Entries for 'The Engineer'

$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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Review of online LEED education providers. Engineers can compare online LEED providers before deciding which one to use.

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We test Incandescents, CFLs and LEDs It's not simple to buy light bulbs these days. What's with all these choices? The latest energy bill passed by th...

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Greenwashing is the practice of promoting the green attributes of a product to increase sales, even though that product may have not earned the touted...

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