Engineering

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CIO August 27, 2008 Kristin Burnham	5 Things iRobot President Helen Greiner Has Learned About Innovation Helen Greiner is president and co-founder of iRobot, a company that invents military and household robots. Innovation, she says, is the essence of her business.
IEEE Spectrum September 2008	Paper Transistor Researchers from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal, say they've made a transistor in which paper acts as a functional component.
Popular Mechanics September 2008	Inside a Student-Built FIRST Robot: Interactive How It Works Part battle-bot rally, part engineering crash course, FIRST Robotics takes science education out of classrooms and throws it into arenas packed with fans.
Chemistry World September 2008 Maria Burke	Something in the water Drugs have been finding their way into our water supplies for as long as they have been in use, so should we worry?
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Glenn Zorpette	Countering IEDS Billions of dollars spent on defeating improvised explosive devices are beginning to show what technology can and cannot do for the evolving struggle
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye	Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Malcolm Getz	Engineering Jobs Follow the Money But can engineers follow the jobs?
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Erico Guizzo	Defense Contractors Snap Up Submersible Robot Gliders U.S. Navy contract stirs interest in propellerless autonomous underwater vehicles
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Willie D. Jones	World's Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction One hundred tesla without self-destructing
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Robert W. Lucky	The Elusive Future Decades ago I never dreamed we would have satellite navigation, computers in our pockets, the Internet, cellphones, or robots that would explore Mars. How did all this happen, and what are we doing for our next trick?
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