The Engineer
May 2005 Online
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ABB awarded $24 million
31 May 2005
ABB has won contracts worth $24 million from Norway’s Hydro Aluminum for power electronics and power supply systems for two smelting plants.
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An extra €137 million for Bombardier
31 May 2005
Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has received an additional order worth €137 million for 78 double-deck coaches and nine locomotives.
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An illuminating study
31 May 2005
The use of white light-emitting diodes as a replacement for kerosene lamps common in the developing world could potentially save tens of billions of dollars per year worldwide.
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B/E Aerospace awarded $50 million
31 May 2005
Air Canada has selected B/E to perform a fleet-wide upgrade of the airline's seating on 143 aircraft.
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Brain cells at work
31 May 2005
Scientists in the US have successfully applied molecular sensors to view changes in brain chemical levels.
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Creating crystals
31 May 2005
Materials scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have devised a new technique to make thin, crystal-like materials for electronic devices. The technique could supplement current methods of growing crystals with an additional benefit of producing materials in sizes and shapes not now possible.
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Holland gets offshore wind farm
31 May 2005
Shell and Dutch energy company Nuon have signed the final contracts that will facilitate the joint construction of Holland’s first offshore wind farm.
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Home wireless
31 May 2005
Cambridge Consultants has been chosen as a technology provider to ITI Techmedia's £6.7million project focused on household ultra-wideband communications technology.
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Selling wax
31 May 2005
Honeywell announced today that it has sold its industrial wax operations in the United States to The International Group for an undisclosed sum.
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Selling testing
27 May 2005
Aeroflex, the automated test systems manufacturer, is to buy the test and measurement division of wireless technology vendor UbiNetics, for £46m.
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Drug deal
27 May 2005
BioXell, the Italian biopharmaceutical company, has signed an exclusive, worldwide license agreement with Merck for development of TREM related therapeutic and diagnostic products.
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Hydrogen sensor
27 May 2005
The same kind of chemical coating used to shed rainwater from aircraft and automobile windows also dramatically enhances the sensitivity and reaction time of hydrogen sensors.
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Microcapsule mix
27 May 2005
Chemical engineers from Rice University have developed a fundamentally new approach for making tiny hollow spheres called microcapsules.
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Current measurement simplified
27 May 2005
A new high direct current measurement system weighs just 20 kilograms, takes four hours to install, and improves accuracy over traditional approaches by a factor of 10.
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Grown up game
27 May 2005
A computer simulation uses videogame technology to train firefighters about how to respond to emergencies involving hazardous materials.
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Submarine detection
27 May 2005
Australian scientists have developed a new way to locate and identify even the ’quietest’ of today’s submarines.
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Bangladesh gets GSM
27 May 2005
Mobile operator Banglalink has awarded Siemens a two-year contract worth $50 million to set up its GSM network in Bangladesh.
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Basketball for the blind
27 May 2005
Three undergraduate students in the US have designed and built a system that will enable blind people to play basketball.
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Car safety
27 May 2005
Engineers at the University of Hertfordshire have found a way to comply with car safety regulations almost 10 times faster than traditional methods.
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Dreamliner addressed
27 May 2005
Boeing and Japan Aircraft Development Corporation (JADC) have signed formal contracts detailing their work agreements for the new 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
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Haptic recovery
27 May 2005
Stroke patients who face months of rehabilitation to regain the use of impaired limbs may benefit from new haptics systems in development in the US.
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Keeping cameras connected
27 May 2005
AvaLAN Wireless has created a long range non-line-of-sight (NLOS) wireless Ethernet bridge operating in the 902 - 928 MHz frequency band.
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Observing ozone
27 May 2005
A new Anglo/French project to study ozone pollution in the Channel region has begun, thanks to grants from The BOC Foundation, the European Regional Development Fund and the Environment Agency.
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Simplifying space data
27 May 2005
Signal processing techniques and antenna arrays built from everyday objects could revolutionise the way NASA obtains data from its Earth observing satellites.
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Standard compliant
27 May 2005
Infineon Technologies, a supplier of communication ICs, today announced that it is extending its DSL-portfolio with VINAX, a complete VDSL2/ADSL2+ end-to-end solution.
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Take heart in new 3D probe
27 May 2005
Biomedical engineers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have created a new three-dimensional ultrasound cardiac imaging probe. Inserted inside the oesophagus, the probe creates a picture of the whole heart in the time it takes for current ultrasound ...
