Real World Engineering

Langan Engineering & Environmental Services Earns SITEOPS(R) Provider Certification (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

patricia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:24:40 +0000

Langan Engineering & Environmental Services Earns SITEOPS(R) Provider Certification (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
BLUERIDGE Analytics , provider of patented land development software that delivers cost-optimized preliminary site designs and estimates, today announced that Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, a top 100 U.S. engineering and environmental design firm, joins the elite list of SITEOPS Certified Providers.

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-01-06 20:39 German engineering group maintains outlook - paper (Interactive Investor)

patricia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:24:39 +0000

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-01-06 20:39 German engineering group maintains outlook - paper (Interactive Investor)
FRANKFURT, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Germany’s VDMA association of machinery and equipment makers is sticking to its estimate that its members will roughly match last year’s production volume in 2009, the group’s managing director Hannes Hesse told daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Tuesday. The association, which represents companies that make machines and equipment for industrial refining, …

Engineering work set to begin on Iron Mountain Bat Cave Trail (The Iron Mountain Daily News)

patricia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:24:38 +0000

Engineering work set to begin on Iron Mountain Bat Cave Trail (The Iron Mountain Daily News)
IRON MOUNTAIN - City council approval was given at Monday’s meeting to incur engineering costs associated with the Bat Cave Trail project. The city has learned that the project was being funded by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund Program. The grant totals $158,400 and the total project is $230,000 including in-kind work by the city and private contributions. Acting City Ma

Engineering firm sues Magnolia Green developers (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

patricia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:42:10 +0000

Engineering firm sues Magnolia Green developers (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Timmons Group Inc., a Richmond-based engineering firm, is suing the developers of Chesterfield County s Magnolia Green development for about $1 million claiming unpaid services and attorney fees. A lawsuit filed by Timmons in Chesterfield Circuit Court on Dec. 12 claims Magnolia Green Development LLC has refused to pay $789,057 for services rendered since 2006 and $190,687 in attorney fees. …

MU Facing Shortage of Women in Engineering (KSHB-TV Kansas City)

patricia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:42:09 +0000

MU Facing Shortage of Women in Engineering (KSHB-TV Kansas City)
The University of Missouri is trying to figure out how to make some of their majors more catered to women.

Developer of advanced computing memory, father of biochemical engineering, and innovative engineering educators win … (EurekAlert!)

patricia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:42:08 +0000

Developer of advanced computing memory, father of biochemical engineering, and innovative engineering educators win … (EurekAlert!)
( National Academy of Sciences ) The engineering profession’s highest honors for 2009, presented by the National Academy of Engineering, recognize three achievements that helped the expansion of computing power; led to the widespread production of antibiotics; and developed unique entrepreneurial-themed curricula for engineers.

Amateurs try genetic engineering (The Augusta Chronicle)

patricia — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:48:16 +0000

Amateurs try genetic engineering (The Augusta Chronicle)
SAN FRANCISCO — The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life.

British Nuclear Fuels’ stake in AWE Management sold to Jacobs Engineering (Guardian Unlimited)

patricia — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:48:15 +0000

British Nuclear Fuels’ stake in AWE Management sold to Jacobs Engineering (Guardian Unlimited)
British control of the plant where the UK’s nuclear warheads are produced has been relinquished, with the sale of a third stake in the Aldermaston facility to an American company. Opposition politicians voiced concern that the manufacture of warheads for the Trident weapons system and its planned replacement would now be out of British hands after California-based Jacobs Engineering …

EAC engineering students win RoboGolf (Eastern Arizona Courier)

patricia — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:48:15 +0000

EAC engineering students win RoboGolf (Eastern Arizona Courier)
Eastern Arizona College s Introduction to Engineering course, taught by Dr. Jack Bailey, offers students an opportunity to learn about the engineering profession and apply the engineering design process to various projects.

NTU undergrad is first Singapore champion of an internationally acclaimed engineering competition (EurekAlert!)

patricia — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:04:08 +0000

NTU undergrad is first Singapore champion of an internationally acclaimed engineering competition (EurekAlert!)
( Nanyang Technological University ) Nanyang Technological University undergraduate Liu Shiyu has the honor of becoming the first student from Singapore to win the top prize in a global competition that pitted engineering students and young professionals from around the world.In the competition organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK, the fourth-year mechanical engineering …