engineering

Diamond, at 10 on the Mohs scale, is the hardest material in nature. Now, the results of joint research led by the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) shows potential for the use of strained diamonds in advanced functional devices in…

TIES funder and lead of the STEM Learning Ecosystem Community of Practice, plans to hold two Town Hall discussions for members of its 94 STEM Ecosystems and others to discuss the nation's STEM needs. Featuring Erik Nikolaus Martin,…

MIT just developed a system that optimizes a robot’s shape based on an application’s intended terrain. The system simulates different shapes to establish which design is best for what the robot must do and where they will do it. Dubbed…

Image courtesy of STMicroelectronics STMicroelectronics has added support for FreeRTOS™ thread-aware debugging to its STM32CubeIDE development environment, giving users more power to complete their projects quickly and easily. Support…

When a premium German automotive OEM put out a call for tenders, Farasis Energy, a Chinese-American battery provider, won in record time. How? By removing the prototyping step from its process. Instead, the company relied on ESI Group, a…

Engineers are a critical part of this world we live in and it is through their inventions that we gain access to innovative technology. Some of these inventions even have the potential to change lives dramatically. Let’s take a look at…

A team from Indiana University teamed up with LinkedIn to create the very first global map of labor flow. Labor flow is simply the movement of people transitioning between jobs and firms. The results offer a powerful tool for understanding…

The word "smart" is now applied to everyday objects: smartphones, smart TVs, smart appliances -- and even, smart buildings. But the idea of the smart building is still new. There is no accepted definition yet, but one of the best…

As we’re poised on the brink of truly entering the field of quantum computing, the resources needed to embrace its potential continue to be daunting. Now, an interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, and computer scientists at the…

Aside from all of the other important background noise that makes our cellphones run, there's something called the fast Fourier transform running on it, too. The FFT, as it is known, is a signal-processing algorithm that you use more…