Engineering

Magazine articles on engineering and how things work.

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Chemistry World May 1, 2007 Jessica Ebert	Pocket-sized PCR Machine Scientists in the U.S. report being one step closer to designing a miniaturized, portable PCR machine that could be used for applications such as point-of-care diagnostics.
Popular Mechanics May 2007	GM's Chevy Volt Plug-in Concept: How It Works 1. Gasoline Engine... 2. Generator... 3. Electric Motor... etc.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Tekla S. Perry	Medal of Honor: Thomas Kailath A professor emeritus at Stanford University, Kailath's algorithms re-engineered digital communications and semiconductor processing
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail	Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 G. Pascal Zachary	Thirst For Power Can thousands of small dams solve Africa's power crunch?
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Giselle Weiss	CERN's Discerning Detectors Detecting and processing Higgs boson particles has required scientists and engineers to develop silicon pixel sensors for a new kind of detector. The new device is the latest in several generations of electronic particle detectors introduced since the late 1960s.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007	Step Away From the Vehicle! An Australian physician welded a long aluminum tube to a home-built 5-kilowatt tesla coil, combined it with an old aircraft control motor, and mounted the whole thing atop a Hyundai to make a visually fantastic car theft deterrent.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007	At the Ace Awards, Engineers Are the Stars In April, some 600 engineers congregated at the Fairmont Hotel's Imperial Ballroom in San Jose for the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics Awards Gala. The ACE Awards attempt to give engineers their fair share of the limelight.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007	Computer Science, A Woman's Work Computer scientist extraordinaire Karen Sparck Jones, professor emeritus of computer and information at the University of Cambridge, died last month of cancer.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Michael Riordan	Tales of Nakamura In Brilliant!: Shuji Nakamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology, author Bob Johnstone weaves a lucid, captivating narrative around Nakamura's struggles to achieve his luminous dream.
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