R & D articles from September 2006

R & D archives from September 2006

U.S. engineering at crossroads.
September 1, 2006... A recent online survey by Newsweek reveals that the U.S. will place third, behind India and China, in terms of who would have the "best engineers" in 10 years. That statistic is of course independent of which countries will have the "most...

Welcome to Janelia Farm.(Janelia Farm Research Campus)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... After six years of planning, design, and construction, the doors of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Janelia Farm Research Campus finally opened in early September. Located in Ashburn, Va., the new 71,000 [m.sup.2] facility will...

Pittcon award winners revealed.(Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Organizers of the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy have announced the recipients of their annual awards. This program recognizes distinguished scientists from academia and industry for their contributions...

NSF doles out $75 million for engineering efforts.(National Science Foundation )
September 1, 2006... The National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, Va., has recently appropriated $75.3 million for the creation of five new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs). The ERC program, established nearly two decades ago, aims at bringing together...

Knock, knock ... it's ultrasound.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Ultrasound energy is most commonly used in medical imaging routines. But a research team at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory Univ., both of Atlanta, Ga., has shown that its uses could potentially include drug delivery schemes. ...

Following the drug path.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Researchers at Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, Ind., have offered new insight into how drugs are released within a cancer cell. "Most new drugs under development will be targeted directly to the pathologic, disease-causing cells, and we have...

NASA heads to underwater lab.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... NASA will send four astronauts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Aquarius underwater laboratory in mid-September. During this seven-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 11 mission,...

BMW goes green.(new car to be launched)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... In mid-September, BMW announced that it will produce a total of 100 of its BMW Hydrogen 7 series for select users in the U.S. and other countries beginning in the first half of 2007. The car will be powered by a 260-horsepower 12-cylinder...

India to build Astra missile.(Defense Development Organization )
September 1, 2006... India's Defense Development Organization (DRDO) has announced that it is developing its own "beyond visual range" (BVR) air-to-air missile for use on its fighter aircraft. These missiles are designed to be fired by fighter jets to destroy enemy...

China and Malaysia to develop biofuels.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Malaysia recently signed a bilateral research and development cooperation deal with China to jointly develop biofuel and biomass production technologies. The deal was made between Malaysia's Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and the Dept. of High-Tech...

AMD opens 2nd China R&D center.(Advanced Micro Devices )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Sunnyvale, Calif., has officially opened its Shanghai R&D Center, a $16 million facility targeted at the development, validation, and testing of mobile platforms. AMD also has an R&D facility in Beijing and a $50...

Lilly CEO argues for Japan trade deal.(Eli Lilly and Co., Sidney Taurel )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Ind., CEO and Chairman Sidney Taurel recently made the case for a Japan-U.S. Economic Integration Agreement in a speech before the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. Taurel argued that Japan-U.S....

The birth of SIAT.(Chinese Academy of Sciences and Government of Shenzhen to establish an Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Government of Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong Province have reached an agreement to jointly establish a CAS Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT). SIAT will focus on information...

World-class technologies for R&D and beyond: the 44th Annual R&D 100 Awards honor the world's best innovators and their innovations.(The 44th Annual Awards)(Cover story)
September 1, 2006... The editors of R&D Magazine are proud to announce the winners of the 44th Annual R&D 100 Awards. This annual competition recognizes excellence in innovation--on a global scale. Indeed, the technologies and techniques highlighted in the...

Building better DAQ tools.(Ethernet; data acquisition)
September 1, 2006... Al Vrancic went to work for National Instruments (NI) in Austin, Texas, after he received his doctorate, working in NI's data acquisition group. His first projects in this group involved high-speed streaming to disk, kernel infrastructure...

Composite optics advance stellar imaging: composite materials are making it possible to add capabilities to astronomical observatories without massive changes to the existing infrastructure.
September 1, 2006... Since before Galileo trained his primitive telescope upon Jupiter and its moons, astronomical discoveries have been linked to advancing technology. Improvements in methods, materials, and design have complemented each other to create...

An eye on vacuum science.
September 1, 2006... The American Vacuum Society's (AVS), N.Y., N.Y., 53rd annual International Exhibition & Symposium will he held on Nov.12-16, in San Francisco's Moscone West Convention Center. The 2006 Technical Program includes a number of special technical...

CEO's message: R&D International.
September 1, 2006... For more than a decade, Battelle and R&D Magazine have jointly analyzed trends in U.S. government and industrial research and development. Last year, we augmented that tradition with the first-ever Global R&D Report in which we examined similar...

Globalization alters traditional R&D: the international R&D community has more than new technologies to consider when evaluating how it structures itself, including how to interact with brand new high-tech players.(Statistical table)
September 1, 2006... The examination of the changing dedication to R&D on a global scale is an essential component in understanding the R&D structure and practices now occurring within the U.S. and other technologically developed countries. Indeed, it has become...