Awaruite Advantage: How a Rediscovered Mineral Could Bypass the Nickel Smelter Bottleneck and Reshape North American Supply Chains
For engineers and designers specifying materials for the next generation of EVs, defense systems, and grid-scale batteries, the critical minerals supply chain has long been a black box. You know […]
Engineering the Giant: Inside the Grid Connection of the World’s Largest Solar-Plus-Storage Project
GAPAN, Nueva Ecija – On February 12, 2026, a significant electrical event took place here that had little to do with the Philippines’ famous summer heat and everything to do […]
Diving Deep: Underwater 3D Concrete Printing Set to Reshape Offshore Wind and Defense Construction
Australian researchers and industry partners have pioneered an accelerator-free method to 3D print concrete structures directly in marine environments, opening new frontiers for subsea infrastructure. The world of additive manufacturing […]
The Quiet Propeller Revolution: How Engineers Are Learning to Silence Ships to Save Marine Life
From cavitation tunnels to dimpled blade tips, breakthrough research aims to quiet the world’s fleet without sacrificing speed or efficiency — to help save marine life. Context: The Ocean’s […]
Engineered Geopolymers Redefining Well Integrity in a Low-Carbon Era
Advanced Materials Science Meets Subsurface Engineering As the oil and gas industry faces immense pressure to reduce its carbon footprint, a quiet revolution is happening at the most fundamental level: […]
The Ultimate Design-for-Assembly Challenge: Engineering NASA’s OSAM-1 In-Orbit Factory
Launching the Workshop, Not Just the Science While many missions launch science instruments, NASA’s On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission, now in advanced integration, is launching the workshop […]
Engineering the Impossible: CHIEF Hypergravity Facility Compresses Space and Time
Engineering the Time-Compression Engine: Inside CHIEF, the Record-Shattering Hypergravity Facility and its Transformative Potential for Design Innovation (Video inset) The Gravity-Defying Engineering Milestone On September 29, 2025, a giant centrifuge […]
Taming the Sun: Magnet Design Unlocks Practical Fusion Energy
New demonstrations from private fusion companies show that artificial intelligence is now an essential engineering tool for designing and controlling the superconducting magnets that make net-energy fusion possible. The path […]
Manufacturing: The Self-Optimizing Plant: Generative Process Twins Redefine Digital Manufacturing
New platforms are moving beyond static digital twins to dynamic, “Generative Process Twins” that autonomously redesign factory layouts and workflows for each new product, making mass customization economically viable. The […]
Automotive: Solid-State Battery Integration Reaches Production Scalability
As sulfide electrolyte production scales, design engineers are tackling the systems-level hurdles of thermal management, structural architecture, and manufacturing for the next generation of electric vehicles. The solid-state battery (SSB) […]
Breaking the Mold: Certification of Additively Manufactured CMCs Redefines Design for Extreme Environments
GE Aerospace’s FAA-approved 3D-printed turbine shroud signals a new era in high-temperature component design, moving beyond the limits of casting and lay-up. Certification of FAA Additively Manufactured In a landmark […]
Medical Design Engineering: The Disappearing Act: Engineering Patient-Specific, Bio-Resorbable Electronic Scaffolds
A landmark study in primates demonstrated a new paradigm for implantable devices: smart, wireless scaffolds that monitor and promote healing, then safely dissolve, eliminating secondary surgery and long-term foreign body […]
