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Industry News Today - Archives - August 2009

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Get your daily news fix featuring tech-savvy articles impacting the day-to-day lives of design engineers. Updated throughout the day, we bring you the latest related to motion control, additive manufacturing, electronic components, hydraulics, pneumatics, materials, fastening and more.   

Swimming With The Fishes   8/31/2009
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast.   Continue
Eaton & Hydraquip Demonstrate After-Sales Support   8/28/2009
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation has announced it and Hydraquip Distribution of Houston, TX, demonstrated commitment to after-sales customer support by hosting seminars on pump controls in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as well as at an Oklahoma City producer of oilfield service equipment that is a key Hydraquip customer.   Continue
20 Years Of Motion-Based Seating   8/28/2009
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation has announced that 2009 marks its 20th year working with SimEx-Iwerks Entertainment to entertain global audiences through motion-based seating powered by Eaton’s hydraulics components.   Continue
$300 M For Clean Cities Grants   8/27/2009
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the selection of 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.   Continue
The Brainstorm: Future Of Energy Harvesting   8/27/2009
In the Product Design & Development Brainstorm we talk with industry leaders to get their perspective on issues critical to the design engineering marketplace. In this issue, we ask: What is the future of energy harvesting? What markets will energy harvesting have the greatest impact upon?   Continue
Bayer Innovative Award To Simcro Director   8/27/2009
Simcro executive director, Rod Walker was awarded the 2009 Bayer Innovators Award for design and engineering at a ceremony in Auckland this week.   Continue
Prototype For Future Mars Mission   8/27/2009
MDA Alliance has delivered a prototype of a tether-reel mechanism for an instrumented borehole drill that may be used on NASA’s future mission to the icy northern plains region of Mars.   Continue
Fluke’s Cash for Clunkers   8/27/2009
Fluke Corporation, the global leader in handheld electronic test and measurement technology, has announced a Cash for Clunkers rebate program to encourage thermographers to trade their old infrared cameras on new Fluke instruments.   Continue
3D Product Catalogs: Critical For Business   8/27/2009
CAD-native 3D product catalogs are becoming a critical business component for manufacturers and necessary to get their products selected, designed in and purchased, with 80 percent of design engineers indicating that multiple units will be purchased for production once downloaded.   Continue
LEGOs Help Researchers Learn   8/26/2009
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to re-create microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more easily observe.   Continue

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Choose a Training Course on Turbomachinery Design for February-June 2010: Germany, USA or UK
Engineers involved in design and optimization of turbomachinery are invited to participate in interactive training courses organized by SoftInWay Inc. These courses address the challenges mechanical and aerospace engineers face while developing a turbomachinery flow path, and aim to improve  Continue

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My company, SoftInWay Inc., will host Intensive Training on Turbomachinery Design on February 8 12, 2010, in Dusseldorf, Germany. This 5 day course is aimed at providing mechanical and aerospace engineers with in depth insight into axial turbines and presenting  Continue

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