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Fuel Cells on the Upswing

2015 could be at the start of something bigger for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Hyundai recently announced the arrival for lease of a fleet of Tucson FCEVs for the southern California market,...

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Transportation

Women in Vehicle Engineering

Cindy Hess rocketed through the Auburn University College of Engineering in just three years. Graduating as an electrical engineer in 1977, she turned down job offers from aerospace giants Boeing and General...

Original Equipment

Electronics & Computers

Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 Demonstrates Autonomous Technology

Given the worldwide desire to reduce road accident fatalities, it seems likely that the first applications of autonomous driving technologies will appear on heavy commercial...

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Electronics & Computers

Time-Of-Flight Cameras Detect Driver’s Gestures, Aid in Autonomy

Two major design trends, the push to provide more exotic human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and the march towards autonomous driving, are sparking interest in cameras not now...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Screens, Cameras Provide New Look in Cabs

Liquid crystal displays have rapidly gone from limited usage to mainstream, transforming human-machine interfaces (HMIs). Video images are being added to the diverse list of functions for these...

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Green Design & Manufacturing

WSU Team's Transportable Hydrogen Fueling Station Wins Design Contest

A group of students from Washington State University (WSU) won the Hydrogen Education Foundation’s 2014 Hydrogen Student Design Contest with plans for a transportable...

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Design

Buckeye Current’s TT Triumph

We huddled in a tight circle by the finish line, frantically waiting for radio updates on the progress of our team’s rider, Rob “Bullet” Barber, who was miles in the distance and closing fast. Our...

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Transportation

Discovery Sport Is First of Land Rover's New Discovery Family

Land Rover digitally revealed the first in a new Discovery family, the 2015 Discovery Sport SUV, on Sept. 2. The company claims a first in providing 5+2 seating in premium...

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Test & Measurement

Lotus Appoints Engineering Director

Lotus has hired the CEO of Millbrook Proving Ground in the U.K., Miguel Fragoso, as Engineering Director. Before his career at Millbrook, he held senior positions in engineering and corporate planning at...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Toyota Beefs up Research on Connected- and Automated-Vehicle Safety

Toyota announced on Sept. 4th that it will pump $35 million into its Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) in Ann Arbor, MI, to focus on safety technologies related...

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Automotive

Mazda Takes Wraps off 2016 MX-5 Miata

Mazda Motor Corp. on Wednesday evening unveiled the fourth-generation MX-5 Miata, which adopts both SkyActiv technology and Mazda’s “Kodo” (or "Soul of Motion") design language. The MX-5, first...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Agile Aperture Antenna Tested on Aircraft

Department of Defense representatives were in attendance during a recent event where two of the low-power devices, which can change beam directions in a thousandth of a second, were demonstrated in an...

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Design

Delphi Forms Technical Advisory Council

Delphi Automotive on Sept. 3 announced formation of a Technology Advisory Council designed to help guide the company's product strategies.

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Green Design & Manufacturing

Analyst Firm Doubtful of Tesla Gigafactory Value

Days before Tesla on Sept. 4 announced it has selected Nevada as the state in which it will build a large "Gigafactory' battery plant, Lux Research opined that the savings in lithium-ion...

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Defense

Army Selected for Joint Strike Fighter Software Assessment

The F-35 Joint Program Office has selected the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center to perform independent software safety analyses of the...

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Defense

Researchers Work to Create Smarter Underwater Drones

An underwater drone armed with the best technology on the planet descended repeatedly to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, trying to find the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and time...

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Power

Flywheel Hybrids Offer New Efficiency Potential

A decade ago, the current global requirements for future new-car CO2 emissions—USA 2025, 93g/km; EU 2020 95g/km (possibly 70g/km by 2025); China 2020, 117g/km; and Japan 2020,...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Toyota Ups Funding for Collaborative Safety Research Center

Many companies attempt to maximize research for proprietary gain. The purpose of Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) is a different thing altogether. CSRC...

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Automotive

Carbon-Fiber Concept Trailer from Great Dane Cuts Weight by 4000 Lb

The Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience is a prototype tractor-trailer developed to demonstrate the possibilities of future transport. Innovation and collaboration were key...

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Propulsion

Jaguar Reveals Long-Awaited Clean-Sheet Entry-Level XE

Hush-hush specialist media previews of new cars can be something of a marketing-led, frothy hype-fest. Not so Jaguar’s new XE sports sedan, shown in secrecy to this Automotive...