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Sensational detection
26 May 2005
Emeryville, CA-based Nanomix has developed a hydrogen detector based on a carbon nanotube device that solves some of the headaches that plague users of traditional detectors.
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Plug-in acquisition
26 May 2005
National Instruments’ PCI plug-in data acquisition device, the NI PCI-6010, offers 16 channels of analog input with 16-bit resolution and 200 kS/s sampling rate.
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Acquiring the experts
26 May 2005
Canadian simulator developer CAE has acquired Tucson, AZ-based Terrain Experts for approximately $10 million.
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Imaging the earthquake
26 May 2005
Seismologists are using a new method to detail the processes that unfolded during the disastrous Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in the Indian Ocean.
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Polymer OLED JV
26 May 2005
Cambridge Display Technology and Sumitomo Chemical are to form a new joint venture company to develop and supply materials for use in OLED display and lighting applications.
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Boeing completes $1.1 billion SALE
26 May 2005
billion sales agreement for 20 Boeing Next-Generation 737s, plus purchase rights for 20 additional aircraft.
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Close inspection
26 May 2005
Varian Medical Systems has developed a new type of X-ray linear accelerator that will enable cargo screening systems to automatically alert operators if suspicious materials are detected.
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Exclusive textiles
26 May 2005
Researchers have pioneered a method to develop chemical-resistant textiles by attaching nanolayers to natural fibres.
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GE awarded Swedish upgrade
26 May 2005
GE Energy's nuclear business has been awarded a contract to upgrade the monitoring and control systems of the Forsmark Nuclear Power Station, Sweden.
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Manufacturers struggle to raise prices
26 May 2005
Manufacturing orders remained well below normal in May and order books are now at levels last seen consistently in late-2003 according to the CBI's monthly Industrial Trends Survey.
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Nano-machines on the move
26 May 2005
Researchers have found a way to sculpt material at the nanoscale in a predictable, controllable and inexpensive manner by using a conducting liquid medium.
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Oliver Design bought for $17.2 million
26 May 2005
Xyratex has acquired Oliver Design, a US developer and manufacturer of disk drive media cleaning technology, for $17.2 million.
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Dr. Who
25 May 2005
Dave Wilson examines the horrific implications of using medical ‘robots’ to cover ward rounds.
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ACMI sees bigger picture
25 May 2005
ACMI R&D Laboratories’ global R&D group has developed what it claims is the world’s smallest digital camera and video colour sensor.
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AMEC awarded £25 million
25 May 2005
AMEC has been awarded £25 million by Shell UK to deliver a new gas reception facility at the Bacton natural gas terminal in Norfolk.
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Apaches get an upgrade
25 May 2005
Britain’s Ministry of Defence has awarded AgustaWestland £194 million to upgrade sighting and targeting systems used onboard the UK military’s fleet of Apache AH MK1 helicopters.
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Boosting Bluetooth
25 May 2005
Cambridge Consultants has released a software development toolset that extends the application potential of the leading single-chip platform for Bluetooth applications, CSR’s BlueCore family of ICs.
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Cree confounds calefaction
25 May 2005
Cree has unveiled an LED backlighting approach that reduces power consumption in larger format LCD monitors and televisions by 60 percent compared with other LED backlighting solutions.
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Javelin order for JV
25 May 2005
The US Army has awarded a joint venture between Raytheon and Lockheed Martin $95 million to produce Javelin Anti-tank Weapon Systems.
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The stronger bridges of Madison County
25 May 2005
Concrete deck reinforced with a fibre-reinforced polymer grid system could replace conventional epoxy-coated reinforcing bars inside future bridges.
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Bucket liberation
24 May 2005
IRobot, the developer of the robotic Roomba vacuum cleaner, has made a new addition to its family of cleaning products.
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Alstom sells Flowsystems business
24 May 2005
Alstom and Logstor Holding have signed an agreement regarding the sale of Alstom’s Flowsystems business to Logstor. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
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Boeing launches 777 Freighter
24 May 2005
Boeing has officially launched the Boeing 777 Freighter, the world's largest twin-engine freighter, following the completion of a launch order from Air France.
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Fast stream
24 May 2005
Agilent Technologies today introduced the industry's first software tool that provides fast waveform for the design and verification of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ultra-wideband transceivers and components.
