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A View Inside Volkswagen's Silicon Valley Lab
On July 1, Volkswagen renamed its Silicon Valley outpost. The former Electronics Research Lab (ERL) based in Belmont, Calif., now is the Innovation and Engineering Center California (IECC)....

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BlackBerry Tech Duo Sees Emergence of Vehicle-Based Platforms
At the recent TU automotive conference in Novi, Michigan, Automotive Engineering had the opportunity to sit down with two of the industry’s most important software sages,...

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2019 Hyundai Kona Ultimate AWD
The Hyundai Kona was named the 2019 North American Utility Vehicle of the Year (NAUVOY), sharing this accolade with its EV version which we had a positive impression of during its launch event. During a...

Road Ready Automotive
2020 Hyundai Palisade: New Chassis, Atkinson V6
The three-row 2020 Hyundai Palisade’s strong, stable and quiet body structure serves as the starting point for ride quality, roll control and a quiet cabin. “We put a lot of resources...

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New SMARTCenter Opens as North America’s Largest AV Test Facility
As notions advance regarding the evolving needs and requirements of automated-vehicle (AV) testing, there’s a concurrent focus on the capabilities available from the...

Application Briefs Defense
Ruggedized Bioprinter
nScrypt Inc.
Orlando, FL
407-275-4755
www.nscrypt.com
nScrypt has partnered with the U.S. Military, the Uniformed Services University 4D Bio3 Program, and The Geneva Foundation to move bioprinting out...

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Spatiotemporal Imaging Exploiting Structured Sparsity
Spatiotemporal imaging contains a large class of imaging problems, which involve collecting a sequence of data sets to resolve both the spatial and temporal (or spectral) distributions of...

Briefs Aerospace
Ultrafast Optics: Vector Cavity Lasers — Physics and Technology
Fiber lasers have found widespread applications in industrial material processing, scientific research and military systems due to their advantages of easy maintenance,...

Articles Aerospace
Air Caster Technology
If there is a prime example of the need for friction-free, precise and delicate equipment movement in the aerospace and defense industries, satellite positioning during the testing cycle should be at the top of the...

Articles Energy
Shape-Shifting Origami Could Help Antenna Systems Adapt On-the-Fly
Conventional reconfigurable electrical and radio frequency (RF) structures commonly used in applications involving real-time reconfigurability in response to fast varying...

Briefs Defense
Integration of Adaptive Optics Into High-Energy Laser Modeling And Simulation
The U.S. Navy is constantly predicting future threats and contemplating new weapon technologies to counter them. One of those technologies is directed-energy (DE)...

News Propulsion
Engineering the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette
Two days before the 50th anniversary of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s leap for mankind and 10 years after General Motors emerged from bankruptcy, the camouflage was finally ripped from the...

Articles Aerospace
Operational Considerations for High-Reliability Interconnects in Military and Aerospace Applications
In the recent past, military acquisition has shifted from being locked into large long-term contracts to developing complex systems in...

Application Briefs Propulsion
Ultra-Light Rocket Launchers
Arnold Defense
Arnold, MO
636-296-5417
www.arnolddefense.com
Arnold Defense has been awarded a $53.8 million contract for the delivery of 2.75-inch rocket launchers and sub components to support...

Articles Aerospace
NASA Eyes GPS at the Moon for Artemis Missions
The Global Positioning System (GPS), a satellite-based navigation system used by an estimated four billion people worldwide to figure out where they are on Earth at any moment, could be used to...

Application Briefs Test & Measurement
Data Recorder and Mission Computer
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Ashburn, VA
703-779-7800
www.curtisswrightds.com
Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solutions division was awarded a contract by Tactical Air Support, Inc. (Tactical Air)...

Articles Power
Acceleration Resistant HiK Heat Spreader
As electronic technologies advance in defense and aerospace applications, heat fluxes are becoming larger and more centralized[1,2]. In order to...

Application Briefs Aerospace
Flight Computer
Abaco Systems
Huntsville, AL
866-652-2226
www.abaco.com
Abaco Systems’ FORCE2 flight computer has been chosen by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to be at the heart of GA-ASI's...

Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
ZF’s Autonomous Systems Head Takes a Pragmatic View of the ‘Levels’ Playing Field
“We are constantly asking this question: Who is the customer likely to buy an SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicle in the consumer passenger market?”...