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Green Design & Manufacturing

China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab Formed

The University of California-Davis, and CATARC (China Automotive Technology and Research Center) will cooperate to speed commercialization of plug-in and fuel-cell electric cars in China and the U.S. under...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

SAE 2014 Convergence Preview

The marriage of vehicle electronics with mechanical systems is growing ever closer in intimacy, as the organizers of the first Convergence conference 40 years ago expected. Counseling on that relationship—and...

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Transportation

SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Super Driving Supercar

The words "supercar" and "plush ride" are usually not spoken in the same sentence. In this week's SAE Eye on Engineering, Senior Editor Lindsay Brooke tests a McLaren 650S with...

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Transportation

Kettering FSAE Team Improved as Season Progressed

This year brought many new challenges to the Kettering University Formula SAE team. Since the team’s previous chief engineer had left and other core members had graduated, members knew...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Hideaway Antennas for Aircraft

The modern airplane has become a flying antenna farm. Aerials and antennae have sprouted up all along airframes during the past few decades, some resembling wind-sculpted trees or truncated stumps, others flat...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Rotary Speed Sensor

The new RR25 rotary speed sensor from Dynapar, which targets agricultural applications in the off-highway vehicle market, uses proven Hall-IC technology to provide reliable service in demanding environments where...

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Automotive

Three-Channel Portable Data Acquisition System

Model 3340 G-Logger three-channel, portable data acquisition system from Silicon Designs Inc. (SDI) offers powerful Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis and display, as well as real-time...

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Imaging

Unmanned "Urban Beat Cop" Surveillance System Protects Soldiers

In a non-combat environment, information is typically collected by local law enforcement officers who are "walking their beat." Air Force expeditionary forces in Afghanistan...

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Aerospace

Testing Electric Propulsion

Could this be the future — a plane with many electric motors that can hover like a helicopter and fly like a plane, and that could revolutionize air travel?

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Imaging

Center Console Concept

Preh’s center console concept features navigation, HVAC, and infotainment functions in an effort to facilitate drivers’ function selection in the cockpit, all while reducing driver distraction. The “touchless”...

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Transportation

TRW to Operate as Separate Business Under ZF Acquisition Terms

Germany's ZF has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire U.S.-based TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. for $13.5 billion, according to a Sept. 15 TRW press release. ZF has...

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Automotive

In Search of the Lightweight, Multi-Material Car

Automotive researchers and engineers are looking for ways to knock the fat off nearly every part of a vehicle in their efforts to achieve higher fuel economy.

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Electronics & Computers

Automotive Ethernet Guide

Intrepid Control Systems’ new book Automotive Ethernet - The Definitive Guide describes the technology behind the biggest revolution in automotive networking since the 1980s. Ethernet, the most widely used local...

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Transportation

Mercedes-AMG’s SLS Departure Opens Door to New GT

How can Mercedes-AMG top its gull-winged SLS that has just eased out of production? It doesn’t try. Instead, the SLS "replacement" is less costly, less radical, more practical, but still...

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Transportation

Book Examines Autonomous Technologies

Over the years, the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Challenges in the U.S. have galvanized interest in autonomous cars, making them a real possibility in the mind of the public, but...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Polymer-Cathode Tantalum Capacitors

With the recent focus on the efficiency of vehicle electronics, automotive manufacturers are looking for tantalum capacitors with lower equivalent series resistance (ESR). Polymer-cathode tantalum capacitors...

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Propulsion

Cooled EGR Shows Benefits for Gasoline Engines

“EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) systems now in use on diesel engines were used to meet emissions regulations. In gasoline engines, we think they are an ideal way to meet stricter fuel...

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Hitachi Updates Dump Trucks with More Comfort and Serviceability Features

Many legacy features are continued on Hitachi Construction Machinery's most recent version of its EH1100 rigid dump truck, the EH1100-5, such as the long-life and...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Flexible Circuit Technology

Q-Prime from Multek Flexible Circuits Inc. is a flexible circuit technology developed specifically for applications where efficient heat dispersion is required and is especially useful for LED applications....

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Electronics & Computers

120dB Lens for HDR Sensors

Sunex NoGhost 120-dB lenses are the first and only lenses designed, optimized, and tested for use in cameras using high dynamic range (HDR) image sensors, claims the company. With the increased dynamic range for HDR...

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Transportation

Lexus Equips NX Entry-Level SUV with New Turbo Gasoline Engine

Development of the concept that became the newest and fourth entry into Lexus’s line of SUVs, the compact NX, began in 2009, though the design was finished relatively...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Ethernet Audio-Video Bridging

Excelfore enables simplified audio-video interconnectivity using Ethernet audio-video bridging (AVB), which leads to lower cost and system weight for infotainment systems in vehicles. Connectivity is simplified by...

