The Next Great Disruption: Three Emerging Technologies Poised to Transform the Automotive Industry
The Next Great Disruption: Three Emerging Technologies Poised to Transform the Automotive Industry
The Next Frontier: Three Emerging Technologies Set to Revolutionize Manufacturing, Medical Tech, and Oil & Gas by 2030
The Next Frontier: Three Emerging Technologies Set to Revolutionize Manufacturing, Medical Tech, and Oil & Gas by 2030
The State of the “Space Race” (from now-2030): Technologies, Missions, and the New Lunar Resource Race
The State of the “Space Race” (from now-2030): Technologies, Missions, and the New Lunar Resource Race
Long-Duration Space Exploration: Stoichiometric Model of a Fully Closed Bioregenerative Life support System and Autonomous Robotics
Long-Duration Space Exploration: Stoichiometric Model of a Fully Closed Bioregenerative Life support System and Autonomous Robotics
Biofuels Versus Food Supply Debate: Sustainable Transportation and a Greener Environment
Biofuels Versus Food Supply Debate: Sustainable Transportation and a Greener Environment

Engineering positions: what’s in demand, what does it pay, what do you need to qualify? Top seven engineering positions

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Electrical Engineering is one of the top choices of students considering careers — even though Petroleum Engineer tops the base salary list. [See below for informaiton on the top 7 […]

Clean freight: with over 10 per cent of emissions coming from “goods moving” the push is on for greener trucking

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Greenhouse gas emissions have been on the rise, and approximately ten per cent of Canada’s emissions stem from freight. Though there are plenty of ideas for reducing these emissions, critics […]

Electro Water Separation (EWS) or Electro Coagulation: Treatment system uses electricity to clean contaminated water

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Technology for cleaning contaminated water is increasingly being adopted by oil companies and well operators as a pay-by-the-gallon water-cleaning service.  OriginOil’s  electro water separation (EWS) technology, described as a high-speed, […]

Civil Engineering Design: What it Takes to Engineer the World’s Longest Tunnels

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The world’s longest underwater tunnel is the Channel Tunnel, running 50 km under salt water. It is also the second-longest railway tunnel in the world. Yet, this underwater triumph is […]

New oil extraction methods such as swept acoustic wave promise to increase yield

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Typically, companies only manage to extract a third of the oil from a given field using current technologies. A promising new extraction method, developed by veteran Russian engineer Alex Barak and […]

Hypersonic travel may become practical with new heat-resistant ceramic carbide material

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The missing “technology” in the dream of hypersonic air travel is a light-weight but heat-resistant material that can tolerate the superheating of travelling more than five times the speed of […]

Scientists Use Machine Learning to Automate Atomic-Scale Manufacturing

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​Scientists at the University of Alberta recently unveiled a method wherein they applied a machine learning technique to automate atomic-scale manufacturing for the first time. The green technology used in […]

Vitamin-derived battery created by U of T chemists

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The search for better batteries has taken another step forward with the work of chemists at the University of Toronto. Their breakthrough uses the principle of biomimicry to create a […]

NASA learns from the birds for the next generation in “Smart” dynamic wing design

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Imagine the next gen aircraft with wings that move like a birds. The dynamic wing design changes as it flies for optimal gliding. Instead of flaps and fixed wings, the […]

SpaceX Mars Exploration By 2019? Maybe not.

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The prospect of sending people to Mars has long fascinated us. Many problems have been presented, though, putting a damper on those dreams. It is a long and daunting process, […]

Deep Roads — researchers propose taking road expansion underground to reduce congestion and pollution

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According to a recent Statistics Canada report, our commute now takes 57% longer today, as compared to the previous report. Put another way, ten percent of our waking lives are […]

Once more to the moon — NASA may use a commercial rocket to speed up the EM-1 moon mission planned for June 2020

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NASA, who led the world to the moon landings with the famous Apollo missions, has an aggressive plan to continue the lunar exploration as soon as next year with their […]

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