Engineering

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale, experiences the most emotional suffering from the weight of guilt placed upon him as the father of an illegitimate child. His lover, Hester…

To find the coefficients of friction in a given system, an experiment needs to be performed. Finding the coefficient of static friction is the natural first step. Once this coefficient…

Genetic engineering has struck a major controversy concerning issues in heath care, engineering of food and other biological agents, and cloning. Genetic engineering is the process of manipulating the genetic…

Automotive History Why is it called an automobile? Or now a car? Why isn’t it called anything else? Oliver Evens applied for a U.S. patent in Philadelphia in 1792 on…

INTRODUCTION Virtual memory refers to an imaginary set of locations, or addresses, where you can store data. It is imaginary in the sense that the memory area is not the…

Over the past four or five decades, and especially in recent years, there has been a lot of talk among the scientific community and in everyday life about the development…

Imagine filling your tank with a garden hose, driving 5000 kilometers, and then stopping for a drink out of your tailpipe! This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future. But how…

Every day, across the world, thousands of planes take off from airports and travel great distances in short amounts of time, saving time and money for many people and businesses….

AIRBAGS By Nathaniel Devine This paper is discussing the topic of airbags. Now everyone is saying that “oooohh, airbags are LIFESAVERS,” and others reactions are “airbags are terrible and they’re…

History of the AA5 (All American 5ive) AM tube radio Possibly the longest lived consumer electronic product design was the five tube “AC/DC” AM radio. Virtually every household had at…

The old 45MHz FM broadcast band In 1945 the FCC decided that FM would have to move from the established 42 – 49 megahertz pre-war band to a new band…

Propagation as defined by Webster Dictionary as “the phenomenon of radio frequency energy traveling through the earth’s atmosphere, as well as through the empty space above the atmosphere”. Once radio-frequency…

Aluminum usage in automobiles and light trucks has been climbing steadily. Evenmore important, auto manufacturers are beginning to see aluminum the wayaircraft manufacturers do – as the basic structural material…

Why do I want to be a civil engineer? Until recently, I did not know the answerto this question myself. I was lost when choosing a career. Then, I read…

After several months of planning and design, excavation for the new ACES libraryon the University of Illinois campus began in May 1999. The project is sponsoredand will be owned by…

today’s business world, information about the customer is a necessity for abusinesses trying to maximize its profits. A new, and important, tool in gainingthis knowledge is Data Mining. Data Mining…

Earth in the Balance, Vice President Al Gore said “the rescue of theenvironment the central organizing principle for civilization.” In the past150 years, earth’s resources have been abused and people…

The group of synthetic resins called epoxies produce the strongest adhesives incurrent use, as well as plastics and corrosion-resistant coatings. Epoxyadhesives are thermosetting; that is, after initial hardening, they cannot…

Geographical Information System originated in the 1960s. During the early daysof the technology the use was limited to a small group of practicioners. It is ainformation technology which analizes, stores,…

Dealing with the natural resources of our environment, both in managementcapacities for present needs and safety and in planning for the future availableresources, is the responsibility of water resource engineers….