Big Player in a Small World

Zyvex focuses on the semiconductor industry in its quest to revolutionize manufacturing through nanotechnology By James Gaskin Analyzing semiconductors is one of the first practical applications of nanotechnology. Big money lurks in small measurements and big...

Nature Does it Best

At Georgia Tech’s Center for Biologically Inspired Design, engineers work with biologists to decipher the secrets of design from nature.By Karen Pickett-WoodlandAs director, biology professor Jeannette Yen heads the center.All organisms must solve particular problems...

New Life at an Old Airport

At the Stapleton Airport brownfield development site in Colorado, a creek once relegated to culverts now serves as a centerpiece for sustainable communities.By Carol CarderWhere runways once stretched, livable communities now surround Westerly Creek.Credit Matrix...

Let the Circuits Roll

Flexible circuits fabricated by a roll-to-roll process that mimics newspaper printing may someday become ubiquitous in everyday electronic devices thanks to the Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing at Binghamton UniversityBy Tom GibsonHoused in a former...

Meeting an Important Need

In San Diego, the C5 center employs many innovations in helping service members severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan recover and readjust.By Tom ImeritoNAVFAC Southwest engineers such as Steve Wirsching directed the project.Along the harbor in San Diego,...