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Greasy gold standard
24 May 2005
ExxonMobil today announced the introduction of its GOLD (Grease One-Way Logistics and Distribution) System.
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Mapping the Moon
24 May 2005
NASA plans to send a high-precision laser altimeter dubbed LOLA to orbit the Moon and create a 3D map of its surface.
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Nanoscale photonic technology edges closer
24 May 2005
Scientists in the US are closer to realising nanoscale photonic technology after guiding pulses of laser light through a variety of complex structures.
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Radar spots climate anomalies
24 May 2005
A new research radar based in Antarctica is giving scientists the chance to study the highest layer of the earth’s atmosphere at the very edge of space.
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ScottishPower sells PacifiCorp for $9.4 billion
24 May 2005
MidAmerican Energy Holdings has reached an agreement to acquire ScottishPower subsidiary, PacifiCorp for $9.4 billion.
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Solar Britain
24 May 2005
UK Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks today announced that 14 new solar energy projects across the UK will receive £1.35 million in funding.
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Sponge spurs substance study
24 May 2005
The marine sponge is inspiring research in the design of new materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Fetching water is kid’s play
23 May 2005
In remote areas of South Africa, the chore of fetching water usually falls to women or children who travel large distances to get it. Not any more.
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Spotting seizures
23 May 2005
US scientists have developed a way to help doctors and nurses more easily identify babies at risk from epilepsy.
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Sniffing out salmonella
23 May 2005
Researchers at Strathclyde University have developed an oxygen sensor which indicates how long the contents of food packaging have been exposed to air.
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Underwater ears
23 May 2005
A US researcher has devised a low-cost, highly sensitive hydrophone array.
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People mover
23 May 2005
Bombardier has won an $89 million contract to supply its CX-100 Automated People Mover system for the Beijing Capital International Airport.
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DuPont expands in the East
23 May 2005
DuPont has signed an agreement with the Republic of Korea to build a $12 million nonwovens manufacturing facility in Gyeong-gi province.
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Shell signs with PetroChina
23 May 2005
PetroChina and Shell recently announced that they are proceeding with the development of the Changbei natural gas field China.
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Siemens receives conveyor contract
23 May 2005
Siemens has received a €170 million order to build a baggage handling system in the new Terminal 3 of Beijing International Airport.
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Turbo driven design
23 May 2005
Cambridge Consultants has developed a software program that accelerates the selection of turbo codes for wireless communication systems. Turbo codes are a class of recently-developed high-performance error correction codes finding use in applications where designers seek to achieve maximum information transfer over a limited-bandwidth communication link in the presence of data-corrupting noise.
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Solid state sensor
20 May 2005
Gentech has introduced a new magnetic position sensor which detects position displacements to tenths of a millimetre or less.
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Automating ceramics blending
20 May 2005
Euroelettra Sistemi, an Italian developer of ceramics production equipment, has used Emerson Process Management’s Micro Motion Coriolis technology to help with the design of a skid-mounted blending system for ceramic slip and colouring materials.
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Robot transplant
20 May 2005
A surgical team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Hospital in London has performed the UK’s first live kidney transplant operation using a robot.
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Line of sight
20 May 2005
A new device, called a “sonic flashlight,” offers a more efficient method of ultrasound guidance to place catheters in patients.
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Patent infringement
20 May 2005
US communications chip maker Broadcom has thrown a law suit against rival Qualcomm alleging that it has infringed ten of its patents.
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Billion dollar wash
20 May 2005
Iowa-based Maytag, one of the world’s best known developers of home and commercial appliances, is to be sold to an investment group for $2.1 billion.
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Battery power
20 May 2005
ITI Energy is to invest over £5 million in two research projects to develop the next generation of batteries for use in mobile phones, laptops and electric/hybrid electric vehicles.
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More rights for workers
20 May 2005
Workers rights in the UK lag behind those of almost every other European country.
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Programming DSPs with LabVIEW
20 May 2005
National Instruments’ NI LabVIEW DSP Module includes tools for designing, implementing and analysing DSP-based algorithms and systems, extending the LabVIEW graphical development environment to embedded signal processing applications.
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£1 billion hope for Yorkshire
20 May 2005
A £1 billion pound scientific project, which is set to lead the world in its field and create thousands of jobs, could be developed in the Yorkshire region in the UK.
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Alcoa closes Kentucky plant
19 May 2005
Alcoa today announced that it will close its Hawesville, Kentucky, automotive casting facility by the end of 2005.
