Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 16, 2018
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 ).
Cars That Think
JULY 2, 2023
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.
Cars That Think
JUNE 18, 2024
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.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 20, 2021
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.”
Cars That Think
JUNE 11, 2022
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.
Cars That Think
MARCH 25, 2024
Starting a new engineering program at a university is no simple task. By 2026, the university will offer an undergraduate engineering degree —but without creating an engineering department. IEEE Spectrum spoke with Seth Fraden, one of the new program’s interim cochairs, about getting a new engineering program up and running.
Cars That Think
MARCH 17, 2022
In college—the Costa Rica Institute of Technology —I signed up for what at the time was the hardest engineering degree in my country to get into— mechatronics. I was one of the first two women in Costa Rica to hold this engineering degree.” I helped close several ‘tape-outs’—bringing a chip from design through to manufacturing.
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