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'Smart materials' process promises to revolutionize manufacturing of medical devices, other products
A new "smart materials" process -- Multiple Memory Material Technology -- promises to revolutionize the manufacture of diverse products such as medical devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), printers, hard drives, automotive components, valves and actuators. The breakthrough technology will provide engineers with much more freedom and creativity by enabling far greater functionality to be incorporated into medical devices such as stents, braces and hearing aids than is currently possible.
ScienceDaily: Engineering News, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:11 GMT

Miniature auto differential helps tiny aerial robots stay aloft
Engineers have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, and other places too perilous for people. Their new approach is the first to passively balance the aerodynamic forces encountered by these miniature flying devices, letting their wings flap asymmetrically in response to gusts of wind, wing damage, and other real-world impediments.
ScienceDaily: Engineering News, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:11 GMT

New pump created for microneedle drug-delivery patch
Researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of "microneedles" to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches.
ScienceDaily: Engineering News, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:11 GMT

Robotic Storm Tracker Gets a Big Test with Earl

The largest-ever storm monitoring mission is now gathering scientific data that was previously impossible to get.

As Hurricane Earl barrels toward the eastern seaboard of the United States, coastal residents don't know if they should evacuate in case the storm makes landfall. They rely on forecasters analyzing computer models, but those predictions differ. A new hurricane-monitoring mission that's now underway hopes to reduce this uncertainty by gathering atmospheric and environmental storm data never before obtained.



Technology Review RSS Feeds, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:12 GMT

NASA satellite sees Tropical Storm Kompasu transitioning over Korea and China
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Terra satellite captured the changing Tropical Storm Kompasu over Korea and China very early today, as it makes its way east to northern Japan. It is becoming extratropical.
EurekAlert! - Technology, Engineering and Computer Science, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:12 GMT

Iowa State chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass
(Iowa State University) Walter Trahanovsky, an Iowa State professor of chemistry, was trying to produce sugar derivatives from biomass using high-temperature chemistry. He was surprised when his research also produced significant yields of high-value chemicals.
EurekAlert! - Technology, Engineering and Computer Science, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:12 GMT

NASA sees Depression Nine become Gaston then back to a depression
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Depression Nine strengthened yesterday into Tropical Storm Gaston, but today it ran into dry and stable air and weakened back into a depression again.
EurekAlert! - Technology, Engineering and Computer Science, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:12 GMT

Bermuda in warnings as the GOES-13 Satellite catches Fiona approaching
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Bermuda has warnings up as Tropical Storm Fiona approaches, and GOES-13 satellite imagery from today shows that Fiona, although packing a punch, is a much smaller system that her brother, the Category 4 Hurricane Earl.
EurekAlert! - Technology, Engineering and Computer Science, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:12 GMT

What have engineers learned from Katrina?
Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, James N. Jensen, PhD, University at Buffalo professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, says that probably the biggest lesson learned from that disaster was that municipalities and citizens now take orders to evacuate much more seriously.
Engineering News at iCivilEngineer.com, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:12 GMT

Will New Levees Protect New Orleans From the Next Hurricane?
Professor Bob Bea, one of the country's top civil engineers -- whom President Barack Obama has asked to help investigate the Deepwater Horizon incident -- says the New Orleans levees and floodwalls today are still not a "system." Bea, who teaches at the University of California Berkeley, says "it is still a patchwork quilt."
Engineering News at iCivilEngineer.com, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:12 GMT

Can New Orleans' Revamped Levee System Withstand Next Storm?
A second Katrina story on the state of levees and flood protection by PBS.
Engineering News at iCivilEngineer.com, Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:12 GMT

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