Civil engineers develop crash prediction models for rural highways


15 April, 2016
A civil engineer out of Kansas State University has partnered with the Kansas Department of Transportation to generate a crash prediction model for "rural multi-lane highways".  Syeda Rubaiyat Aziz is working towards her doctorate in civil engineering and says, "Saving even a single life would be important for Kansas, as...Read More

Is Ultra HD revolutionizing the CCTV industry?


15 April, 2016
Tomsk Polytechnic University has put their computer engineers to work to create an algorithm for surveillance cameras that will detect a face in a crowd of people in high resolution. Allegedly, the algorithm would be able to calculate the number of people in the frame, the gender and age of the...Read More

Drone parcel delivery and change of drone laws in Australia


15 April, 2016
Australia Post is following in the footsteps of Amazon with intentions to launch a drone delivery system. The post office tested out a drone delivery in a 'closed-field' trial to test the possibility of implementing drone delivery in the future. A prototype drone built with four rotors, what ABC is...Read More

Drone parcel delivery and change of drone laws in Australia


15 April, 2016
Australia Post is following in the footsteps of Amazon with intentions to launch a drone delivery system. The post office tested out a drone delivery in a 'closed-field' trial to test the possibility of implementing drone delivery in the future. A prototype drone built with four rotors, what ABC is...Read More

Blood tests without the needle made possible by engineering students


15 April, 2016
Engineering students from Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology in Aligarh, India claim to have an answer to doing blood tests without the needle prick that some people fear. This was achieved reportedly using electrical properties of blood cells that to successfully count red blood cells (RBC) and white...Read More

A lake-exploring robot needs crowdfunding to study and understand Yellowstone Lake


14 April, 2016
The Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration has taken to Kickstarter to try and crowdfund a project that would see a team of engineers building an underwater robot to explore Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone Lake is the largest freshwater lake above 7,000ft in North America.  The leader of the team Dave Lovalvo,...Read More

3D Microwave video camera could revolutionize security screening


14 April, 2016
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology have invented a 3-D microwave video camera. The team says the camera would be able to conduct industrial inspection and security screening. The camera operates at 20-30 gigahertz and uses non-ionizing electromagnetic waves which are not harmful to humans.  Talking to...Read More

Lithium vs Vanadium: Energy storage wars


14 April, 2016
A company from the United Kingdom named Renewable Energy Systems (RES) has published what they say are five lessons they have learned since investing a lot of their time and money into energy storage involving lithium-ion batteries. The company has experience with solar and wind technologies but in 2014 started...Read More

The latest hikes in engineering salaries


14 April, 2016
Engineering salaries are on the rise according to industry players publishing new reports. The Economic Research Institute released a list of jobs in engineering that seemed to have gotten pay raises from 2014-2015.  The results of the national salary increase: Electronics and computer engineers - salary raise of 8.31% Mechanical engineers...Read More

Russia hosts Robofest 2016


14 April, 2016
The future of robotics is in the hands of the engineers currently working in automation and the children who are interested in pursuing a career in robotics. Moscow hosted Robofest 2016, which saw a host of young, budding, engineers show off their robots. From shirt folding robots to rough-terrain navigating...Read More