Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating devices out of a water-based hydrogel material that can be patterned, folded and used to manipulate...
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has today called on whichever party wins the general election to put infrastructure at the heart of long-term economic plans. Do you agree?
With the First World War almost over, The Engineer looked in detail at The Fokker Single-Seater Biplane: a German fighter designed to replace Fokker’s rather accident-prone triplane.
A newly developed carbon nanotube material could help to lower the cost of fuel cells, catalytic converters and similar energy-related technologies by delivering a substitute for platinum catalysts.
A series of radars deployed on Antarctica are expected to give researchers their first ever day-by-day measurements of the health of one of the continent’s ice shelves.
The CQB75-300S series of DC-DC converters offer 75 watts of output power in single output voltages of 5, 12, 15, 24, 48VDC within an industry standard quarter-brick. It also has a high efficiency of...
In today’s economic environment every penny spent on manufacturing has to be effective. While most manufacturers can achieve benchmark efficiency targets, achieving the full operating potential of a...
The Iain Gray ColumnAs final entries are received for this year’s KTP awards, it’s an appropriate time to look at the impact that Knowledge Transfer Partnerships have on the engineering sector.
Bosch Rexroth AG’s sales for 2008 were up 9.8 percent on the previous year increasing its turnover to EUR 5.8 billion. The subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH anticipates a significantly weaker...
As one of the leading manufacturers of sorting machines, Pace Automation relies on Cognex vision to ensure one of its key customers receives 100% accuracy on the production line.