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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Accelerating Racecar Innovation

Prior to this year’s Indianapolis 500, the 48th annual BorgWarner Louis Schwitzer Award was awarded for innovation and engineering excellence in race car design. Claiming the award, for the second time, was...

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Electronics & Computers

Boeing, Liquid Robotics Team on Solutions for Maritime Surveillance

Boeing and Liquid Robotics have signed a global, multi-year teaming agreement to develop total integrated solutions for anti-submarine warfare, maritime domain awareness,...

Technical Innovation

RF & Microwave Electronics

Enerdel Goes Off-Road with Its Hard-Carbon Lithium-Ion Battery Technology

At Smarter Shows' recent Battery Show in Novi, MI, EnerDel Inc. showcased two applications for its battery technologies.

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Materials

Mercedes Shows Its Metal and Chooses Steel over Aluminum

In many areas of vehicle construction and components it has become increasingly common for automakers to shift away from steel to embrace aluminum in pursuit of reduced weight. But...

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Transportation

Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C Triton UAS Enters Next Phase of Testing

The first U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) recently flew 11 hours from the Northrop Grumman facility in Palmdale, CA, to the Naval Air Station Patuxent...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

ULA, Blue Origin to Develop New American Rocket Engine

United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Blue Origin LLC, a privately funded aerospace company owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, have entered into an agreement to jointly fund development...

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Electronics & Computers

Northrop Grumman Chosen to Develop AESA Technology for DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Northrop Grumman to develop and demonstrate advanced wideband digital antenna technology for next generation radio...

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Defense

Aerojet Rocketdyne Establishes Hydrocarbon R&D Office in Alabama

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced the establishment of an Advanced Hydrocarbon Propulsion Development Office (AHPDO) in Huntsville, AL. The facility will focus on delivering a...

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Transportation

QT-Steels Make an Impact

Modern quenched and tempered (QT) steels bring a lot to the off-highway industry, particularly for dump trucks. For one, when combined with the proper design concept, their use contributes to the lightweighting of...

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Transportation

Ford’s Market 'Fusion' Creates Mondeo for Europe

High-technology safety systems and a very wide span of powertrains—including a new bi-turbo diesel—are two of the star aspects of Ford’s new U.S. Fusion-based Mondeo for Europe.

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Electronics & Computers

Continental Looks to EHorizon for Fully Automated Vehicles

Intelligent commercial vehicles will play an important role in helping the industry achieve success tied to the key themes that surfaced at the 65th IAA Commercial Vehicles in...

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Math to Road Cycle Is Similar Yet Diverse for Trains, Trucks, and Tractors

Product engineering projects are always circular. As new versions evolve, data that comes back to design teams is incorporated into the next iteration. Panelists at...

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Manned Systems

Avionics Software Enhancement

The FAA has granted Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval for Universal Avionics SBAS-Flight Management System/Multi-Missions Management System (FMS / MMMS) Software Control Number 1001/1101. This software...

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Electronics & Computers

2015 VW Golf GTE Plug-In Hybrid Is a Smooth Operator

Seamless is a much used, and abused, word in the automotive industry—whether it refers to the gearshift quality of an automatic transmission, the deactivation and reactivation of...

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Automotive

OEMs Planning Major Platform Consolidations by 2021, Says IHS

The industry outlook for 2021 underscores increasing engineering efficiency, with OEMs relying on fewer vehicle architectures in global markets, according to an IHS Automotive...

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Automotive

Infusing Lightweight Composite Structures

Liquid resin infusion (LRI) is a proven manufacturing technology for both small- and large-scale structures for which, in most cases, experience and limited prototype experimentation is sufficient...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Intelligent Manufacturing Software

The CNC system solution IndraMotion MTX from Rexroth has enhanced functionalities through Open Core Engineering. With Open Core Engineering, Rexroth enhances classic PLC programming by bridging the gap to IT...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Mechatronic System Production on the Uptick at Brose's Michigan Plant

A supplier of mechatronic vehicle systems has invested more than $60 million for the purchase and renovation of a 381,700-ft² (35,500-m²) plant in New Boston, MI.

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Elbit Systems Takes to the Skies to Demonstrate SkyVis

Elbit Systems recently completed a series of successful helicopter flight tests in Zurich, using the SkyVis head-mounted display (HMD) onboard an AW-109SP helicopter of the Swiss air...

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Aerospace

Rotary Transformer Coupled Torque Sensors

The Model T261 series rotary transformer coupled torque sensors from SensorData Technologies meet the demanding inline testing requirements of small motors, pumps, compressors, turbines, fans, and...