engineering

It looks as if control of Voyager 1 has been lost. NASA Engineers Are Racing to Fix Voyager 1 A fix may be found but no great hope is held. However, not a bad record for fifty-year old technology. 15 billion miles!

Take a bridge. How do you make a bridge, over water. It is obviously impossible to build anything under water so that's the first thing. And if you're talking about a suspension bridge I can almost see how it stays up but not how it gets up. Car tyres. Or tires. Also impossible to...

For my Technical Writing class, I had to contact a local organization, preferably one related to my field, and interview them, asking them some major problems they have. I then recommend a solution by the end of the semester. I just recently switched to Mechanical Engineering as my major, and I...

Greetings. I've brought this up in the past, but it felt like a good time to try again...probably because of the fun discussing the human powered helicopter challenge. The challenge is to build a craft that is lighter than air, without the use of hot air, He or H2. Specifically, it would need...

Check out the essay entries for this year's essay contest for creative minds from kids in levels K-12 in engineering at this website: http://www.engineergirl.org/?id=10664 I originally heard of this from the Academy of Sciences website. Some bright light I hope. You can also check out the...

A story of heroic engineering, all dressed up but with no place to go. ---------------------------------------------------- DISABLED INTEL SATELLITE RESTORED TO OPERATION BY NRO A U.S. intelligence satellite that had ceased to function was recently restored to operation by engineers from the...

That's what I'm looking for. I talking with some people about the collapse of the towers. The claim about no steel framed building ever collapsing due to fire is raised again. We've mentioned some of the examples, but a hard-core truther (with no engineering background in any form) pooh-poohs...

So one of the parties blamed in that ceiling collapse is paying up and promising some answers: http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7541980 The answer I'm hoping for though, and this has been bugging me for a while, is: Why the heck were they gluing 2-ton panels to the ceiling...

As I understand it, intelligent design proponents often draw an analogy between human engineering and intelligent design. Just as human engineers tinker with their designs of technologies making changes that have a specific, predicted results, so too does God the Divine Engineer tinker with its...

For the wide-eyed futurist, the costs of slinging things into space is one of the least promising things about space. Depending on how you decide to work out the numbers, launch costs typically work out to the tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram. There is the question of whether there's...

In the October edition of Engineering & Technology Careers section from the IET: This is great news! It means my boss understands and appreciates what I do and there will be few young people to kick me out of a job when I'm past 50. I say keep on encouraging them to study psychology:)

It occurs to me that, gas laws being what they are, loosing heat from the burning fuel-air mixture of an internal combustion engine is loosing potential work, and heating up the cylinders and other engine parts moreover. Would it be practical to line the cylinder walls with something rather...

This is a bit of an unusual request but I am hoping that some of the engineering wizards here can help me out. The hypothetical scenario is this: Old, redundant hydro wires are being removed along the length of a street.They are attached, of course, from pole to pole down the street. They are...

In a closed cooling system will running refrigerant through the system at faster speeds after it goes through the compressor cause it loose more heat than if it was traveling at slower speeds? Much like running cooler air over the pipe causes it to loose heat. Assume that in both cases the only...

In 1975, the US ranked in the top in the top 5 in the number of science and engineering graduates. In 2004, it ranks less than 15th. Speculation as to why? "About 55 percent of students taking physics in the United States, for example, are taught by someone who never majored or minored in the...

So now these power hungry Krauts and trying to defeat our Island Nation by selling us combustible buses! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3563279.stm

Out of my 1198-99 ASHRAE Journal (magazine for architects, mechanical contractors, university studies, etc.) If you can help figure outr solutions to posed problems/research projects...maybe you could get a grant for working on these. Here is a taste of some of the listed ones: "Moisture...

Theoretically speaking, How far can we take genetic engineering. Will we ever be able to create a super human race? Will we ever be able to create hybrid humans, perhaps a human race with wings? scales? feathers? Gills? Ideas like this fascinate me.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030507080912.htm A virus has been engineered to kill cells of a rare brain tumor. It works in mice, human trials may be coming soon. Could a few successes like this alleviate fears of genetic tinkering?