Optimec has sponsored this post. Battery energy storage systems, or BESS, are making waves in the green energy industry. A common complaint about renewable energy is that it’s highly weather dependent ...

SDVs present many novel opportunities and obstacles for the auto industry, but not all of them are engineering problems. Change is difficult, whether at an individual or institutional level. Your ...

The IET Faraday Challenge gives young people the opportunity to step into the role of an engineer, working in teams to ...

There is a vast array of design challenges and competitions for both engineering students and professionals. All of these contests are meant to recognize and reward engineering innovations to solve ...

Rising ninth and 10th-graders experienced a free weeklong, immmersive engineering camp at the University of Cincinnati as part of GE's Next Engineers program. Students completed hands-on engineering ...

The students participated in the Engineering Design Challenge, in which they were tasked with creating “Rube Goldberg” styled machines. A Rube Goldberg machine, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is ...

Forget video games. Forget sports. Ditto for movies. Instead, two middle school students have been spending their time tackling some of the same challenges NASA engineers face when designing ...

Early decisions made during front-end engineering design can shape an FPSO’s performance for decades. Swagelok’s Brian Rudary examines how fluid system design, material selection and standardization ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

Artificial intelligence is ultimately less an automation challenge than a knowledge management challenge, particularly in engineering project delivery.