The Portable Aeroacoustic Wind Tunnel is Ford’s latest engineering tool
Dr Steve Mackay5 May, 2016
At Flat Rock Assembly plant in Michigan in the United States, Ford is testing out their new, portable 'aeroacoustic wind tunnel'. They are going as far as to say that this portable wind tunnel is the first mobile version of its kind and are waiting on a patent for the...Read More
British construction experiences slow expansion due to impending EU referendum
Dr Steve Mackay5 May, 2016
Markit Economics and the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply has confirmed that Britain's construction sector is expanding at a slow rate. It hasn't expanded this slowly in three years the report said. According to IBTimes, it is the 36th month of expansion, however, it is the slowest construction output...Read More
A cloud-seeding man-made mountain could be making its way to the UAE
Dr Steve Mackay5 May, 2016
The United Arab Emirates is planning to take civil engineering to a whole new level. The engineers of the country plan to build a man-made mountain to produce rainfall. The hope is that with a mountain range effect, they will be able to cloud-seed the area. Cloud-seeding refers to weather...Read More
IBM will make its quantum computer accessible to the public
Dr Steve Mackay5 May, 2016
IBM is allowing the public to access its quantum processor from the cloud. Through applying on their website, anyone could get rights to test out the only known quantum computer known to be in operation in the world. NASA, Google, and Microsoft are all reportedly looking into how they could...Read More
Engineers re-engineer the boiling of water
Dr Steve Mackay5 May, 2016
Researchers at Oregon State University in the United States have discovered a new method of boiling water that utilizes new technology. They have published their findings in the Scientific Reports journal under the title Large-scale Generation of Patterned Bubble Arrays on Printed Bi-functional Boiling Surfaces. The researchers investigated bubble nucleation control to...Read More
Engineers re-engineer the boiling of water
Dr Steve Mackay5 May, 2016
Researchers at Oregon State University in the United States have discovered a new method of boiling water that utilizes new technology. They have published their findings in the Scientific Reports journal under the title Large-scale Generation of Patterned Bubble Arrays on Printed Bi-functional Boiling Surfaces. The researchers investigated bubble nucleation control to...Read More
Can engineers introduce roundabouts to the United States?
Dr Steve Mackay5 May, 2016
Geospatial engineering is a recent addition to the list of engineering roles you could find yourself in if you have an affinity for circumnavigating the world of civil engineering. These engineers are currently trying to imagine the introduction of European-styled roundabouts for the United States of America. the engineers would...Read More
Civil construction industry will get robot makeover by 2020
Dr Steve Mackay4 May, 2016
Skycatch is a drone data software company in the United States who's tagline is: Connecting people and machines to the real-time physical world. It is a tagline that indicates what the future of construction could look like. Machines doing what the people would be doing in real-time. The company recently received...Read More
U.S. Navy unveils self-driving ship
Dr Steve Mackay4 May, 2016
Self-driving cars and self-flying drones are always in the news, however, have you ever heard of self-driving ships?. The Titanic would have been a different story if somehow the self-driving technology the ship had could have spotted and avoided the iceberg. Oh, the possibilities. Just imagine getting on a cruise...Read More
Jaws: The sea-urchin inspired tool that could assist Mars missions and civil engineering
Dr Steve Mackay4 May, 2016
A team of engineers at the University of California, San Diego have taken inspiration from nature for a new model that could be manufactured at a larger scale for usage in multiple engineering industries from civil engineering, but their focus right now is on aerospace engineering. The object is modeled...Read More