September 2003 Mechanical Engineering Departments Table of Contents

September
2003

from the editor
Still Vulnerable

letters

For Gender Neutrality

Alternative Movement

Room for the Wind

Big Wheel Power

Gender Benders

Hydrogen How?

Carbon on the Half Shell

news and notes

Pumping Up the Panama Canal

Nanochips That May Make Themselves

Think Snow

Briefly Noted

computing

Inspecting by Comparing After to Before

Simulating Diesel Fuel

A Global Search Won't Be the Same

Analyzing a Cable-Suspended Train

Heavy Equipment Maker Turns to 3-D Design

Armstrong's Bike Designed in Record Time

No Room at the Top For This Elevator

Computational Fluid Medicine

Briefly Noted

technology focus, part 1

Quiet, Please

Germ-Free Rubber

Quicker on the Draw

technology focus, part 2
High-Strength Prototypes
Money Eaten Away
Lights! Camera! Action!

input/output
Distance Learning on the Fly

washington window
An Appropriations Preview