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Engineering News All the News Fit to Link™-Archive- U.S. Government, Military to Get Secure Android Phones Motorola Makes Apple Pull iPads and iPhones in Germany Graphene Electronics Moves into a Third Dimension Are Tech Jobs Returning to the U.S.? Investments Set to Support Further UK Graphene Research Global Telecom Industry Revenue to Grow at 5.3% Annually Searching for a Solid That Flows Like a Liquid Amateur Allocation at 472 kHz Moves a Step Closer to Acceptance Computer Science High School to Open in NYC Samsung Retains Top Spot in American Mobile Phone Market Not Settling for Radio's Measly 7% MasterCard Delivers Popcorn to Movie-Goers with NFC Raytheon Wins $38.1M Contract for Missile Defense System First Pics of Next-Gen BlackBerry 10 Smartphone How Apple Can Revolutionize Television Is That a Crashed Flying Saucer on the Seabed? 4-Telescope Link-Up Creates World's Largest Mirror P&G to Lay Off 1,600 After Discovering It's Free to Advertise on Facebook EU Regulators Want Google to Halt New Privacy Policy Millisecond Pulsar Paradox Explained Press Releases - Archive- M/A-COM Technology Solutions Announces New Power Amplifier for Point-to-Point Applications Richardson RFPD Introduces High Power Brazed RF Resistor from Anaren RF Micro Devices Intros the RF6504 3.3 to 4.0 V, 433 to 470 MHz Transmit/Receive Front End Module Z-Communications Announces Ultra Small VCO Ideal for Mobile Radios Skyworks Launches Low-Noise and High-Linearity LNAs Doodle Labs Announces 4.4 GHz C-Band Broadband for the U.S. and NATO Military RF Cafe Software RF Cascade Workbook Your Host  Kirt Blattenberger... single-handedly redefining what an engineering website should be.
| Win a Free Book -Archive-  Each month, the winner can choose from a list of engineering books. Paul C. and Gary S. were the January 2012 winners.Notable Quote -Archive- "Procrastination is what you're doing when you are doing what you want to be doing." - Jorge Cham, Ph.D.Featured Book -Archive-  Dilbert: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar,by Scott Adams Cool Pic -Archive-  As recently as 1960, computers like this UNIVAC were still the only option for high speed data processing. These compact models required a mere 25x50-foot, air conditioned room to cool their 5,600 vacuum tubes (your computer has about 107 transistors). NPR mentions in its story a 1955 Broadway play called The Desk Set, pitting a fictional computer very much like UNIVAC against the reference library staff of a major radio-television network, otherwise known as "the desk set." In the end, the giant computer crashes and a librarian saves the day – with a hairpin. Katharine Hepburn (the librarian) and Spencer Tracy starred. A short video shows Walter Cronkite talking about the UNIVAC going against pundit knowledge and correctly predicted the outcome of the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections. The result? UNIVAC declared, "I like Ike."Cool Product -Archive-  Here is an accessory to add to your James Bond collection. These silver cufflinks double - no triple- as a 2 GB flash drive and as a Wi-Fi hot spot. USB flash drive cufflinks have been around for awhile and are plentiful on Amazon, but the Wi-Fi feature of this product is unique. I could not find any performance specifications for them, but there is a funny review on the website link (click the picture and scroll down). If you have a $250 to spare, you can buy a set and let me know how they work.Hobby & Fun Airplanes and Rockets: My personal hobby websiteEquine Kingdom: My daughter Sally's horse riding business website - lots of info Doggy Dynasty - My son-in-law's dog training business | Video for Engineers -Archive-  It is amazing how much of what was merely science fiction a few decades ago is now reality. This video of a swarm of 20 nano quadrotors developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab is reminiscent of something out of Star Wars or The Matrix. Not only are the tiny flying machines autonomously stable, but they can fly in formation either as a fixed shape moving simultaneously from location to location, but they also move in a dynamic formation like marquee lights. Their multiple electric-powered propellers make a high speed droning sound like bees, adding to the ominous presence that a militarized version would present to an aggressor. It's quite cool and quite spooky at the same time. A company called Kmel Robotics is credited with building the nano quadrotors. I want some.Smorgasbord -Archive-  Skyrocketing costs for college tuition have been an issue for a long time. Reports published lately show how the price of a semester of college has exploded in the last few decades. Those same investigations have determined that a big part of the increase has been due to the ease at which school loans can be obtained - very similar to the way housing costs have increased with easy access to mortgage money. As students were more able to pay the rate, supply and demand allowed costs to go up accordingly. For instance, the above chart shows that from 1982 to 2007 the cost of tuition, fees, room, and board increased by an average of about 450%. During the same period the median family income increased 150% and the CPI was up 100%. Even medical care "only" increased by 250%. To illustrate the oblivion nature of far too many students, at the behest of professors and administrators who are themselves part of "the 1%," from an income and privilege standpoint, the students attend Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations to rail against the 1%. Ivory Tower pontificators blasting Capitalism while profiting from it are not limited to universities; their names are in the news on a daily basis. Engineering Jobs - Technical Director of RF Engineering Needed, Aethercomm - Director of Sales - Ferrite Products, TRAK | Channel Microwave - RF Engineering, Modelithics - Staff MEMS Design and Characterization Engineer, RFMD - RF Switch Lead Design Engineer, RFMD - Project/Product Managers, RFMD - RF Competitive Analysis Engineer, RFMD - Advanced Technology Development Engineers, RFMD - Sales Engineer, TRU Corp. | Daily Specials -Archive-- What's a Good "Real Engineer" Question? Rebuilding America: Really? Have We Given Up?
Congrats Also to Gary S. for Winning Igor Grigorov's Urban Antennas Advances in Radar Simulation Design, by L. Williams, M. Commens & S. Rousselle Congrats to Paul C. for Winning Microwave Materials for Wireless Applications! RF Switch Lead Design Engineer Needed by RFMD
Understanding the Magic Tee / 0° Hybrid Combiner / Divider, by Gary Breed The Importance of Peak Power Measurements for Radar Systems, by Bob Muro Staff MEMS Design and Characterization Engineer Needed by RFMD RF Cafe Quiz #44: Monopulse Principles and Techniques Radar Signature Analysis c.1967 Sherlock Ohms: Power Supplies Cause Confusion in Lab
Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle - 1/29/2012 Advanced Technology Development Engineers Sought by RFMD Sherlock Ohms: Battery Sparks Red-Hot Mystery What Were They Thinking: Patent Crazy in LEDs Project/Product Managers Sought by RFMD Understanding Transistor Circuits - A Novel
Predict Mixer Noise Behavior, by Roy Monzello Technical Director of RF Engineering Needed by Aethercomm Shocking But True, August 1959 Popular Electronics What It Takes to Become Better Managers and Leaders What's the Noise in Signal-to-Noise Ratio? RF Competitive Analysis Engineer Wanted by RFMD TRAK | Channel Microwave Looking for Director of Sales - Ferrite Products Short Courses for RF/Microwave Design, Antenna Design, RF PCB Design - University of Oxford Modern Signals Require a Modern Approach to Spectrum Monitoring and Emitter Location, by I.C. Tillman and Raymond Shen Poll: Is Your Job Secure? (see right border)
Unpopular Electronics - Poems from 1959 PE RF Engineering Position Opening at Modelithics "Over the Horizon" Transmission, Aug 1955 Popular Electronics |
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