them with skills for the 21st Century. Through IBM Technology days at IITs across India, the company will uncover new sources of talent by encouraging them to take risks and think differently to generate new innovative ideas.
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Monday 22 September, 2008 08:35 PM |
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Working Buildings 2008 announce today the launch of a major new feature for 2008, 'The Office of the Future', where visitors can get a glimpse of tomorrow's office, today. A major design project that's attracting huge attention, The Office of the Future is organised in partnership with BIM Products and Smartcomm and is sponsored by Dyson Airblade.
The brand new feature brings together two cutting edge technologies in a way never seen before with BIM (Building Information Model) applications for FM, M&E and energy analysis being run on the latest giant plasma screen technology from Sharp. Using a virtual 27-storey office tower, The Office of the Future allows attendees to view the latest office innovations and learn how to design sustainability into their offices. Located on stand D145 within Total Workplace Management, the feature will enable visitors to:
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Friday 19 September, 2008 03:43 AM |
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When it’s all said and done, your customer doesn’t care about your process. In the end, none of this matters if the design experience is wrong. Effective design establishes the emotional relationship you develop with a brand. Learn why design is more important than you think.
This is an excerpt from the FTPress book, Do You Matter?: How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company.
* Design is the “in” mantra—so what does this mean exactly, and why do you care?
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Wednesday 17 September, 2008 08:31 PM |
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A two-year grant is allowing researchers at UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering to unlock the secrets behind the enormous strength of the inner pearly layer (nacre) of the abalone shell so it can be replicated in man-made materials. The combined $416,000 grant from General Motors and the University of California Discovery Grant Program has been awarded to Professor David Kisailus, a materials scientist, and his lab in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
“The goal from GM’s point of view would be to create a light-weight, low-cost and tough composite material that could be used for automotive body panels,” Kisailus said. “The resulting material could withstand significant impacts without catastrophically failing. And, it would weigh significantly less than steel.”
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Tuesday 16 September, 2008 09:21 AM |
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Many engineers complain that there is a lack of talent among younger engineers, and that there are few people ready to take up the mantle of engineering excellence.
Eureka’s experience over the summer has been somewhat different. While it is true that engineering numbers are dwindling – and there has never been a greater need to boost the numbers of engineering students – there is certainly no lack of talent within design engineering.
We visited several ‘end of year’ design shows over the course of the summer. What you see here is a selection of ideas that caught the eye – there were many other ideas out there that we simply do not have space to print.
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Monday 15 September, 2008 12:02 PM |
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Look at an iPod or the award-winning new running shoe, the Free. Simple . . . cool . . . and there’s a lot of science and engineering here.
Innovative corporations like Nike and Apple know how to reach their school-age customers with products and services that expand minds and build bodies. They have a deep understanding of the needs and interests of young people - and a keen eye for design.
The business magazines are figuring out the lesson: Good innovation and design balance scientific analysis with artistic creativity. It’s this combination that leads to success in the global market.
Can you imagine a lengthy public shouting match over the next nano or swoosh color? Probably not, because they . . . Just Do It.
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Sunday 14 September, 2008 08:13 AM |
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If robots becoming smart enough to make other robots is a threat to humanity’s survival, what about robotics companies spawning other robotics companies?
Cheaper technology and changing demographics are making robotics startups more viable, and an entrepreneurial itch felt by several former iRobot Corp. employees is creating a diaspora of Massachusetts robot makers.
Barriers to entry for robotics companies are dropping. Technology costs less, more college graduates are entering the workforce with robotics experience, and seasoned employees are leaving established robotics companies to form their own startups. It’s a smaller-scale version of the Internet ecosystem created by alumni of Google and Amazon.com, says Cory Kidd, CEO of MIT robotics spinout Intuitive Automata Inc. “Both academia and industry are advancing the state of the art,” he said.
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Friday 12 September, 2008 10:34 AM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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Today, electronics product and design companies face the challenge of maintaining differentiation in a maturing and increasingly sophisticated market. They also face the need to protect product intellectual property (IP) in a globalized design and manufacturing environment, where hardware can be reverse-engineered as fast as new products can be produced. Companies today must find new and better ways of approaching the design problem. As a result, many engineers find themselves in the position of having to take on different roles within the design landscape in order to move up the value chain and remain relevant into the future.
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Friday 12 September, 2008 03:55 AM |
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So, the kids are back at school after another long, hot summer – assuming that they’ve spent it abroad, that is.
We’ve had yet another year of record GCSE and A-level pass rates and grades, so everything in the garden is rosy and the future is going to be safe in the hands of the country’s superbly educated youth.
That’s alright then. No, seriously, I mean it. Or I suppose what I mean is that it ought to be alright.
What concerns me is whether the best and the brightest will end up where we need them most – in the companies that actually generate the wealth and innovation upon which we depend – and those companies are, of course, manufacturing and engineering companies.
I know you’d expect me to bang the drum for manufacturing , but it is true – we make the money and everyone else just plays about with it. So, given that ours is one of the most important roles in society, as the wealth creators, why is it that we’re not beating would-be young manufacturers away with a stick?
