At the end of April the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted a report on the environmental lifecycle assessment of the lithium ion b...

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Credit: Ken Block. Four years ago, American LeMans kicked off its first green racing season. The program, which requires teams to use alt...

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Credit: USDAgov New research shows that the U.S. has now matched Mexico as an attractive location for manufacturing in terms of...

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Rare earth magnets used in electronics. Credit: MagTrust Magnet Group Co. Few things have had as big an impact on modern technology as rare earth e...

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The U.S. currently imports more than 80% of the lithium it uses, with the silvery metal winding up in batteries from cell phones to electric cars.

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High Tech & Low Tech  By Corporal Willy, April 20th, 2013      The world has witnessed an extraordinary event ove...

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Photos showing the progress of the East Side Access tunnel that will connect the Long Island Rail Road to access Grand Central Terminal for the first time.

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The End of the Shale Era: Big Shift in Junior Oil Exploration – Interview with Chris Cooper The oil and gas game can be a tricky one for juni...

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Last month Beijing's air pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organization.

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The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine is reporting on Feb 12, 2013 a partial collapse of wall fragments and lighting over turbine unit ...

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As engineers continue to push the boundaries of scientific invention and exploration, along with great achievements unfortunately come terrible failures too. Fortunately, from mistakes lessons are learned but sometimes only once a high price has been paid.

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Today, getting a pipeline built is not so easy - there are too many environmental concerns and the industry has become highly polarized.

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As we begin a new year we wanted to take a look at the current energy landscape and see what the future holds for the global economy, America's oil an...

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Have our wishes been answered? Scientists have found an oil field which contains 200 times more hydrocarbons than there is water on the whole of the Earth.

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The energy grid is vulnerable to anyone with basic weapons and know-how.

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Certainly the folks at Gazprom are having a good snicker, reveling in the mockery that has been made of what should have been a landmark Ukraine-Spain...

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Podcast: Download Chris and Jeff talk about how one might go about becoming an engineering “superstar.” Neither Jeff or Chris ha...

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Podcast: Download In this episode, Chris and Jeff discuss engineers who find employment on a project-to-project basis, rather than signing on for a...

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Podcast: Download What obligations do engineers have to others? Where do the lines of legality, morality, and ethics intersect? Chris and Jeff dis...

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Podcast: Download This episode was initially posted to The Engineering Commons  It sometimes makes sense to protect one's creative ideas. Chri...

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Podcast: Download This story was originally posted on TheEngineeringCommons.com Software is an important component in the toolkit of nearly eve...

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Podcast: Download In this episode, Chris and Jeff discuss STEM education with two educators/engineers in the field who are working to help kids lear...

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Scientists at CERN today announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the elusive particle that gives everything in the universe its mass.

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Question:  Can you make a record-breaking structure from ordinary materials?

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Sometimes time is the most important constraint in the design process. Today we'll show you how a team of college students re-imagined their design process to build their most successful race car to date.

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Google may have a bad track record on privacy practices, but when it comes to green, the internet giant is clean, racking up over $850 million in inve...

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Aston Martin has been using their race cars to push design in their consumer models since its inception. By using lessons learned on the track, Aston Martin Racing has redefined automotive design and development.

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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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