Engineering

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Popular Mechanics November 2006 Logan Ward	Bulb Slayer: Lighting the World with LEDs Innovators Michael Bowers, James McBride and Sandra Rosenthal win the Breakthrough Award 2006 for developing a more environmentally friendly way of lighting.
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Logan Ward	Robo-Husky: Teaching a Robotic Dog to Walk Funded by the military research agency DARPA, the bizarre, four-legged creature may someday haul heavy loads and keep troops out of some high-risk locations.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 David Kushner	The Firefox Kid Blake Ross helped make Firefox one of the biggest open-source success stories ever. Just wait until you see what he's up to now.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Monte Ross	The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 James Oberg	Breathing Easy in Space Is Never Easy Problems with oxygen generators aboard the space station could have big implications.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Kieron Murphy	Q&A: Paul G. Richards, Nuclear Arms Seismologist An interview with the Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University on the science of detecting and measuring nuclear weapons test explosions.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Willie D. Jones	Swiss Invent a Muscular Display Today's high-end display would be perfect if only it offered more detail and true color. Now Swiss researchers propose to solve both these problems with moveable gratings that break white light into a rainbow and bend the right part of it to a spot on the screen.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Robert W. Lucky	Impossible Tradeoffs The essence of engineering is making intelligent tradeoffs between conflicting parameters. Improve one parameter and another one worsens. The art is in knowing where to make the best trade.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Susan Karlin	Certification Uncertainty Congratulations. You've got a bachelor's, a master's, and maybe even a doctorate in engineering, not to mention years of work experience. But do you need to jump on the certificate bandwagon?
IEEE Spectrum November 2006	Q&A With Bioengineer Tejal Desai Desai is a leader in a field with a big name -- biological microelectromechanical systems -- that deals with very small items. She uses the tools of semiconductor manufacturing to make minuscule medical devices, such as a miniature artificial pancreas and scaffolding for tissue regeneration.
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