Products Electronics & Computers
New Products
Mobile Workstation
Eurocom's (Ottawa, Canada) latest mobile workstation, the Tornado F7W, features a modular MXM 3.1 slot-based GPU allowing easy reconfiguration of GPU capabilities. The GPUs offered are ISV-certified,...

Application Briefs Software
3D Optical Scanner
NVision, Inc.
Southlake, TX
817-416-8006
www.nvision3d.com
Swift work by NVision, Inc. helped a major U.S. airline quickly repair a bird-damaged Boeing 737 wing and return the restored jet back to flight...

Application Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Rugged Network File Servers
Ampex Data Systems
Hayward, CA
650-367-2011
www.ampex.com
Ampex Data Systems (Ampex), a Delta Information Systems Company, recently received a Full Rate Production Lot 7 (FRP-7) contract from...

Briefs Photonics/Optics
3D Meta-Optics for High-Energy Lasers
The scope of this research radically changed the way novel components are designed and fabricated for high-energy applications. This 3D Meta-Optics platform was, and is, essentially engineering the...

Articles Photonics/Optics
Understanding Fiber Optic Transceiver Design and Test Rules
The design of avionics systems must balance several factors. First, engineers want to increase the performance of the systems installed in aircraft or spacecraft. Second, they want...

Technical Innovation Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Ford Revisits OHV Layout, Big Displacement for New Commercial-Truck V8
In a still-heated market for highly profitable heavy-duty pickups and commercial vehicles, Ford doesn’t intend to be outdone by General Motors’ and...

News Weapons Systems
Collins Aerospace Provides Avionics for C-130H Modernization Program
The Lockheed C-130H Hercules fleet operated by the Air National Guard and U.S. Air Force Reserve is getting new Collins Aerospace Systems avionics that will help...

News Aerospace
Air Force Begins 3D Printing Nonstructural Aircraft Parts
The 60th Maintenance Squadron (60th MXS) at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, is the first field unit in the United States Air Force to produce approved...

News Connectivity
A Legal Profile of Facial Recognition
Whether it’s using your face to confirm payment over your smartphone, monitoring your child at day-camp, or being confirmed as a ticketholder going to a concert, the possibilities for facial...

News Manned Systems
The Vehicle as a Gaming Device
From the moment I slipped the Oculus Rift device over my head, I was transported from a routine urban drive in the backseat of an Audi Q7 into an enchanting underwater world. The Virtual Reality (VR)...

News Software
Improving Lidar – or Defeating It
For more than a decade, the lidar market has been led by Velodyne and its spinning towers of 64 or 128 laser beams. But the relatively high cost, delicate architecture, and beefy form factor have made...

News RF & Microwave Electronics
Siemens Digital Industries Software Debuts, Focuses on Delivering Digital Future of Industry Today
Siemens PLM Software has transformed into Siemens Digital Industries Software, reaffirming its focus on enabling digital industries and...

News Transportation
Volkswagen to Launch 2nd-Gen Car-Net Connected-Car Services for MY2020
The second generation of Volkswagen’s Car-Net connected car services for North America is set to launch for MY 2020. Built on a new Internet of Things (IoT)...

News Energy
Electric-Truck Startup Rivian Gets Big Amazon Order
Before it’s produced a single production vehicle, electric-vehicle (EV) startup Rivian – most recognized for the radical R1T pickup truck it first unveiled at the 2018 Los Angeles...

News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Diesel Darkness Won’t Go Away
Although it may takes years to avoid instantly associating the words “diesel” and “scandal,” Volkswagen – the auto company most closely linked with the diesel emissions-cheating scheme that...

News Electronics & Computers
Rethinking ADAS Materials
Advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) technologies – including automatic emergency braking, collision avoidance, adaptive cruise control and parking assist – are quickly going mainstream. OEMs,...

News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Harman Using Empathy to Help Elevate the User Experience
In-car connectivity for today’s cars and tomorrow’s autonomous vehicles is moving product development norms beyond the traditional engineering approach. “Most products are...

News Regulations/Standards
Getting Driverless Trucks onto Roadways
The developers who are creating autonomous systems have plenty of complex technical questions that must be analyzed and solved, but their challenges don’t stop there. Design teams also have to...

