Even after their retirement from active duty, the three operating NASA space shuttles will be providing experts at the American space agency with a wealth of data. As the orbiters are prepared for permanent displays at several museums, technicians have been instructed to remove many parts for analysis.Some of these c... |
1 August 2011
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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with German physicists at the University of Potsdam, develop a coating material that can be used to monitor building integrity.The team says that the sensor-laden, fabric-like material has electrical properties, and that it could be inexpe... |
30 June 2011
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A licentiate thesis in English from the University of Gothenburg, concluded that because of the globalization process, in many Swedish companies that were sold to owners in other countries, employees are often forced to change their working language from Swedish to English.Vivianne Apelman is the author of this thesi... |
13 September 2010
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Columbia University experts have just recently finished developing a new Augmented Reality (AR) system that allows mechanics to finish complex repairs for the machines they are charged with fixing in half the time they would need otherwise. Imagine a world in which, rather than reading an extensive manual, engineers ... |
26 October 2009
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New statistic reports show that, in the United States, the rate of employment for electrical and electronics engineers (EEs) is at its lowest in years, and that many trained professionals are kicked out of their jobs on account of the economic crisis. And, while the federal government struggles to take the country ou... |
8 July 2009
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With the recent situation the space shuttle Atlantis, freshly returned from servicing the Hubble Space Telescope for the fifth and final time, finds itself in, many have begun to talk about postponing future space missions, or even early retirement. NASA officials, however, tend to be a bit more optimistic, and say t... |
30 June 2009
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It's no secret to anyone that professions such as engineering were never too much pursued by women, but a new statistical research shows that the trend is still diminishing to this day, despite the fact that they have long since begun to succeed in professions that were until a century ago considered to be exclu... |
22 May 2009
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A recent contest, set up by aeronautics company Airbus, the creator of the largest passenger airplane in the world, the A380, has requested students around the world to come up with the most innovative planes of the future. Demands have not been very strict, in that the participants could base their ideas on technolo... |
11 May 2009
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The recent digs performed this summer at the World Trade Center in New York in order to lay the foundations for another skyscraper revealed some remains sculpted into the rocks in the area by ancient glaciers some twenty millennia ago, among which there was a 40 ft-deep (12 m) pothole. The uncovering of the soli... |
24 September 2008
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Cisco has released a plan to boost the Indian number of networking engineers from about 60,000 as available today to 360,000 within five years. The new engineers will be trained by Cisco and certified on Cisco networking gear and technologies. There have been rumors recently that alleged that Cisco is having financia... |
5 February 2008
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Which is the world's tallest building? a) the Empire State Buildingb) the Petronas Towersc) the Sears Towerd) Taipei 101It's d); Taipei 101. The name comes from the fact that it's got 101 stories above ground, but it also has 5 underground. It's located in Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan, Repub... |
7 May 2007
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