eDrawings is the only CAD viewer on iPad that allows you to view native eDrawings files as well as native SolidWorks® parts, assemblies and drawin...

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In our interview with Jeff Lieberman we talk about how science and engineering are intertwined with art.

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The event attracted thousands of students, teachers and parents to the Festival where they saw over 3,000 exhibits, watched over 100 stage shows and connected with over 30 engineering authors.

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Engineers tend to be understated.  That’s why these stage shows are so cool.  There will be over 50 shows at The USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington DC at the end of April.

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Renewable Technologies and our Energy Future - An Interview with Tom Murphy   Rising geopolitical tensions and high oil prices are continuing t...

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Appearances By Science Celebrities, Performers and Entrepreneurs Will Take “Star Gazing” to Another Level During the USA Science & Eng...

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To all the Members of ENGINEERING.com and the world at large, I do solemnly swear and affirm that on 02/25/2012 while in the University Testing Lab at UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada, a new world record was set.

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Entries now being accepted for the 2012 Kavli Science Video Contest  The Kavli Science Video Contest was founded as a USA Science & Enginee...

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On Thursday the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the first nuclear power plant in the US since the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania ba...

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There is perhaps no more controversial energy source after nuclear than "hydraulic fracturing," or "fracking," of subterranean shale deposits containing pockets of natural gas. 

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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. 

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As we start a new year, consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer. 

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Have you ever thought backwards in time about how you learned things in the past? Or are you more like me when you think about how you are going to learn things in the future? In these fast paced days in my life, I am pre-occupied with the future and how I am going to teach the newer generation of technologists. There is a lot available to teachers today like, textbooks, videos, online distance learning and of course the traditional classroom and curriculum. However, change is coming into the educational scene.

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2011 saw huge advances in solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and these advancements will continue into 2012.  

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Researchers have reduced the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a one-coat quantum dot solar paint. 

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 Source: http://shaunwmartin.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/501-digital-divide-vs-digital-inequality/ In the book, “Computer ethics,&rd...

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We know that two ideal clocks permanently at rest relative to each other can be synchronized by means of the Einstein method.(1) Simply stated it mean...

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PageRank is the technique used by Google to determine importance of page on the web. It considers all incoming links to a page as votes for PageRank. ...

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One of the great challenges of space exploration is that it is just so costly.  NASA now reports that it is planning only 1 or 2 missions for nex...

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Canada has announced its intention to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), sandbagging the other signatories to the convention.

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Economic South Asian superpower India has firmly embraced solar power, advancing the target date by five years for selling solar-generated electricity at the same rate as electricity generated by fossil fuel plants, from 2022 to 2017.

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 The U.S. biofuel industry has long been stymied by the lack of USDA federal crop insurance, leaving only the most adventurous farmers willing to...

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Americans looking south of the Rio Grande tend to forget, if they ever knew, that Mexico is, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, now America's second largest source of imports.

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HSMWorks Breaks the Mold.   By Corporal Willy December 2nd 2011           Really good things don’t ...

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Back in July Larry Page became Google's new chief executive and immediately began a campaign to reign in Google's projects and focus their resources.

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Last Thursday, it was reported that an experiment showing a particle traveling faster than the speed of light had been successfully repeated.  Th...

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Biomimicry is the examination of features and elements in plant and animal life, and their application in solving human problems.

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On 30 May, in the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would close all of its 18 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, which produce about 28 percent of the country's electricity.

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Seismic activity detected in April and May near Blackpool, England are now attributed to a nearby gas well operated by Cuadrilla Resources, and the hydraulic fracturing process that is carried out there.

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An unlikely player in the development of robotic technology has emerged. Microsoft has revealed their new autonomous robot named Eddie, who can track people in a room, snap a picture of them, and upload the image directly to Flickr.

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Researchers, led by Praveen Ashok at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, have developed a technology for quickly analyzing whiskey and its authenticity.

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The practice of injecting water into deep rock formations causes earthquakes, both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Geological Survey have concluded.

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In Moscow on Friday, six volunteers exited a virtual spacecraft they were sequestered in for 520 days, marking the conclusion of a joint experiment by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems.

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Hi guys,   I'm a journalist writing from Engineeringbecause.com. We're an Engineering news and networking site. Today we have a story t...

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In 2003, Egypt had its wind potential assessed and a wind atlas published. It showed that with wind speeds of 7-10 meters per second, almost the entire nation was ideal for wind power.

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Hello everyone!  We here at EngineeringBecause.com recently interviewed some engineers studying at Queen Mary. They gave us a perspective into w...

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On 28 October Air China conducted its first trial flight of a passenger jet powered by a mix of biofuel and traditional aviation fuel.

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4G mobile technology is the name given to the next generation of mobile devices such as cell phones. It became available from at least one provider in several parts of the US in 2009. There is not yet an agreed industry standard for what constitutes 4G mobile, so for now it is merely a marketing term.

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To most aspiring engineers, a test lab is a place where parts are tested against a specification and the results are black or white.

 

This week, Pawl expores the various shades of grey, the politics and the ethics of test labs...

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Robin Butler of Sherborne Sensors examines the series of sensors available in the marketplace and explores the applications they can be deployed in.

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Israel Electric Corp. has signed contracts to build a $1.3 billion 240 megawatt solar energy project in China.

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THIS ARTICLE EXPLAINS YOU THAT HOW PLC WORKS, BASIC STRUCTURE OF PLC.

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    Article No. :- 1 Date:- 28-9-2011 Time:- 1:00 PM Subject:- “ SUPERCOMPUTING”   Hello to all, Welcome to the &ld...

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  Efficiency of energy conversion is defined by Betz Law There are plenty of propeller design and calculate tools around that apply t...

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The University of Minnesota Formula SAE Team found that FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) is a powerful tool and teamed with RedEye's rapid prototyp...

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The very day we started college it struck all of us guy engineers.  As we walked into our first class surrounded by oil stained hands and stone temple pilot t-shirts we asked ourselves: Why are there mostly men?

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I was wondering if anyone can help me out.  I have an original book "The Channel Tunnel" that is a proposal/design plan from Becht...

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Failure of pharmaceutical packaging incurs the risk of negative health outcomes and expensive product recalls. Pre-filled syringes represent a growing...

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The solder joints of surface-mount electronic devices may fail because of low-cycle fatigue. Combined with differences in thermal expansion properties...

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