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June 26, 2023

This Video-Game Engineer Answered the Call of Duty

by edd gent in Engineering, Engineering News

Landing a job in the video-game industry is a dream for many young engineers, but for Sushama Chakraverty, it was a happy accident. Back in 2001, she spotted a poster on her professor’s door advertising for an internship, and she applied without knowing the company she’d be working for. It turned out to be Atari, […]

June 19, 2023

MIT Unveils a Megawatt Motor for Electric Aircraft

by edd gent in Aerospace, Engineering, Engineering News

Aviation aims to slash some of its substantial carbon emissions by electrifying aircraft, but the industry’s stringent weight restrictions make this difficult. Building electric motors that match the power-to-weight ratios of jet engines has proven especially challenging, so most efforts have been restricted to smaller aircraft. A new compact lightweight design for a megawatt-scale motor […]

June 7, 2023

Nvidia Spools Up Quantum Jet Engine Simulations

by edd gent in Aerospace, Engineering, Engineering News

Simulating how air and gases flow through a jet engine is one of the most challenging computing problems in engineering. Engineers at Rolls-Royce think quantum computers could give these calculations a significant boost. So they’ve collaborated with Nvidia to simulate the largest ever quantum circuit for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). With scores of fan blades […]

February 8, 2023

How to Turn the Lights Back on After a Blackout

by edd gent in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

Restoring power quickly after a major blackout can mean the difference between life and death, but cold starting an entire electrical grid is a complex and delicate process. A hybrid computer model from Sandia National Laboratories that combines optimization, physical simulations, and cognitive models of grid operators promises to come up with a fast and […]

February 8, 2023

Cosmic Rays Can Now 3D-Scan Nuclear Reactors

by edd gent in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

Cosmic rays from deep space can help 3D-scan nuclear reactors, peering inside to see if they are safe, a new study finds. When high-energy particles known as cosmic rays hit Earth’s atmosphere, they can generate massive cousins of electrons known as muons. Muons constantly bombard Earth’s surface from every angle—roughly one muon hits every square […]

February 3, 2023

The Indian Startup Pulling Water From the Air

by edd gent in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

BENGALURU, India—Technology that can pull water out of thin air could help solve the world’s growing water scarcity problem, but most solutions are expensive and difficult to scale. Indian startup Uravu Labs says its low-cost modular approach could provide a blueprint for more affordable and sustainable atmospheric water harvesting. What comes out of the pipe, […]

January 7, 2023

Maxwell, NASA’s e-Plane, is Running out of Runway

by edd gent in Aerospace, Engineering, Engineering News

An experimental, potentially revolutionary all-electric airplane designed by NASA will soon be taking its first test flight, which will mark a major milestone for battery-powered aviation. However, the program already appears destined to fall short of its lofty goal to exploit the unique features of electric propulsion to rewrite the design rules for modern aircraft. […]

January 4, 2023

ChatGPT’s AI Can Help Screen For Alzheimer’s

by edd gent in Biomedical, Engineering, Engineering News

The AI-powered chat bot ChatGPT is taking the Internet by a storm with its impressive language capabilities, helping to draw up legal contracts as well as write fiction. But it turns out that the underlying technology could also help spot the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease, potentially making it possible to diagnose the debilitating condition […]

December 22, 2022

Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

by edd gent in Engineering, Engineering News

In a college classroom in the Indian city of Bangalore last August, Moiz Ahmed held up a volleyball-size chrome globe with a glass-covered opening at its center. Ahmed explained to the students that if they had their irises scanned with the device, known as the Orb, they would be rewarded with 25 Worldcoins, a soon-to-be […]

December 22, 2022

Introduction to High-Performance Digitizer Basics

by edd gent in Engineering, Engineering News

Join us for part one in our three-part series on the introduction to high-performance digitizer basics. This webinar will focus on explaining the differences between oscilloscope and digitizer, cover the different applications that benefit from digitizer solutions, and go through the architecture and the different building blocks of a data acquisition system using a high-performance […]

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