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In June 2018, Mondelez International was hit by the outbreak of the NotPetya 'wiper' malware, which disrupted the shipping of candy and snacks. The company only recently revealed the attack [...]

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? WHEN HOME DESIGNERS OF YESTERYEAR PREDICTED THE FUTURE, THEY TOLD US MOSTLY ABOUT THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVED, AND SO IT GOES TODAY. ONE WORD: [...]

IP THE PAST, those concerns were analyzed and treated after a product was designed, passing down the line from design and mechanical engineers to acoustics analysts. Today, manufacturers are increasingly [...]

Complex functions can be accomplished through machines built at the molecular scale. At left, a design for a computer memory system uses a nanotube probe. Above, this motion controller was [...]

THE BRIGHTLY FROSTED CUPCAKES SITTING ON THE TABLE SEEM OUT OF PLACE IN THIS HARD-WORKING JUNIOR HIGH THAT EMPHASIZES SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH. Shouldn't these kids be working at [...]

Most people have a romantic idea of farmers and their farm equipment. Farm tractors, for instance, are solidly built but a little old-fashioned, the kind a thing a farmer muscles [...]

Is the desktop computer being slowly phased out as tablets and smartphones move into the space? Perhaps. And with good reason, says Marc Schulman, president of MultiEducator Inc. His company, [...]

Like so many of us, Soolmaz Moshfeghian has been frustrated by websites that ask her to reiterate on the spot a password she'd last used to sign in more than [...]

BECAUSE COMPOSITES DON'T BEHAVE LIKE METALS, THEY CAN PRESENT PARTICULAR CHALLENGES TO DESIGNERS. TOOLS ARE EVOLVING TO HELP ENGINEERS WORK WITH THESE COMPLEX MATERIALS. An aircraft manufacturer came to HCL [...]

IN 1854, ELISHA GRAVES OTIS CUT THE ROPE ON A HOISTED PLATFORM AT THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR. THE PLATFORM STAYED ALOFT, AS HE KNEW IT WOULD, BECAUSE OTIS WAS [...]

MEDICAL DEVICES COVER A WIDE RANGE, from commercial to hospital grade: from the case you might plunk your contact lenses in at night to the heart-lung bypass machine that keeps [...]

THE VENDORS OF PRODUCT lifecycle management systems are in a constant battle against being pigeonholed. Sure, PLM has become a critical tool for manufacturers of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. or companies [...]

Are you looking for inexpensive 3-D software in order to trim a particularly large stereo-lithography file? Want to participate in an open design contest? Looking for guidance on the Kalman [...]

It's impossible to model the physical world exactly; it can't be done with clay, by digital simulation, even by supercomputer. And it certainly can't be done for an aircraft engine [...]

Last year, two security researchers gave themselves a goal: 100 days to identify as many security vulnerabilities as possible within industrial control system software. 'The results exceeded our expectations,' Terry [...]

Finite element analysis dates to around the 1950s, when its developers sought a way to carry out complex elasticity, airframe, and structural analyses. Recently, a group of scientists without an [...]

Its developers spent nearly 30 years working on the artificial heart before Barney Clark received the Jarvik 7 in 1982. There are those today who predict it will be about [...]

Maybe you're an engineer thanks to your childhood. Experiences, interests, and the cultural milieu of childhood help set the stage for one's adult occupation and interests. But in this online [...]

Advocates of rapid prototyping believe the small industry has the potential to be the next big thing. They see a future where custom-built objects replace mass-produced items. But Behrokh Khoshnevis [...]

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In Oakland, Calif., a motley band of young engineers, fabricators, machinists, artists, plumbers, and others gathers Wednesday nights in service of a shared love: steam. Hammers clang and sparks fly [...]

When finite element analysis software--once the purview of experts with advanced degrees--made the I jump from mainframe to desktop computer about 20 years ago, it opened up the world of [...]

Magicians like to claim that the hand is quicker than the eye. But for Manner AG, the maker of wafers, biscuits, and cookies based in Perg, Austria, it was the [...]

Is it your fault if you press the wrong button on your television remote control? Of course not, according to George Delagrammatikas, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Albert [...]

January saw the death of British mathematician Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, an early pioneer of the finite element method who pushed for its computerization and who recognized the potential for using [...]

Though mass customization has grown since the middle 1990s, thanks in large part to the Internet, an era of mass customized commercial and engineered products has yet to fully arrive. [...]

As software makers seek to derive further market value from their product lifecycle management offerings, they're looking to extend the PLM system beyond the engineering-manufacturing loop. They say PLM has [...]

Three-dimensional printing is a rapid prototyping process that builds objects by depositing a material such as thermoset resin in layers one on the other. Desktop 3-D printers are now relatively [...]

Maybe you manage a team made up of engineers you've never met in person. After all, engineering teams comprising members who work across the country and even across the world [...]

A decade from now, if we were to observe engineers at work (ignoring the privacy issues involved), we could expect to see designers interacting in very different ways with their [...]

Computers are so last century. Software engineers, move over. The present century will be the age of biomedical engineering, according to researchers in the thriving biomedical proV grams at Drexel [...]

When retirees walk out the door, they take with them everything they've learned on their jobs. Their replacements must slowly regain the on-the-job knowledge the exemployees spent years accumulating. In [...]

Say you're designing a huge piece of machinery. Now, imagine that you're creating the machine from scratch; it's never existed before. The expected lifespan is around 40 years. If this [...]

Your company's most important data may also be its hardest to access. This information consists of the digital files created over the years by engineers. If companies don t have [...]

Search the Web enough and you can find any thing, including a site devoted to poorly designed products. Called Bad Designs (www. baddesigns.com), the site is dedicated to outing products [...]

Mechanical engineering students have a lot to learn and only a few short years to do it. First, they'll need to be versed in engineering concepts and the mathematics behind [...]

Companies could cut their production expenses and time by tying the manufacturing floor to the product lifecycle management system used by mechanical engineers, according to researchers. But linking the manufacturing [...]

In 2004, an angry employee at a Kansas City, Kan., ConAgra Foods Inc. meatpacking plant shot eight fellow workers, killing five, before committing suicide. Similar tragedies continue to occur. Last [...]

The methods that mechanical engineers most frequently call upon in their work have never been strictly confined to the province of machinery. Today, perhaps more than ever before, engineers are [...]

A short time after Best Buy Co. of Richfield, Minn., officially adopted its code of ethics in 2000, the company began providing annual ethics training for its 140,000 employees across [...]

Consider the iPhone. Even in the likely event you don't own one, you've heard the buzz: The Apple hybrid combines a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and Web-surfing capability all [...]

NO MATTER THE STRIPE or flavor, it's likely that that new SFA solution the company implemented won't do what the business needs it to do. This reality, while unsettling, isn't […]

Katie Willoughby spent the first four weeks of her internship last summer in Kansas City, Mo.-based Hallmark Cards Inc.'s marketing department accompanying her boss from one meeting to the next [...]

Only a decade ago, analyzing the myriad forces and flows that came together to inflate an airbag could be a lengthy and complicated undertaking. Flash forward 10 years and mechanical [...]

Jim Cahoy recalls the day he received a box of horned-tooth toads from a co-worker. His colleague handed over the box during a team-building exercise at Thomson West, a publisher [...]

Today's complex 3-D engineering files definitely aren't your father's (or grandfather's) hand-drawn blueprints. It used to be that anybody could look at blueprints at any time, as long as you [...]

Each week now, the national news seems to report a new discovery brought to us from the life sciences. In May, for example, Korean researchers announced that they had produced [...]