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Better timing
19 May 2005
A new method for correcting common timing errors in high-speed oscilloscopes has been developed by researchers in the USA.
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EADS awarded €10 million
19 May 2005
EADS Defence Electronics has been awarded a contract worth more than €10 million for the supply of the Missile Launch Detection Systems.
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G350s for NAS
19 May 2005
Saudi Arabia’s National Air Services has signed a letter of intent with Gulfstream Aerospace to order three Gulfstream G350 business-jet aircraft.
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Light modulation
19 May 2005
Cornell University researchers have developed a micrometer-scale silicon device that allows an electrical signal to modulate a beam of light.
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Multi-colour LEDs
19 May 2005
Scientists have developed the first completely inorganic, multi-colour LEDs based on colloidal quantum dots encapsulated in a gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor.
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Output, orders and employment fall
19 May 2005
According to the CBI, smaller manufacturers faced tough trading conditions over the past quarter, with output, orders and employment all falling.
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Pinpointing pathogens
19 May 2005
University of Toronto researchers have designed a chemical screening tool that will light up when pathogens in air, water and bodily fluids are present.
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Protein purified
19 May 2005
Penn State chemical engineers have demonstrated proof of concept for a new protein purification process.
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Weighing DNA
19 May 2005
Cornell researchers have built nanoelectromechanical oscillators small enough to sense the mass of a single DNA molecule.
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Prozac on the loose?
18 May 2005
The UK Environment Agency is asking manufacturers of the antidepressant fluoxetine to look at whether the chemical is finding its way into the environment and having an effect on wildlife.
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Change for change’s sake?
18 May 2005
One way to transform your company is to give it a new name or corporate logo. But be careful!
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Colour security
18 May 2005
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Leasing it
18 May 2005
The manufacturing and construction industry is switching to a system where instead of selling expensive products such as buildings and military hardware outright, it leases them.
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Bionic implant
18 May 2005
‘Bionic’ devices that produce functional hand and arm movement through electrical stimulation have been fitted to the arm of a stroke patient at the University of Southampton.
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Security threat
18 May 2005
An independent researcher has found a security flaw in Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology.
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ABAQUS bought for $413 million
18 May 2005
Dassault Systèmes has announced an agreement to acquire ABAQUS in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $413 million.
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Billions from Boeing
18 May 2005
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $3.2 billion multi-year contract by Boeing to continue its production work on the F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft.
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BP blames staff for refinery blast
18 May 2005
BP has released an interim report into the explosion and fire at its Texas City refinery, admitting that certain BP staff were culpable for the lives of 15 workers.
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Lucent awarded Saudi contract
18 May 2005
Lucent Technologies is to deliver an advanced software solution that will enable Saudi Telecom Company to reduce network management complexity and operations costs.
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Rising wind revenue
18 May 2005
GE Energy has received orders and commitments for 2005 that total 2,400 megawatts of new wind power capacity worldwide. These projects represent an anticipated increase in revenue of 300% over its first-year wind operations in 2002, the company reported recently at Windpower 2005.
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Robot swarms cloud danger
18 May 2005
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have received a grant to develop large-scale "swarms" of robots that could work together to thoroughly search large areas of ground and sky.
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Smiths expands US presence
18 May 2005
The UK’s Smiths Group has entered into an agreement to acquire ETI Technology, a US bio-technology detection company.
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Sumitomo buys LEP business
18 May 2005
Sumitomo Chemical recently acquired Dow Chemical’s Lumation Light-Emitting Polymers business for an undisclosed fee.
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Cordless sale
17 May 2005
National Semiconductor is to sell its cordless business unit to HgCapital, a private equity investor based in London, UK.
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Under my skin
17 May 2005
A NASA technologist is to develop a high-tech covering that would enable robots to sense their environment and react to it.
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CSIRO spat
17 May 2005
Some of the world's most significant suppliers of Wireless LAN devices have initiated legal action in the US to try to CSIRO obtaining reasonable royalties on its key US WLAN patent.
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Extra production for Prowler
17 May 2005
BAE Systems has been awarded a $10 million contract modification for the production of eight additional Low Band Transmitters (LBT) for the U.S. Navy's EA-6B Prowler aircraft. The Navy uses the EA-6B in electronic attack roles.
