Weekly Industry Crib Sheet: Boeing Forecasts Double Demand in 20 Years
Boeing has revised its 20-year outlook up to reflect air travel resiliency and expected increased demand for its airliners. In the week before the Bo...

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Brookings: “Blue-Collar STEM” is Overlooked, Underfunded
A new comprehensive report by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program underscores that there is hidden STEM talent in blue-collar jobs, and emphasiz...

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Can We Eliminate Nuclear Waste by Turning it into Energy?
The question of what role nuclear power will play in this country’s energy future is filled with uncertainty. On one hand, it is the only low-ca...

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Collaboration is Key to Managing Quality
Quality management is something every company could be doing better. And no matter how big or small the company, it can probably improve quality manag...

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GDP Numbers Show A Down Environment For Gov't Funded Research
The first quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was revised up last week to a 2.4 percent annual growth rate. The increase is slightly less than econom...

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Self-Driving Vehicles Could Change the Way We Think of Cars
Every major auto manufacturer and top-tier supplier is working on self-driving autos and they may be here sooner than you think. As technology in...

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New Energy Secretary Calls for Collaboration with Manufacturers
Last week, Dr. Ernest Moniz was sworn in as the nation’s 13th Secretary of Energy. Moniz was confirmed by the Senate in a unanimous vote on May ...

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Oak Ridge National Lab Seeking Uses for EV Batteries After They’re no Longer in Cars
Credit: ORNL.gov Among the many issues that electric vehicles face in their quest to be adopted by millions of Americans is how long their batterie...

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Hydropower: Solar and Wind’s Big Brother is Picking Up a Bigger Share of the Load
Hydropower station on the Hoover Dam. Credit: Vichaya Kiatying-Angsulee. These days, when we talk about renewable energy, we mostly talk about wind...

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EPA Study Focuses On How to Make Greener EV Batteries
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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High Compression Ratios and Ethanol Blends Combine to Make a Super-efficient Car
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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U.S. to Match China in Manufacturing Attractiveness by 2015
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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Recycling Rare Earth Metals Presents Challenges, Opportunities
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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New Wyoming Lithium Deposit could Meet all U.S. Demand
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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$8.4B East Side Access Tunnel Photos
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
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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Beijing's Pollution Alarms Neighbors
Last month Beijing's air pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organization.

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Partial Collapse at Chernobyl Reactor
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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Five Biggest Engineering Disasters
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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Can Leak Detection End the Pipeline Impasse?
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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Scientists Find Mega-Oil Field ...1,300 Light Years Away
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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US Power Grid Vulnerable to Just About Everything
The energy grid is vulnerable to anyone with basic weapons and know-how.

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Ukraine Crushed in $1.1bn Fake Gas Deal
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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The Engineering Commons #14: Superstars
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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The Engineering Commons #13: Free Agency
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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The Engineering Commons #12: Ethics
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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The Engineering Commons #11: Patents
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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The Engineering Commons #10: Software Carpentry
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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Engineering Commons #9 - STEM Education
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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Higgs Boson Particle Discovered
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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Experiments in Lighter Stronger Structures
Question:  Can you make a record-breaking structure from ordinary materials?

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Designing Success into the Design Process
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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Just How Green is Google
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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Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday
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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