Engineering News

Federal Communications Commission Michael O’Rielly has made his first official appointment by hiring Courtney Reinhard as his Senior Legal Advisor and Chief of Staff.

RnRMarketResearch.com has released a research report on communications, test and measurement markets detailing forecasts for 2018, including year-over-year growth rates and challenges these markets are facing.

Professor Dame Anne Dowling has been nominated and selected as the first female President of the Royal Academy of Engineers. Following the formal election process, her five year term will start in September 2014.

Research and Markets has published an updated report that assesses the future projections, applications, challenges and major players of piezoelectric energy harvesters. The report provides forecasts for a variety of applications that utilize piezoelectric energy.

Induct, a robotics company, introduced the world’s first commercially available self-driving car at the 2014 International CES show. The Navia shuttle carries up to 8 passengers and uses onboard lasers and sensors to detect obstacles in its path.

Mathematicians and computer scientists have been challenged for decades by finding the most efficient way to move items across a network, but when the network has grown exponentially like the Internet, traditional methods prove problematic. A team at MIT has developed a new algorithm that reduces the time to solve these problems.

A new type of battery that could change the way electricity is stored on the grid is being developed by a team of Harvard scientists and engineers. The new battery technology will make renewable energy sources more economical and reliable than current technology.

Research and Markets has released their latest strategic outlook on the Automotive Ethernet Technology in Europe and North America. The study focuses on a strategic analysis and the comparison of European and North American OEM and supplier benchmarking.

A new Consumer Product Safety Regulation and Market Surveillance Regulations will be introduced in 2014 that will overhaul the current product safety and market surveillance administration. The new regulations are expected to be adopted in 2014.

IEEE has approved the IEEE 802.11acTM-20131 specification to achieve higher multi-user throughput in wireless local area networks (WLANs).  This new revision intends to improve WLAN user experience more than 10 times the speed compared to the previous version, with data rates up to 7 Gbps in the 5 GHz band.