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Lifesaving plastics
17 May 2005
Engineers in the US have improved plastic’s potential for use in implants by discovering way to link it to biological materials.
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Loot in Laos
17 May 2005
Alcatel has won contracts worth $9.3 million with Lao Telecommunications to provide wireless, optical and broadband solutions for a new phase of network expansion in Laos.
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Nuclear battery runs for decades
17 May 2005
A battery with a lifespan measured in decades is in development at the University of Rochester, New York.
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Remunerative RFID
17 May 2005
Frost & Sullivan estimates that spending on RFID-related hardware, software and services in Europe will exceed €5 billion in 2007.
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Plasma recycling
13 May 2005
A new recycling plant uses plasma technology to separate aluminium and plastic components from cartons.
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Guinness battery
13 May 2005
A massive multi-celled battery system developed by ABB and battery maker Saft has powered its way to a certified Guinness world record as the world’s most powerful battery.ABB’s BESS (battery energy storage system), which occupies ...
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More tyres
13 May 2005
Bridgestone Europe is to build a tyre plant in Hungary to make radial tyres for passenger vehicles and light trucks.
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Digital display
13 May 2005
A group of companies is developing a new digital interface specification for use with most forms of displays.
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Nanogel roofs
13 May 2005
A translucent aerogel, dubbed Nanogel, is to be used in a new range of energy efficient daylighting roofing systems.
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Mobile web initiative
13 May 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium’s Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) is a new endeavour to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device.
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Chinese consumption surges
13 May 2005
World trade in steel expanded sharply in 2004, influenced in large part by growth in the Chinese construction and manufacturing sectors.
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Falling orders
13 May 2005
Most UK regions saw new manufacturing orders fall markedly in recent months, with manufacturers in large parts of the country reporting a further drop in overall confidence.
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Blair told to deliver
13 May 2005
Energy analysts have called upon the UK’s Prime Minister to put his promises over climate change into action, after it was announced this week that the UK will miss its domestic target of cutting CO2 emissions by 20% by 2010.
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Chemical clean-up
13 May 2005
Chemists have discovered that natural chemical processes in the atmosphere may be removing damaging hydrocarbons at a faster rate than once believed.
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Chernobyl project receives $200 million
13 May 2005
The G8 nations have this week pledged $200 million to the Chernobyl Shelter Fund.
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Flight stability
13 May 2005
Engineers at Lehigh University have designed and successfully flight-tested a new control device that a pilot can use to tailor the lateral stability of aircraft.
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MicroCATS in space
13 May 2005
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing lightweight, compact microchemical and thermal systems for NASA applications.
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Plasma propelled space flight
13 May 2005
A team of engineers and scientists led by NASA have begun investigating the physics and performance of magnetic nozzles.
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Policing the RF spectrum
13 May 2005
Ofcom has awarded a QinetiQ-led consortium a contract to deliver an operational automatic radio interference monitoring demonstration system.
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Quantum code breaking
13 May 2005
This colonised image shows the fluorescence from three trapped beryllium ions illuminated with an ultraviolet laser beam. Black and blue areas indicate lower intensity, and red and white higher intensity.
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Ryanair ratifies $4.6 billion order
13 May 2005
Boeing and Ryanair, a European low-cost airline, have completed the carrier's previously announced $4.6 billion order for 70 Boeing 737-800 aeroplanes.
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Shocking ceramics
13 May 2005
Peizhen Kathy Lu has received funding to advance her research into adding electrical conductivity to ceramic materials by incorporating carbon nanotubes.
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State support for CSeries
13 May 2005
Bombardier and UK Government have signed a Letter of Intent relating to the development of the new CSeries family of aircraft.
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Sun buys Tarantella
12 May 2005
Sun Microsystems is to acquire software developer Tarantella for $25 million.
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Whopping DVD debuts
12 May 2005
Toshiba has developed a triple-layer HD DVD-ROM (read-only) disc with a data capacity of 45GBytes - enough to record twelve hours of high-definition movies on a single disc.
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Japanese engines
12 May 2005
This month, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to launch a range of V-type diesel engines in its SR series, with power outputs in the 1,250-2,000 kW range.
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Nicer bites
12 May 2005
The US produce industry is working with the Agricultural Research Service to make sure that fruits and vegetables taste as good as they look.
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Portable high-def video
12 May 2005
New silicon intellectual property from Sarnoff will decode video based on the H.264 standard, so that PDAs, cell phones, and other portable devices can display vivid high-resolution videos.
