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Boston Toy Makers Pitch 3D Printing Pen
It’s become clear in the last few years that 3D technologies have changed the way we approach design and manufacturing. But while some are calling 3D printing the personal computer for a new generation, the rest of us may still be scratching our noggins, trying to figure out how tiny plastic knickknacks pumped out by Makerbots will help us get …
Rolls-Royce Jet Engine Built from 150,000 Lego Bricks
Got nothing to do this weekend? How about a little indoor project? Build a Rolls-Royce jet engine out of Lego maybe? Well, that’s just what apprentices and graduate engineers at Bright Bricks have done. Rolls-Royce appointed Bright Bricks to design and build a working one-half scale model of the Trent 1000 turbofan engine—the engine used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner—for …
Best Foot Forward: Smart Prosthesis Provides Better Lifestyle
Since it developed the Trustep Foot in 1990, College Park Industries has been hard at work designing and manufacturing a collection of custom-built foot and ankle prosthetics. What makes these feet different? An unparalleled range of motion. Whether you’re a skateboarder, dancer, runner or hiker, it’s a pretty sure bet College Park Industries has a foot for you. College Park …
High School Students Design Eco-Friendly Plane for Real World Design Challenge
For one group of students from Marlborough High School in Massachusetts it’s not been an average spring term. They’ve been given a challenge: to design a low-carbon-emission and environmentally friendly two-man sport aircraft that can fly at 1000 feet from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC), which began …
Engineering Titanic: Lessons Learned One-Hundred Years On
When IT leaders gather for his lectures expecting PowerPoint presentations rich with organizational trees and multicolored bar graphs, consultant Mark Kozak-Holland instead projects the image of a black ship’s prow sailing toward them out of dark and distant history. It’s a symbol that seems as unlikely for this era and this audience as it is notoriously well-known. Yet it’s surprisingly …
Engineered to Last – Fenway Park Turns One-Hundred
Outside the red-brick left-field wall of Boston’s Fenway Park is a little-noticed latticework of steel trusses that rises to the peak of the famous 37-foot Green Monster. The ingeniously engineered support, invisible from inside the stadium, allowed 274 highly prized (and pricey) seats to be added at the top of the wall. It’s the most obvious evidence of 10 winters …
Cool Characters: Engineers Take On Global Warming
A narrow hose made of composite fibers rises 18 miles over the Arctic. Supported by V-shaped balloons, it sprays 34 gallons per minute of sulfur dioxide into the earth’s stratosphere. Slowly, the aerosol reflects the sun’s rays back into space. The temperature cools. The Arctic ice stops melting. Sea levels stabilize, no longer threatening to rise and wipe out coastal …
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Brewing Up Some High-Tech Coffee
Like many professionals, I don’t (more truthfully, can’t) start my morning until I’ve had my first cup of coffee. It literally dictates the type of day I’m going to have; focused and alert versus zombie-like interactions. I’ve never been a fan of brewing my own cup. I don’t know whether it’s the clutter of yet another appliance on the kitchen …
Myomo Neuro-Robotic Arm Brace a Powerful Rehab Tool
Find a prevalent problem and solve it – any MBA worth their tuition will enthusiastically volunteer this as the surest way to start a successful company. What started in Woodie Flowers’ lab at MIT as research into prosthetics, became a solution for stroke victims struggling with hemiparesis. Named the mPower 1000, the Myomo (My Own Motion) neuro-robotic arm brace uses …
Robots Take Cue from Lizards and Dinosaurs
Engineers and biologists at the University of California, Berkeley have come together to build a new robot with a unique physical characteristic: a tail. The design of the appropriately named Tailbot—which looks like a toy car—is based on research of how lizards and dinosaurs move. The University of California, Berkeley team discovered that lizards use their tails to help guide …
