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The most sustainable building in the world has been crowned. Who decides these kinds of things, you ask? The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREAAM)  has said an office building in Haelen, in the Netherlands, has won the award and scored 99.94 percent on their rankings. Now you can change...Read More

Another day, another concern for autonomous cars. At the end of the day, the policy makers of the world are the ones who are going to be allowing autonomous cars to take to the streets globally, and the fight is heating up.  Dr. Ian Noy, a policy maker in the...Read More

It was just the other day we reported on SpaceX's mission to deliver inflatable rooms to the International Space Station. The mission held, even more, significance because of SpaceX's constant mission to land a spacecraft after it had launched it. The Falcon 9 - the rocket in question - took...Read More

Pyrotechnic engineering is an important job and also a risky one due to the health and safety measures that must be taken to ensure that pyrotechnics do not put humans at direct risk of being harmed. Mike Tockstein is a pyrotechnician with his M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He...Read More

Self-aware WiFi. You read that right. A WiFi system that instead of being searched for, does the searching and connecting to a WiFi enabled device.  That is the future of WiFi according to researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). They say that they have developed software called Chronos...Read More

Weather forecasts seem to be a hot topic amongst engineers these days. Everyone is trying to invent the next weather measurement tool that will change the game. Hey, people love knowing what the weather is going to be, what can we say? Scientists over at Oklahoma State University are working...Read More

The United Arab Emirates cannot put up with the number of graduates looking for jobs, but the one industry they cannot seem to place anyone in is the engineering industry. The construction industry was the first one named in the report by GulfNews. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) say that...Read More

Two companies are bringing construction and drone technology together. 3D Robotics (3DR) has announced that they will work in tandem with Autodesk's Forge Platform. This would lead to the drones using cloud services, developed apps and SDKs with the Forge Platform, opening up the world of construction. "Capturing site data today is costly,...Read More

The Airlander 10 is here. It looks like a mix between something the Thunderbirds would operate and the futuristic looking blimp from the Golden Compass movie. The airship was built by an automotive engineering firm called Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV).  The ship is 302-feet long. That is 60-feet longer than a...Read More

Being an engineer is sometimes one of the most rewarding jobs. Not only for the almost guaranteed employment in your field but also because you get to play with some of the coolest 'toys'.  National Engineers Week has come and gone but one of the highlights for engineering students at...Read More