Engineering

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Inc. August 2004 Jess McCuan	NASA Offers Free Rocket Scientists A relatively new outreach program offers small companies up to 40 hours of high-tech and engineering advice. The program has received 2,000 requests since its founding, and NASA's engineers have effectively "solved" 1,400 of them.
Reactive Reports July 2004 David Bradley	Pure Nanotubes Researchers have developed a novel technique that allows them to purify carbon nanotubes and to sort those that are semiconducting from the metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes.
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Researchers Optimistic About `Liquid Armor' After two decades of research, Army engineers may be getting closer to developing "liquid armor," which one day could be used to make military bulletproof garments.
National Defense August 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Robotic `Exoskeletons' Could Help Soldiers Bear Heavier Loads Researchers are edging closer to fielding a gas-powered system that will permit soldiers to effortlessly carry hundreds of pounds of equipment on the battlefield.
National Defense August 2004	Professorial Challenge Yields a Robot Four undergraduate engineering students have developed a remote-controlled robot that is armed with a color camera and a paint marker. The prototype will be shown to the U.S. Army.
National Defense August 2004	Academe Invents 'Brain' for Navy Robots U.S. and Russian scientists developed a brain-based controller for Navy unmanned underwater vehicles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	Adaptive Optics Blends the Best of Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies This approach uses deformable mirrors, MEMS, or liquid-crystal technologies to adjust for optical distortion in the atmosphere, which yields a new level of focus and resolution to high-energy lasers, deep-space exploration, and perhaps even eye surgery.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 Ben Ames	Power Control is Trickier Than it Used to be Modern military equipment must be reliable and inexpensive, as designers rely on electronic components to ensure high performance on the digital battlefield.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2004 Tonya Vinas	Making Waves Dubbed the 'third wave' of biotechnology, after medicine and agriculture, industrial biotechnology is promising to reshape manufacturing.
Technology Research News July 14, 2004 Eric Smalley	Quantum crypto network debuts The network is the first step toward bringing the potentially perfect security of quantum cryptography to the Internet.
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