Onward Bound: Machine shop veteran urges teens to choose careers over crime
In an odd way, Bill Malone can thank the recession for his career success and satisfaction. Not this recession, the other one – those horrendous economic times in the early 1970s under the Nixon and...
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P.J. Hicks used a torch all his life to make welding repairs. Now he fires up art. Having spent most of his professional life at sea traveling the world, retired chief engineer P.J. Hicks has no...
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Designing a rugged vehicle for the unpredictable environment of underground mines goes far beyond making sure the driver is protected from falling dirt and rocks. For starters, narrow tunnels deep...
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Technology has created a generation gap in terms of how we gamble. People who have grown up with texting and Smartphones prefer video slot machines, while gamblers over age 40 tend not to trust them....
View ArticleFrom Military Landing Gear to Low-Noise Bike Racks, Utah Engineers Search for...
Just as NASA research has been responsible for a plethora of products such as smoke detectors, flat panel TVs, fogless ski goggles and freeze-dried foods, aerospace engineering continues to surface in...
View ArticleSpotlight on Papua New Guinea: Engineer quenches thirst in jungle villages
Like everything else he packed for his South Pacific jungle island adventure, David Hall needed his 2D CAD tool to be light and portable. Hall is a civil engineer in the middle of a two-year assignment...
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