by gossamer | Jun 4, 2019 | Feature
By Tom Gibson In the state of Hawaii, rooftop solar panels are popping up everywhere. On the island of Oahu, where most of the state’s population lives, roughly 12 percent of utility customers have rooftop solar, compared to an average of 0.5 percent in the...
by gossamer | Jun 4, 2019 | Feature
By Tom Gibson Nigel Clark, the George B. Berry Chair of Engineering at West Virginia University (WVU) has a birds-eye view of heavy-duty truck technology and sees the advances made in tractor-trailers. As an expert and researcher in the field, he sits on the Committee...
by gossamer | Jun 4, 2019 | Feature
A chemical spill in West Virginia highlights the role engineers play in disasters By Tom Gibson In early January of 2014, Andrew Whelton, then a civil and environmental professor at the University of South Alabama, gathered some students and headed to Charleston, West...
by gossamer | Jun 4, 2019 | Feature
Siemens 3D-prints a turbine blade By Tom Gibson As a form of additive manufacturing, the process of 3D printing has been used to build myriad plastic prototype parts to serve as a model to show a design’s fit and form. But never has a 3D-printed part been...
by gossamer | Jun 4, 2019 | Company Profile
Serves Up Advanced Computerized Mechanical Engineering By Andrea Dace “It started from sketches on notebook paper,” recalls Gavin Rumble, owner of Solid Engineering & Design, a mechanical engineering consulting firm in Lexington, North Carolina....
