Reporte #134
Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
We’ve all been there. You’re driving down the highway, just as Google Maps instructed, when Siri tells you to “Proceed east for one-half mile, then merge onto the highway.” But you’re already on the highway. After a moment of confusion and perhaps some rude words about Siri and her extended AI family, you realize the problem: Your GPS isn’t accurate enough for your navigation app to tell if you’re on the highway or on the road beside it.
Kerry Emanuel: This year’s hurricanes are a taste of the future
MIT News – Engineering
Climate scientist describes physics behind expected increase in storm strength due to climate change.
6 key steps to getting a graduate job in engineering
The Engineer
No one said finding your first job would be easy but if you follow this guide you’ll be well placed to go after that engineering role of your dreams.
Projects make inroads on global food and water challenges
MIT News – Engineering
MIT researchers supported by J-WAFS present results of their work on food and water security.
Major new study urges acceleration of decarbonisation
The Engineer
A new wide-ranging study from the Policy Forum in Science is calling for a sociotechnical, holistic approach to facilitate the rapid and deep decarbonisation required to avoid dangerous climate change.
Femtosecond events dictate efficiency of future solar cells
The Engineer
Experiments in the UK and Italy find that perovskite solar cells will need to take advantage of ultrafast events to stretch the limits of their energy conversion efficiency.
Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Last year, SRI’s Alexander Kernbaum introduced us to Abacus Drive, a new kind of rotary transmission based on pure rolling motion that promises to be much cheaper and much more energy efficient than harmonic gears, which are the current (quite expensive) standard. Now Kernbaum is back with another ingenious—and cleverly named—transmission design. It’s called Inception Drive, and he describes it as “an ultra-compact infinitely variable transmission based on a novel nested pulley configuration” that’s designed to make robots, and all kinds of other things, safer, more affordable, and vastly more efficient.
A Bittersweet Milestone for the World’s Safest Nuclear Reactors
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Westinghouse is poised to start up its first AP1000 nuclear reactors in China, fighting on in a troubled market.
Montagem da cobertura do novo estádio do Atlético de Madrid
Engenharia Civil
O gabinete espanhol Cruz y Ortiz divulgou imagens em time-lapse da construção da cobertura do icónico Estádio Wanda Metropolitano (Estádio Olímpico de Madrid), a nova sede do clube de futebol Atlético de Madrid.
How to write the perfect graduate engineering CV
The Engineer
Writing CVs can be particularly tricky for engineers because of the need to balance technical and transferable skills. Our guide will set you in the right direction.