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Engineering on Alltop.com

July 9, 2008

If you’ve never checked out alltop.com, then it’s about time. They’ve just launched a brand new engineering section with feeds from a bunch on engineering related sites from around the web.

If you know of other engineering news sites, send them a link to the RSS feed at info@alltop.com to get it added.

Thanks to alltop for putting Hire-Engineers.com at the top!

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Hire-Engineers.com 2.0 Coming Soon!

July 7, 2008

We’ve been working hard here at Hire-Engineers.com to bring you a shiny new version of the site and we are getting close to release! Not only will the site have a fresh new look, but also a ton of great new features including:

  • For Job Seekers:
    • Candidate Profiles - Upload your resume and tell us what your dream engineering job is!
    • Enhanced Job Search - An easier way to find jobs on Hire-Engineers.com and across the web
    • Job Applications - Apply for jobs directly through the website
  • For Employers
    • Candidate Profile & Resume search
    • An easy to use job posting interface and management dashboard
    • track job views and applications
    • Manage resumes for applicants
    • FREE job postings every month!

These are just some of the great features we will be introducing over time here on Hire-Engineers.com! Register your email with us to receive updates on the launch of version 2.0! For employers, there will be a limited number of 100% free accounts available to those who register with us ahead of launch.

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Written by bradley · Filed Under Candidate Feature, Employer Page Featured, Engineering News, Featured Article |  

Engineering protein-based smart materials for nanomechanical applications (Nanowerk Spotlight)

July 2, 2008

Elastomeric (i.e. elastic) proteins are able to withstand significant deformations without rupture before returning to their original state when the stress is removed. Consequently, these proteins confer excellent mechanical properties to many biological tissues and biomaterials.

Depending on the role performed by the tissue or biomaterial, elastomeric proteins can behave either as springs or shock absorbers. Recent scientific work in Canada resulted in the engineering of the first artificial chameleon elastomeric proteins that mimic and combine these two different behaviors into one protein.

Under the regulation of a molecular regulator, these designer proteins exhibit one of the two distinct mechanical behaviors – spring or shock absorber – which closely mimic the two extreme behaviors observed in naturally occurring elastomeric proteins.

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New Holland Wins Three AE50 Awards for Engineering Innovations

July 2, 2008

New Holland Agricultural Equipment has been honored with three prestigious AE50 Awards by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) for the most innovative product ideas to enter the market in 2007.

The AE50 Awards are based on new technology or the advancement of existing technology intended principally for producing, processing, storing, packaging or transporting agricultural, food and other biological products. To be nominated, a product must have the potential for broad impact on its area or industries. Only 50 products are chosen for the award each year.

The following New Holland products were presented with AE50 awards:

--  FR9000 Series self-propelled forage harvesters feature the widest crop
    flow channel in the industry, including the widest feedrolls and the
    largest cutterhead on the market, for superior streamlined crop flow and
    maximum capacity. The patented Variflow™ variable blower provides smooth,
    fast crop flow and big horsepower savings. Innovations include the
    PowerCruise™ engine load management system and a cab with unmatched 324
    degree all-around visibility.
--  BR7090 round balers enable formation of uniform, dense, perfectly
    shaped 5' x 6' round bales in any crop. New bale-forming rolls with
    integral formed ribs provide aggressive crop movement to start cores in
    crops and conditions that were previously too difficult to bale, like dry,
    slick Bermuda grass or short straw. This new design reduces the time
    between initial crop entering the bale chamber and the start of the core
    rotation by 25 percent.
--  The T9050 4WD tractor features a 485-hp turbo compounding engine that
    boosts power and fuel economy while reducing noise. Exhaust gases are
    "recycled" through a second power turbine to generate extra driving torque
    without increasing fuel consumption. The result is increased performance
    and horsepower, with better fuel economy.

New Holland, a division of CNH Global N.V. (NYSE: CNH), a majority owned subsidiary of Fiat S.p.A. (FIA: MI), is a world leader in agricultural, utility and construction equipment. New Holland sells and services an innovative and diverse line of equipment, including a full line of tractors as well as hay and forage equipment, harvesting, crop production and material handling equipment.

Sales, parts and service are provided to customers by New Holland dealers throughout the United States and Canada. There are more than 1,100 New Holland dealerships located throughout North America.

For more information on New Holland equipment, contact your local New Holland dealer or visit the New Holland Web site at www.newholland.com/na.

For more information, contact:
Gene H. Hemphill
Industry Affairs Manager
Phone: (717) 475-2152
Email Contact
www.newholland.com/na

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Berners-Lee named 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering

June 23, 2008

Internet pioneer Timothy Berners-Lee has been named the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering Dean Subra Suresh announced this week.

Berners-Lee is widely recognized with having created the World Wide Web. He proposed his concept for the Web in 1989 while at the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ), launched it on the Internet in 1991 and continued to refine its design through 1993. In 1994, the British native joined the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT to be director of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), an open, international forum that develops standards for the Web.

Suresh said that as a member of the faculty, Berners-Lee will focus his research efforts on the social and technical aspects of collaborative applications running on large-scale networks like the Web, and on the Semantic Web-an extension of the Web in which the semantics of information and services on the Web is captured. In addition to research activities in these areas and on other extensions to the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee also plans to develop, jointly with several other institutions around the world, new curricular material for Web Science, which will involve close interactions between computer science, the social sciences and technology application deployment.

Berners-Lee has received many honors for his work, including honorary degrees from Oxford, Columbia and eight other universities; being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering; being honored by the Queen, and holding the OBE ( Officer of the Order of the British Empire ), the KBE ( Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ) and the OM ( Order of Merit limited to the Queen and 24 other members, the highest civilian honor in Great Britain ); and winning the Japan Prize, the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize, the NAE’s Charles Stark Draper Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Whittle Medal.

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