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X-ray device uses nanotubes
12 May 2005
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spin-off company has developed a new X-ray device based on carbon nanotubes
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Clarity for Synelec
12 May 2005
Clarity Visual Systems has announced the acquisition of the international assets of Synelec Telecom Multimedia, a digital display company based in France.
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CUNO bought for $1.35 billion
12 May 2005
3M announced today that it is to acquire CUNO, a manufacturer of filtration products, for $1.35 billion.
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Gas for Texas
12 May 2005
Air Products has been selected to supply bulk specialty gases to Samsung Austin Semiconductor's DRAM manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas.
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Heavy lifting
12 May 2005
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have successfully levitated diamond and some of the heaviest elements, including lead and platinum.
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Images in motion
12 May 2005
A fully digital 4D ultrasound system is set to provide a ‘next generation’ integrated solution for medical imaging applications.
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PPM grows in the US
12 May 2005
ScottishPower's US energy subsidiary, PPM, today announced the expansion of a gas storage development project in west Texas and the acquisition of a New Mexico gas storage facility.
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Replicating robots
12 May 2005
Researchers at Cornell University have created a machine that is capable of replicating itself.
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Run RABBIT run
12 May 2005
A Franco-American team of researchers has created a robot capable of remaining upright when pushed.
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Spain tops wind poll
12 May 2005
Spanish utility Iberdrola has surpassed US company FPL Energy as the largest wind farm owner in the world.
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Systems house for Bangpoo
12 May 2005
BASF has announced that it is to establish a systems house for polyurethane specialties in Bangpoo, Thailand.
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Time out
11 May 2005
The European Parliament has voted to end the UK's opt-out of the EU Working Time Directive, which allows UK companies to ask staff to work more than 48 hours a week.
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Closing the cracks
11 May 2005
ABAQUS, the Providence, RI-based FEA software developer has developed a new add-on for its software suite called VCCT for ABAQUS.
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What women want
11 May 2005
The University of Derby is having trouble recruiting women onto its new BSc Computer Games Programming degree course. Dave Wilson knows why.
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Long haul for fuel cell vehicles
11 May 2005
Researchers believe it could take several decades to overcome the technical challenges standing in the way of the mass production and use of hydrogen fuel cell cars.
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Plastic fantastic
11 May 2005
Dr. Yueh-Lin Loo at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded $264,000 to seek a 10-fold increase in the conductivity of plastic.
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Workplace absence costs UK £12.2 billion
11 May 2005
Workplace absence cost the UK economy £12.2 billion in 2004, with concern that £1.7 billion of that cost is due to staff "pulling sickies".
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Mac DAQ attack
10 May 2005
Linux and Mac OS X users now can develop applications with 80 National Instruments data acquisition (DAQ) devices.
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Atom probe
10 May 2005
Oxford nanoScience has announced a breakthrough in 3-Dimensional Atom Probe technology.
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Cognex buys DVT
10 May 2005
US vision system supplier Cognex has acquired DVT Corporation, a privately-held company based in Duluth, GA, for $115 million.
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£17 million wind farm
10 May 2005
The Co-operative Group and ScottishPower are teaming up to build a 16MW windfarm at Coldham in Cambridgeshire.
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2D to 3D
10 May 2005
CADFind, the first commercial design retrieval system that can find 2D engineering drawings from a sketch, has now been extended to work with 3D CAD solid modelling environments.
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Afloat in Norway
10 May 2005
Rolls-Royce has established its first University Technology Centre in Norway to conduct research programmes in the marine sector.
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Canny cable assembly
10 May 2005
Electronics engineers requiring high-speed 2mm shielded cable assemblies can get lower EMI emissions while maintaining signal integrity using new products from 3M.
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Decades of power
10 May 2005
Researchers have created a porous-silicon diode that may lead to improved betavoltaics.
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Fears over fullerenes
10 May 2005
Scientists have found that fullerenes dissolve in water and could have a negative impact on soil bacteria.
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JAL confirms $5.3 billion order
10 May 2005
Boeing and Japan Airlines have completed contracts worth $5.3 billion for 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 30 Next-Generation 737-800 aircraft.
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Mancunian moveable mauls MRSA
10 May 2005
Scientists at the University of Manchester have unveiled a new product which aims to aid hospitals in the fight against MRSA.
