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Stellar Technology introduces Series LSU61X short stroke LVDT

March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

LSU61X is suited for applications where dynamic measurement is needed but space is limited. Price: $390. Read More  Read More →

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Heavy duty road trip

March 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Who’s up for a road trip? We’re going to take one. A heavy-duty road trip. Today, on Engineering Works! Just about everybody’s taken a road trip at some point in their lives. Vacation. Visiting relatives in another state. Finding yourself. This trip was more ambitious than any of those. First, when we say heavy-duty, we’re not kidding. This road trip moved a 900,000 pound electric generator from the Port of Houston to a power plant under construction near a small town in central Texas. About 250 miles away. The generator itself was about 20 feet high and almost 40 feet long. That’s pretty... [Read the full story]

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Mini Canbus datalogger has USB port for communicating with a PC

March 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

New from Sensor-Technik is the C2U-Mini datalogger that records data from Canbus systems and connects to a PC via a USB link for data storage and analysis Read More  Read More →

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Software Maintenance is a Solution, Not a Problem (An Excerpt from Software Conflict 2.0) By Robert L. Glass

January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

The traditional, problem-oriented view of maintenance says that our chief goal in maintenance should be to reduce costs. I think that’s the wrong emphasis. If maintenance is a solution instead of a problem, we can quickly see that what we really want to do is more of it, not less of it. And the emphasis, when we do it, should be on maximizing effectiveness, and not on minimizing cost. An excerpt from Software Conflict 2.0.Click here for the full article. Read More  Read More →

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Light Friday: Unhappy Workers and their Bosses

March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Plus: Useless Inventions, iPhone Addiction, Symphony of Science and MORE. Read More  Read More →

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Project Engineering Jobs

Engineering is one of the well-respected professions in our world today. This kind of job is being considered as the most creative and significant work in any industry, since they are the ones responsible in making new innovations in the different places in the world. Engineering comes in the different specialization,...

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How to Become a Network Engineer

Learning how to become a network engineer is in itself no easy task. The scope of topics ranges from learning where each appropriate plug goes into to mastering the use of Linux, Solaris and NetWare to optimise connections between servers and individual computers. The rewards, however, are quite lucrative indeed, especially...

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What You Need to Know About a Career As a Network Engineer

Network engineering is a process in which an independent contractor or company will determine the internetworking requirements for switched networks and then develop and implement the hardware or software in order to meet the needs of the system’s users. Network engineers are the spines of the computer infrastructure...

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