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 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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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  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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Spudcans are conical footings used as foundations for offshore platforms. Installation in soft marine soil forces them deeply into the seabed, inducin...

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In earth penetration events the projectile generally strikes the target at an oblique angle. As a result, the projectile is subjected to a multi-axial...

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