Engineering

Magazine articles on engineering and how things work.

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Financial Advisor February 2007 Raymond Fazzi	Engineering Profit The 87-year-old co-founder of Affinity Wealth Management and former U.S. Navy engineer started as an inventor, then managed investments.
Geotimes February 2007 Cobb et al.	Rolling Across the Roof of the World The new rail connection to Tibet is a remarkable geotechnical achievement. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway brings greater access to the Tibetan Plateau -- which is good news to geoscientists wanting to see this fantastic and still remote part of the world.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 John Voelcker	Electric Power Steals the Show The annual Detroit Auto Show offered a feast of technology, and the best dish of all was an electric-drive concept called the Chevrolet Volt.
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Brad Reagan	The Panama Canal's Ultimate Upgrade To handle booming maritime traffic and super sized ships, the engineering marvel called the big ditch is about to get a lot bigger.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2007 John Teresko	I, Microsoft By providing a common development platform, Microsoft hopes to expand the potential for robotics.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2007 John Teresko	Robots, Computers And Education At Georgia Tech, students are assigned their own personal robots.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2007 John Teresko	Humanoid Robots Next? The ultimate goal of RoboCup 2007 is to develop a team of fully autonomous, humanoid robots that can defeat the human world champion team in soccer by the year 2050.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Peter Fairley	Nuclear Wasteland With visions of nuclear electricity "too cheap to meter" long gone, the case for breeder reactors has shifted from creation of new fuels to management of spent fuels. The French are recycling nuclear waste. Should other countries follow suit?
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 James Oberg	Putting up the Ritz What happens when a real estate tycoon who's made a pile of money starts thinking really big? In the case of Robert Bigelow, he starts working out a way to build hotels in outer space. And he just might be smart enough, rich enough, and driven enough to pull it off.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Marlowe Hood	E-Newspapers: Digital Deliverance? Dozens of major newspapers are experimenting with electronic reading devices. The only sure thing about the future of e-newspapers is that the readers, editorial content, and business ideas will keep evolving quickly.
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