Engineering News

A new thermoelectric generator (TEG) has demonstrated how it can turn wasted energy into 200 watts of electricity that can be used in vehicles for added power. The device created by GMZ Energy is a module measuring one square inch, and a quarter-inch thick that uses a unique method to decrease heat leakage and provide an increase in performance.

The British government has announced that its Superfast Broadband project has reached a million homes and project that by 2017 95 percent of UK homes will have access to superfast broadband.

A 40-minute blackout of Vermont’s 911 system was caused by technical glitches and blocked 83 callers from reaching the dispatch center. The disruption of service occurred on Wednesday, August 6th from 12:15 pm to 12:55 pm.

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating potentially dangerous USB phone chargers after a women in Sydney died after being electrocuted from a defective USB phone charger.

Three engineers from the University of California Riverside have been awarded a 1.7 million grant by the National Science Foundation to study a new class of ultra-thin film materials, named van der Waals materials.

Apple has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a system that uses near-field magnetic resonance (NFMR) to wireless transmit and receive power to charge keyboards and mice.

University of Delaware researchers developed a method to produce high-performance, flexible optical devices using chalcogenide glass and polymers. This new method produced the lowest optical loss ever recorded, close to an order of magnitude below other flexible optical devices.