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Thursday 11 September, 2008 11:51 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
STANFORD, Calif.-- The Stanford School of Engineering today announced that Jen-Hsun Huang, the founder and chief executive officer of leading visual computing company NVIDIA and a Stanford electrical engineering alumnus, will donate $30 million to help build a modern and sustainable destination for education and research, the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center.
The 130,000-square-foot building, already under construction and expected to be completed in the first half of 2010, is designed to encourage a vibrant academic and social atmosphere for people throughout the Stanford community.
"The School of Engineering at Stanford is a major source of intellectual energy for Silicon Valley and beyond," said Huang, who earned his master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford in 1992. "I am proud to help the school build a headquarters that embodies its plans for the future -- a place that encourages people to come together to create the next generation of knowledge and technology."
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Thursday 11 September, 2008 01:46 PM |
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"Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business"
Jeff Howe's new book belongs in the same section of your library as "The Wisdom of Crowds," "The Starfish and the Spider," "Wikinomics," "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" and Seth Godin's forthcoming "Tribes." The subject is group intelligence, or as Howe, a writer for Wired and other publications, calls it, "crowdsourcing."
It's not the greatest name in the world, but it'll do. More accurately, it's "aggregated intelligence" since it's really the product of a bunch of individuals and not a "crowd." And it's at its most powerful when disparate and diverse elements and interests come together (virtually) to solve or just work on a single issue.
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Thursday 11 September, 2008 09:42 AM |
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Students in a recently developed design class at the University of Cincinnati are meeting and working at the bottom of the university’s Olympic-sized pool.
It’s all part of a new Extreme Environments design course. The point of the underwater exercises is the same as that for any site visit: to first experience an environment and then design for it, according to Brian F. Davies, associate professor of architecture in UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and initiator of the Extreme Environments design class.
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 09:55 AM |
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German innovation and technical excellence have long been lauded, but few have been privy to the latest developments in German research.
These developments will be under the spotlight at the Insite 2008 exhibition, thanks to an impressive gathering of Germany's best higher education and research institutes at a specially designed pavilion.
Facilitated by the German ministry of education and research and the German Academic Exchange Service (Daad), the German pavilion will include presentations by the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel, the University of Duisburg Essen, the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy, GFZ Potsdam, the University of Witten-Herdecke's Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management, the Rheinisch-Westfälische University of Aachen, the Fraunhofer Institute, the German Development Institute Bonn, the joint projects Biota and Inkaba yeAfrica, and Baden-Württemberg International.
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 09:52 AM |
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BRITAIN needs more engineers. It is a widely held belief and yet we remain unable to bridge the gap between intention and action. Britain trades on the triumphs of its industrial forefathers while failing to safeguard its engineering future.
Only by introducing young people to the excitement and creativity of science and technology can we stay in the race. Snobbery and government bureaucracy stand in the way of progress. On the one hand industry is invited to play its part in education and on the other government red tape reins in momentum.
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Sunday 7 September, 2008 10:36 AM |
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On Saturday, ScienceDebate 2008 and Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA) announced that Barack Obama answered a fourteen-part questionnaire that they put together along with several other scientifically oriented organizations. Major props to ScienceDebate, SEA, and these other organizations for making this happen and to Barack Obama for thoroughly answering these fourteen questions.
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Saturday 6 September, 2008 08:06 AM |
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The one-year Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership (PGPEX-VLM), conducted by Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), is nearing its successful completion.
Participants are getting ready for the international study visit early July where they visit facilities of Japan Honda Saitama Factory, Kao logistics center, Hino Motors, Sharp, Yao factory, Patlite, Kasai Recycling Systems, Toyota, Panasonic House of History, Panasonic HRD College, and Toyota commemorative museum of industry and technology.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 04:38 AM |
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As you drive through the security barriers and past Route de Albert Einstein towards the old canteen where, it is said, many of the greatest leaps in our understanding of the universe had their genesis over a cup of strong Swiss coffee and a Gauloise, you cannot fail but sigh with relief that, in one tiny corner of the world, pure exploration continues, relatively unsullied.
Cern is noble, essential and precious; an almost utopian village of ten thousand physicists and engineers from 85 countries, formed by a recovering Europe after the second world war
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Monday 30 June, 2008 10:00 PM |
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
Engineering and medicine still remain popular choices for students in India, but a quiet initiative is underway to get recognition for a subject of study that’s increasingly gaining prominence in industry, but remains neglected in academics — design.
“Design is a creative course that looks at constant innovation and new ideas. It provides the student with a variety of skills,” says Ravi Poovaiah, co-ordinator of the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Powai, which is planning to send a proposal to the Ministry of Human Resources Development to allow introduction of design as a subject of study at the undergraduate level in art colleges across the country.
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Monday 30 June, 2008 04:10 AM |
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A Government of India initiative to share Indian expertise in Education and Medicine connecting 53 African Nations • First of its kind System Integration project for HCL Infosystems in Africa. • The e-Network will enable Tele-Education, Tele-Medicine, Video-conferencing and VOIP services; connecting 7 Indian universities & 12 super specialty hospitals to 5 African regional universities, 5 super specialty hospitals and 53 learning centers all over Africa
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