Jacobs Engineering to build new S.F. hospital

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. said Tuesday it has received a contract for management services for construction of a San Francisco hospital better able to withstand California's earthquakes.

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Engineers Learning People Skills, Too

Hands wave in the air as students join a spirited discussion about start-up financing and laughter ripples through the class when someone IDs the three "Fs" of independent funding: Friends, family, fools.

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'Ionic wind engines' keep computers cool

The microchips inside future computers could be chilled by tiny "ionic wind engines" that use an electric current to generate a cooling breeze.

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Triangular strut system 'shrinks' in the heat

By picking your materials carefully you can build a structure that shrinks when heated (Image: Royal Society/Joseph Grima)

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Invention: Razor light

A device that uses light to send hair follicles to sleep, making skin smooth for weeks at a time, without shaving or waxing, is being patented by Philips.

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Steadier lasers could make best atomic clock yet

A clock that loses just one second every 60 million years might seem tough to beat. Nevertheless, conventional atomic clocks, which use caesium ions, could soon be replaced by those featuring arrays of strontium atoms as the gold standard for time keeping.

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Ultrasound stethoscope ignores noisy environments

A stethoscope that uses ultrasound to detect the movement of the heart or lungs can be used in noisy environments (Image: Adrianus Houtsma)

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Invention: Tooth decay probe

Tooth decay often goes undetected until too late. Early signs of damage are usually hidden from sight and it is unhealthy to take too many X-rays.

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A team of British engineers have fired up the rocket that they hope will propel their car to speeds in excess of 1,000mph, smashing the land speed record.

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The Oregon National Guard will hold a mobilization ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday for the 162nd Engineer Company at Dallas High School.

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America's bridges are falling down. Victor Li says he knows a better way to build them. The civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Michigan has invented a new kind of concrete that hardly ever cracks and, if it does, can repair itself.

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By Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.

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Engineers say a forest of 100,000 "artificial trees" could be deployed within 10 to 20 years to help soak up the world's carbon emissions.

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As we move forward in our increasingly mass produced and technological world, there is a certain nostalgia for what many critics say we've lost. We just need to find new ways to personalize and humanize the products we create.

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HR: Rules and Conduct for new job seekers

I found it interesting that article on "For class of 2009, a degree doesn't mean a job" have some people made comment on their recent experience with potential job seekers:

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It's a dark - if little known - side of a profession that more often evokes images of smiling engineers waving to children along the tracks.

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Building has been halted on new Pan-African Parliament in South Africa after officials realised the site was a wetland area which needed preserving

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A new study upends a popular belief that women drop out of engineering programs at a higher rate than male students.

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A student has designed a bike which can be folded completely into the space of the wheel's 26in circumference.

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The future prospect of using laser for beam energy propulsion is shown to be a possibility. The engineer, Leik Myrabo, talks about the ability of this to change space travel.

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Apollo 40 years later: A Reminder of The Power of Imagination

As we celebrate the landing of the first man on the moon we are reminded of the power of imagination in action. 40 years ago on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and declared "one step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

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Bruce Jacob, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland, had a musical problem. His new electric guitar just wouldn't give him all the sounds he wanted.

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Clark School engineering professor Bruce Jacob decided to create a better guitar, attacking an elusive aesthetic problem with a series of math equations, a circuit board and wiring.

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WHAT is it about "flying cars" that makes otherwise sensible engineers lose touch with reality? Ever since Glenn Curtiss, a seaplane pioneer, racing legend and the Wright brothers' rival, tried to make a flying car early in the last century, tinkerers have dreamed of having …

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But step out through a hatch onto the roof of the Vancouver Public Library at Library Square—nine stories above downtown—and you'll find yourself in a prairie, not an asphalt wasteland.

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Besides the odd pang of guilt, few of us think about what goes into those berries. How do they grow them so big? How do they get across a continent unblemished? How do they grow in November? We went to California to find out.

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In this video, surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demonstrates some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating -- and very graphic.

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Many recent college graduates have found it difficult to find a job, but there is at least one field that is looking for new hires.

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As nouns go, "flop" is a good one—short, peppy, and to the point.

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"At the height of its power, Mali had at least 400 cities, and the interior of the Niger Delta was very densely populated. One of the cities, Timbuktu rose from obscurity to great commercial and cultural importance.

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The Root of the Problem

In looking for a reason for our current economic issues it appears that most people think the problem is just a few years old. They find a point that backs their cause and stop looking.

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An article on msnbc on engineering a cooler planet discuss ways to remove co2 from the atmosphere.In the geritol effect the article describes using iron dust dumped in the oceans to create algae bloom to absorb co2 at the rate of 100,000 tons of co2 to 1 ton of iron powder seede …

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Israel is full of would-be Dov Morans. It is home to 4,000 high-tech companies, more than 100 venture-capital funds and a growing health-care industry.

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