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Zero-Emissions Electric Aircraft: Theory vs Reality
Many different electrically propelled aircraft have been or are soon to be flying. Recently a zero-emissions electric aircraft, Solar Impulse, flew around the world with zero fuel. However,...
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Connected-Car Test Solution
Anritsu Co. (Richardson, TX) introduces Cellular Module Test Application (CMTA) software for its Signaling Testers MD8475A/B, which provides test cases to simplify testing chipsets and automotive-related telematics...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Molded Current Sense Resistors
The new SLN5 molded current sense resistor line from KOA Speer Electronics (Bradford, PA) features a 7-watt power rating in 4527 size. Used primarily for current detection, the SLN5 resistor is suitable for...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Polymer Range for Electronics
Solvay Engineering Plastics (Brussels, Belgium), a global specialist in polyamide-based engineering plastics, has developed a new Technyl range for the demanding environment of automotive electronic applications....
Global Vehicles Transportation
All-New 2017 Porsche Panamera Moves to VW Modular Platform
Creating any new Porsche is one of the most challenging design and engineering tasks in the auto industry. Whether sports car, sedan or SUV it has to embody the essence of the...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Molded Seals
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (Minneapolis, MN) features a large inventory of standard size molded Quad Brand family of products including Quad O-Rings, Quad-Rings and Quad Rubber Balls for sealing in a range of industry applications. The sealing products are offered in select sizes in small to large quantities for 48-hour lead time...
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Revving up Thermal Characterization in the Component Lab
The dangers of faulty car airbags recently have become all too clear. The product-liability issues associated with airbags and the largest, most costly automotive recall in history...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Smart Force Sensor
Design engineers can now rapidly evaluate and deploy new human-machine interface devices using Maxim Integrated Products’ MAXREFDES82# smart force sensor reference design, according to the company. Typical weigh scales...
Q&A Propulsion
Sustainable Transformation—the Daimler Way
Interviewed by Automotive Engineering European Editor Stuart Birch, Anke Kleinschmit, Vice President Group Research and Sustainability and Chief Environmental Officer, Daimler AG, addressed...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
JLR Prepares to Leave the Road — Autonomously
JaguarLandRover engineers are confident that when a driver of one of their future all-terrain autonomous vehicles wants to leave the pavement, technology will continue to provide guidance...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
BMW I3 Battery Replacement Is $16,000
What happens if you buy an electric car and, at some point in your ownership, have to replace the battery?
Technology Report Green Design & Manufacturing
GM, Honda Execs Agree: Higher Octane Gas Needed to Optimize ICE Efficiency
Raising the octane level of pump gasoline in the U.S. is integral to optimizing advanced combustion engines now in development, said GM and Honda executives at the 2016...
News Transportation
Tenneco's Predictive Active Ride Control May Doom the Anti-Roll Bar
Are the anti-roll bar’s days numbered? The answer is probably “yes” — at least for premium-model cars and light trucks, as advanced active ride control systems that...
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In Aftertreatment, less Is More
For design teams focused on aftertreatment, reducing package size has become almost as important as removing emissions. Combining catalysts, improving filters and integrating sensors are a few of the...
News Transportation
First Chevrolet Medium-Duty Truck Rolls off Assembly Line at Spartan Motors
Spartan Motors, along with General Motors and Isuzu Commercial Truck of America executives, celebrated the new Chevrolet medium-duty, gasoline-powered trucks as the...
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Big-Time 3D Printing: Building an Excavator, Layer by Layer
3D printing a car is impressive enough; building an excavator, layer by layer, is downright unimaginable. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have not only imagined...
Briefs Test & Measurement
The Effect of Substrate Emissivity on the Spectral Emission of a Hot-Gas Overlayer
Recently, in operando optical investigations of high temperature solid oxide electrochemical cells (SOECs) have gained significant traction with several research...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Process Approach to Determining Quality Inspection Deployment
As new technologies are implemented in manufacturing areas, inspection processes will be affected. Often because product quality has increased or automated inspection equipment has...
Briefs Defense
Experimental Setup to Assess Blast and Penetration- Induced Secondary Debris in a Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) Environment
As part of Project Agreement on Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT), the US Army Research...
Briefs Aerospace
Non-Contact Circuit for Real-Time Electric and Magnetic Field Measurements
An energized electric power cable generates low-frequency electric and magnetic fields that are related to the voltages and currents. Especially at wavelengths...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Seeing the Light
In order to meet the requirements of current-generation military ruggedized displays and monitors, various technology innovations have been developed that allow for an enhanced user experience. Accommodating all of these needs...
Articles Aerospace
Multiple Node Networking Using PCIe Interconnects
PCI Express (PCIe) interconnects, and how they can be used to support multiple node low latency data transfers over copper or optical cables, is gaining momentum in embedded computing solutions....
Articles Aerospace
Analyzing Radar Signals with Demodulation
In the electronic warfare milieu, one of the most common RF applications is that of radar systems. Radar, which uses RF energy to determine the range, angle, and/or velocity of objects, detects...
Articles Defense
Combining Software and Hardware for Highly Specialized Multichannel Spectrum Monitoring
Systems specifically designed for spectrum monitoring applications typically acquire RF signals from a reference antenna or downlink, analyze the shape (or...
Articles Aerospace
Advanced Thermal Management Solutions
Now more than ever, devices with increasing power and smaller footprints are demanding a good stable cost effective thermal management solution. Fortunately many options are available today. However, for...
Articles Aerospace
Thermoelectric Cooling
There are many places one can go to get an outline on the pros and cons of different methods for enclosure cooling. Although we will briefly touch on them here, this is really an in-depth article on how to choose a...
Articles Aerospace
Thermal Ground Planes Optimizing Heat Transfer in Aerospace and Defense Applications
Wide band gap (WBG) semiconductors are semiconductor materials that allow higher voltages, higher frequencies and operation at higher temperatures over...
Articles Aerospace
Thermal Management of Laser Diodes
High-power laser diodes can generate a great deal of heat. Even for laser diodes operating with 70% or higher efficiency, a large amount of applied energy is converted to heat. Since the performance and...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Avionics Upgrades
ARC® Avionics Corporation (ARC) Kirkland, WA 425-576-5030www.arcavionics.com/ ARC® Avionics Corporation (ARC), a wholly-owned business unit of AirSpeed® Engineering (ASE) and host MRO Commercial Jet, announced completion...
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