The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society recently elevated Maxine L. Savitz to eminent member, its highest membership status. Savitz is currently vice chair of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More than 200,000 electrical engineers, computer engineers, computer scientists, professionals, and students in […]
When Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, partially collapsed on the night of June 24, it was a disaster that no one expected. But one team, at least, was prepared for it. Since 2018, the National Science Foundation’s Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility (known as the RAPID) has provided […]
THE INSTITUTE When Mohamed El Dallal was 16, he probably would not have described himself as an entrepreneur. But the shy, self-described “software and technology geek” was already running a small business from his home in Alexandria, Egypt. That was in the 2000s, when Egypt had a closed economy. Access to computers wasn’t easy. El […]
Plant-based burgers that taste a heck of a lot like the real thing are now at your local Burger King. And you can find realistic meatless ground beef and sausages at grocery stores. As the next big thing in sustainable and cruelty-free meat, some startups are growing it in labs from animal cells. In December, […]
They used to call it “Seven Minutes of Terror”—a NASA probe would slice into the atmosphere of Mars at more than 20,000 kilometers per hour; slow itself with a heat shield, parachute, and rocket engines; and somehow land intact on the surface, just six or seven minutes later, while its makers waited helplessly on Earth. The computer-animated landing […]
Tucked under the belly of the Perseverance rover that will be landing on Mars in just a few days is a little helicopter called Ingenuity. Its body is the size of a box of tissues, slung underneath a pair of 1.2m carbon fiber rotors on top of four spindly legs. It weighs just 1.8kg, but […]
Every year for the past decade TomTom, the location technology company that supplies mapping and traffic data to navigation devices, carmakers, and apps around the world, releases an analysis of the world’s traffic. This analysis includes an index of congestion levels, created from data collected from 600 million drivers in 416 cities around the world, […]
The sailing speed record has been held for 8 years. A team of students and young engineers is in the process of developing a kiteboat to smash this record in 2022. Projected speed: 80 knots. The story of an audacious project told by two of its co-founders. SP80 At 3:30 a.m. on Lake Geneva last […]
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As a global manufacturer for machine components, Elesa have begun development for the robotics and automation industry.