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Modbus TCP is world leader
10 May 2005
A newly released study by ARC Advisory Group shows Modbus TCP as the World’s leading industrial Ethernet protocol.
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New order
10 May 2005
Scientists have harnessed an experimental technology to produce polymer films with long-range-ordered nanostructure and convert them into highly ordered "nanocarbon arrays."
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To infinity and beyond
10 May 2005
Aerojet has won $32.4 million to deliver a 600kW Hall Thruster electric propulsion system to power future cargo transport vehicles to the Moon and Mars.
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Tracking TNT
10 May 2005
University of South Florida researchers have developed a sensor that can detect the explosive TNT in a marine environment.
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Undercover tactics
10 May 2005
Researchers have produced nanotubes made of cyclic peptides that are coated with a soft polymeric plastic shell.
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Keep taking the pills
9 May 2005
UK design consultancy PDD has unveiled a new homecare concept designed to ensure older people fully comply with their medication regimes.
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Microwave focusing
9 May 2005
US researchers have focused a plane microwave by a plano-concave lens fabricated from a photonic crystal specially designed to have negative refractive index and left-handed electro-magnetic properties.
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Making cancer shine
9 May 2005
Binding gold nanoparticles to a specific antibody for cancer cells could make cancer detection much easier.
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Zoran buys Oren
9 May 2005
Zoran Corporation is to buy Yoqneam, Israel-based Oren Semiconductor for $44.6 million in cash.
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Nano display debuts
9 May 2005
Motorola Labs, the applied research arm of Motorola, today unveiled a working 5-inch colour video display prototype based on proprietary Carbon Nanotube technology.
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Russian plants gets $37 million
9 May 2005
Alcoa today announced it will invest $37 million in its recently acquired Belaya Kalitva fabricating facility in Russia.
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Lens makers go flat out
9 May 2005
Optics researchers in Canada have made a liquid-crystal lens with a focal length that can be adjusted by applying a voltage. The lens, which is flat, could have applications ...
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Record attempt abandoned
9 May 2005
The UK-based e=motion team has abandoned its attempt to break the world electric land speed record.
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$239 million order for Bombardier
9 May 2005
Bombardier has received a $239 million order for 48 high-capacity trains from French National Railways (SNCF).
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Merger creates power giant
9 May 2005
Cinergy and Duke Energy have entered into a merger agreement to create a $70 billion energy company.
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Raytheon awarded $162.7 million
9 May 2005
Raytheon has been awarded $162.7 million to produce Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles for the US Navy and nine other NATO nations.
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Supercar
6 May 2005
In the future, EPSRC research could lead to an altogether better automobile, writes Geoffrey Moore.
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Marconi slashes headcount
6 May 2005
Marconi is to restructure its business and layoff 800 jobs in the UK in an attempt to remain competitive.
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Ultrasound simplification
6 May 2005
Analog Devices has introduced a new IC that, it claims, simplifies the development of continuous wave (CW) Doppler imaging in stationary and portable ultrasound systems.
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Tiny endoscopes
6 May 2005
Researchers at the Stuttgart Institute for Microelectronics have developed two prototypes of tiny endoscopes.
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Alcoa invests $102 million in Jamaican ops
6 May 2005
Alcoa and the government of Jamaica have approved plans to immediately expand Alcoa’s Jamalco alumina refinery by 150,000 metric tons per year.
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Happy campers
6 May 2005
Researchers in the US have created a material for the US military that is lighter, stronger and less expensive than traditional materials used to build temporary tent structures.
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Northwest boost for Boeing
6 May 2005
Northwest Airlines has placed a $2.2 billion order with Boeing for up to 68 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
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Research is a blast
6 May 2005
Structural engineers in the US are developing blast mitigation technologies to harden buildings and bridges against terrorist attacks.
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Let’s work together
5 May 2005
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is to work with the developers of the wireless technology commonly known as Ultra-WideBand to combine the strengths of both technologies.
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Asian actuation
5 May 2005
Bearings giant SKF is to acquire Jaeger Industrial, a manufacturer of electromechanical actuators, electronic control units as well as complete actuation systems.
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Parallel simulation software
5 May 2005
French digital simulation software provider ESI has recently released ProCAST 2005, a finite element software package for foundry simulation.
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Chinese compressors
5 May 2005
Ingersoll-Rand has completed the acquisition of the remaining 20% interest in China-based Shanghai Ingersoll-Rand Compressor. (SIRC).
