June 2003

from the editor
Engines of Change

letters
Inappropriate Topics
Questions of Scale
From the Greenhouse
People Needed
Economics and the Facts of Life
Six Degrees Early
Hi-Yo Silver?

news and notes
Horn Honk
House Passes Nano R&D Bill, 405-19
Los Alamos Management To Open for Bids
U.S. Seeks to Avert Western Water Crisis
Now That's Progress
Car Plant Inhales Landfill Exhaust
Briefly Noted

computing
Burning Rubber to Get Wheels Made
Plant Design Software To Grow This Year
NIST Brings Quantum Computers Closer
Renault Formula One Team Uses CAD
Chrysler Goes With Fatigue Analysis
Seeing Oil Inside a Rock
Data Acquisition Links GM Test Stations
Reading CAD Files
Music Systems Maker Cuts Prototype Time
Briefly Noted

technology focus, part 1
Slugs in Line
Flagging Flappers
Oil-Field Mud Watch Without Wires

technology focus, part 2
Tire Check
Keeping Water Pure
Tracking Sticky Chemicals in Tests

input/output
Do Elephants Run?

washington window
A Second Go-Around for the Energy Bill

me bookshelf
A new listing of engineering publications for June

 


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