Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

24 Sep 23

This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

When Tushar Sharma was a young boy growing up in Jamnapaar, India, a densely populated area outside of Delhi, he never imagined that someday he would meet the country’s prime minister. That memorable event occurred in May, when Sharma and a delegation from his employer, Renesas Electronics, met with Narendra…

23 Sep 23

Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. Inside the tank, a technician in a yellow dinghy adjusts equipment so that the triangled structure can be hoisted into the water to see how it deals with simulated waves and…

23 Sep 23

Connection Machine Joins All to All to Optimize Better

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Optimization problems—such as scheduling the hundreds of National Football League (NFL) games while attempting to abide by the league’s many, many rules—can take huge computing resources. Some such problems are impractical even for today’s supercomputers. Inspired by quantum phenomena and other physics-based ways of computing, researchers have been trying to…

22 Sep 23

The Endless Quest for the Perfect Computer Display

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Computer monitors have improved tremendously since the first mainstream color LCDs edged out CRT displays two decades ago. But odds are high the motion performance of the monitor you’re using right now is far from perfect.This is the reality of modern displays with a 60 hertz refresh rate, which refresh…

22 Sep 23

Video Friday: Robot Dance

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.IROS 2023: 1–5 October 2023, DETROITCLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS,…

22 Sep 23

Industrial Light & Magic Engineer Wins a Technical Oscar

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Winning an Academy Award is probably not something most engineers ever expect to do. But it was a fitting honor for Jim Vanns, who won a 2023 Technical Achievement Award—commonly referred to as a Technical Oscar—from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work on the high-performance…

22 Sep 23

Scotland signs ‘blueprint’ deal with onshore wind industry

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The Onshore Wind Sector Deal has been hailed as providing a “blueprint” for the rest of the UK. The goal of the agreement is to support the Scottish government in reaching its target of 20GW onshore wind by 2030, a figure more than double Scotland’s current operational capacity of 9.3GW.…

21 Sep 23

Get Up to Speed on AI, IoT, and Smart Grid

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The adoption of emerging technologies has drastically increased since 2020, according to a McKinsey & Co. survey. Understanding the latest technology trends can allow you to strengthen your competitive edge. Developing your technical skills and investing in yourself are great ways to advance from your current position and help you…

21 Sep 23

A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight.Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. If the humidity levels are high enough, a system can…

21 Sep 23

Electronics Cooling Simulation with CST Studio Suite®: From Consumer Devices to Datacenter Racks

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Thermal management has always been a challenge for modern electronics, especially with ever increasing demands for more powerful, yet smaller devices. A 'cool' electronics device requires careful thermal considerations and powerful simulation tools make the design process efficient. This webinar will highlight SIMULIA electronics cooling solutions in CST Studio Suite…

This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

Connection Machine Joins All to All to Optimize Better

The Endless Quest for the Perfect Computer Display

Video Friday: Robot Dance

Industrial Light & Magic Engineer Wins a Technical Oscar

Scotland signs ‘blueprint’ deal with onshore wind industry

Get Up to Speed on AI, IoT, and Smart Grid

A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

Electronics Cooling Simulation with CST Studio Suite®: From Consumer Devices to Datacenter Racks

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law