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Unacceptable face of DRM
5 May 2005
The GSM Association is to continue to evaluate Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions for its members after a proposal from MPEG LA was met with dismay.
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Bendable concrete
5 May 2005
A new type of fibre-reinforced bendable concrete will be used for the first time in Michigan this summer.
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Thinking man’s robot
5 May 2005
A team of computer scientists at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth have secured a major grant to build a new robot that will react to changes in its environment.
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NI buys Measurement Computing
5 May 2005
National Instruments has acquired the operating assets of Measurement Computing Corporation, a provider of low-cost data acquisition products.
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Thousands go at IBM
5 May 2005
IBM plans to implement a series of restructuring actions designed to improve its efficiency.
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Umbrella man
5 May 2005
A student at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)has reinvented the humble umbrella.
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Australia selects RTM322 engine
5 May 2005
The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322 engine has been selected by the Australian Department of Defence to power its fleet of NH90 helicopters.
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Bug boosts biomass
5 May 2005
Half the automotive fuel in the USA could be replaced with ethanol from renewable agricultural crops and forest wastes.
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Building plant
5 May 2005
Siemens has secured a €440 million contract from Germany’s Trianel Power Kraftwerk Hamm-Uentrop to construct a new combined cycle power plant.
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New ATMS for Oz
5 May 2005
Australia’s ARTC and Lockheed Martin are to develop a blueprint for a new Advanced Train Management System (ATMS).
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Promise for fuel cells
5 May 2005
Research suggests carbon nanotubes "decorated" with certain transition metals can facilitate efficient hydrogen storage.
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Siemens awarded €12 million
5 May 2005
Siemens has received €12 million from SNC Lavalin, Québec, Canada, to supply and install a pumping station for a potable water project in Algeria.
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UV-source for germ-free water
4 May 2005
An improved UV lamp could hold the key to improving the efficiency of sewage treatment processes.
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Detecting cancer
4 May 2005
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a breakthrough technology that identifies molecular markers in early lung cancer.
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The lawnmower man
4 May 2005
Dave Wilson goes to mow a meadow, but finds that the developers of his mower could have paid more attention to Design For Manufacturing.
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BMED buys Airbus A321s
4 May 2005
UK carrier BMED has recently placed a firm order with Airbus for seven A321s, with the first delivery scheduled for January 2006. The order, worth about $525 million at list prices, is the first that the airline, which is a franchise partner of British ...
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Finer flights for UAVs
4 May 2005
NASA researchers are evaluating new flight-control software that will give UAVs the ability to autonomously react to obstacles as they fly pre-programmed missions.
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Free PROFIBUS training
4 May 2005
A completely reworked web based training from PROFIBUS International is now available free of charge.
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London calling for Bombardier
4 May 2005
Bombardier announced today that it has been awarded $94 million from Docklands Light Railway, London, for 24 light rail cars.
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Renal Care Group bought for $3.5 billion
4 May 2005
Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest provider of dialysis products, is to acquire the Renal Care Group for $3.5 billion.
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A shocking new discovery
3 May 2005
Engineers have devised a new method for investigating living systems at the molecular level.
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AAFARS order fuels BAE Systems
3 May 2005
The US Army has placed an $8 million order with BAE Systems for 32 portable combat helicopter refuelling systems.
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Bacteria becomes living computer
3 May 2005
Engineers at Princeton have programmed bacteria to communicate with each other and produce colour-coded patterns.
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Beaming communications
3 May 2005
Duke University physicists have developed a switching technique that uses a very weak beam of light to control a much stronger beam. The achievement could make optical telecommunications devices perform far more efficiently, and perhaps also aid in the development ...
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Detecting mutations
3 May 2005
A new method to identify DNA mutations may shepherd in an era of small, portable, electronic devices for the rapid screening and identification of genes that harbour disease.
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GSK buys Corixa for $300 million
3 May 2005
GlaxoSmithKline recently announced the execution of an agreement to acquire Corixa Corporation for $300 million.
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Rocket launch
3 May 2005
Pending civil litigation between Boeing and Lockheed Martin will be scrapped if a rocket launch joint venture between the two companies lifts off.
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Steel deal for Siemens
3 May 2005
Siemens has received an order from China’s Angang Iron and Steel Group to supply the electrical equipment for a new 5m plate mill.