Q&A Power
Engineering Battery Packs for the ‘Underserved’ OEMs
Few battery experts in the mobility industry can match the engineer/entrepreneur spirit of Subash Dhar. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Dhar is co-inventor of over 45 patents and patent applications in the field of advanced batteries and fuel cell technologies.

INSIDER Aerospace
Platform Converts Standard Aircraft to UAV, and Back
The Robotic Pilot Unmanned Conversion Program (ROBOpilot) converts a general aviation aircraft into an unmanned vehicle and then returns it back to its original configuration – all...

INSIDER Aerospace
Sensor Could be Game-Changer in Airline Safety
A new sensor, that can detect ice accumulation in real-time, might be a game-changer when it comes to airline safety and efficiency. The sensor could detect the precise moment when ice...

INSIDER Aerospace
Safe, Inexpensive Way to Propel CubeSats
Finding inexpensive solutions for propelling CubeSats is one of the most critical components of the rapidly growing industry of commercial launches of satellites the size of a loaf of bread....

INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
Developing IR Materials as Signaling Tools for Military Operations
Battle Sight Technologies has acquired a second patent license related to infrared materials as signaling tools for nighttime military operations.

INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
Army Showcases New Electronic Warfare Tech
The Army is advancing its ground-based precision navigation and timing (PNT) technology to counter spoofing threats and improve operations in a multi-domain environment.

INSIDER Test & Measurement
Experiments Differentiate Between Underground Nuclear Tests and Earthquakes
Sandia National Laboratories researchers, as part of a group of National Nuclear Security Administration scientists, have wrapped up years of field experiments...

Articles Energy
The New Gas Tank: Constellium Preps Its First OEM Battery Tray
The “gas tank” is about to get a lot more sophisticated. Electric vehicle (EV) battery trays are highly-engineered components that barely existed a few years ago but...

News Power
Volkswagen Signals New EV Era with Launch of ID.3
Multi-brand, multinational automotive powerhouse Volkswagen crossed a strategic inflection point when its all-new ID.3 electric vehicle (EV) was revealed at the 2019 Frankfurt auto show....

News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Protean Electric Aims for Pirouetting Autonomous EVs
Designing and engineering 360º steering capability for a production autonomous electric vehicle (EV) is no mean feat. But Protean Electric also combines this pirouetting capability...

News Manned Systems
Mercedes-Benz EQS Concept: The S-Class of Electric Vehicles?
The Mercedes-Benz S-Class for decades helped form the automotive definition for “flagship.” With electric propulsion seemingly set to revolutionize the industry, the...

News Energy
Fuel-Cell Nanoparticle Clusters May Cut Platinum Catalyst Costs
Fuel-cell technology is a big subject with some very small but vital aspects, one of which is the size of atomic platinum clusters. Reduce these and the amount of platinum...

News Power
Transmissions, Axles Aid in Fuel Conservation for Commercial Vehicles
Transmissions and axles are evolving rapidly as powertrain design teams push to reduce fuel consumption. Intelligent transmission controls are communicating with...

INSIDER Materials
Coating Improves Pilots’ Visibility in Rainstorms
An Air Force Research Laboratory-developed product called HydroSkip repels water from aircraft transparencies, addressing the issue of limited visibility caused by heavy rain that can...

INSIDER Propulsion
Safer Electric Solid Propellants for Rocket Engines
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and NASA conducted experiments to understand the behavior of a...

INSIDER Aerospace
Supersonic Aircraft Window Goes Virtual
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft will eliminate the cockpit’s forward-facing window, replacing it with the eXternal Visibility System (XVS) that uses a 4K monitor...

News Connectivity
Honda Ready with New Injury-Reducing Airbag
Starting next year, Honda will begin fitting vehicles with a new, advanced-design passenger-side front airbag that its engineers said is designed to mitigate brain and neck injuries by...

Road Ready Energy
New-Generation Nissan Versa Breaks for Higher Ground
Subcompact cars hardly are spotlight-grabbers at the moment, but Nissan has nonetheless delivered up an all-new 2020 Versa that notches higher fuel economy, quicker acceleration,...

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What Really Changed: A Look at the Updated FDA Guidance Document...
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Electrifying Off-Highway Drivetrains
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NVH Prediction in Electric Powertrains: Considering Inverter and...
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Precision, Control and Repeatability: Harnessing the Power of UV Curing in...