3/00 Features Table of Contents

March 2000

feature articles

the many flavors of open
International standards, online services, and quality controls try to fix your vanilla design file when it translates as raspberry.

skyscrapers in a microworld
Developers are pushing processing boundaries to give new dimensions to the world of MEMS.

online design
Increasingly, the teamwork and the tools of engineering are moving to the Internet.

life force
Bioengineering gets a burst of energy when the Century of Physics meets the Century of Biology.

space farming
A biomass production system sends botanical research out of this world.

and I alone survived
After years of bearing witness to air crashes, the black box is becoming smaller, smarter, and more useful as a safety tool.

titanic proportions
Looking at its options, a company decides to build a massive chemical pressure vessel out of solid titanium.