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GE Aviation completes initial design of supersonic engine for Aerion AS2

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GE Aviation has completed the initial design of the first supersonic engine purpose-built for business jets. This new engine class, revealed as GE’s Affinity turbofan, is optimized with proven GE technology for supersonic flight and timed to meet the Aerion AS2 launch ( earlier post ).

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. The Atlantic Monthly And yet, if you watched this year’s Oscar-winning Oppenheimer , Bush is only a minor character.

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Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers

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There is a fundamental difference between what can be designed and built and what makes sense. Of course, the most infamous overshoot of all airplane designs was Howard Hughes’s H-4 Hercules , dubbed the “ Spruce Goose ,” the largest plane ever made out of wood. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “Extreme Designs.”

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Industry-Leading Automotive Connectivity Solutions and Extensive Engineering Expertise

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by TE Connectivity. In the fast-moving automotive industry, consumer expectations are evolving just as quickly as the technologies and solutions that shape vehicle design. Using our customer-centric engineering expertise, we’ll help you tackle even your most complex design challenges.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." The motor control module contained a linear control IC, an NPN motor drive transistor, and a discrete PNP dynamic braking transistor, and gave the designers little trouble. To Polaroid the approach looked risky, but its engineers were excited by its possibilities.

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Altair and Metrics collaborate to redefine semiconductor design verification – ET Auto

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The collaborative solution from Altair and Metrics is poised to redefine the landscape of semiconductor design verification by leveraging cloud-based technologies and cost-efficient, scalable simulation tools. Altair has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Metrics Design Automation Inc. ,

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