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By Mitchell LaFrance The aerospace engineering department at Iowa State is welcoming back a familiar face this spring to teach senior design classes. Tomas Gonzalez-Torres, former flight director at the NASA Johnson Space Center, has moved back to Iowa so he can lend his experience to students looking to further their careers in the aviation and aerospace industry. Born in Puerto Rico...

Posted by Elizabeth Walton, Digital Content Producer Combs Middle School seventh grade honors students recently participated in the ASU Honeywell Fiesta Bowl Aerospace Challenge at the ASU Polytechnic Campus in Mesa, Arizona. The Aerospace Challenge allowed middle school students to enhance their space knowledge by creating a plan and physical model of an international lunar base. Students had been working in...

Teledyne LeCroy adds M328 High Speed Ethernet and Fibre Channel Fabric Traffic Analysis and Impairment Platform Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, is pleased to announce the latest in High Speed Ethernet Fabric tools, the SierraNet M328 Protocol Analysis system. SierraNet M328 leverages the success of the SierraNet T328, and offers our patented InFusion world-class traffic impairment...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking Internet of Things (IoT) development kits from Semtech. Designed to speed up the development and testing of IoT applications, Semtech’s IoT development kits take full advantage of LoRa technology, a disruptive wireless long-range technology delivering 10 times the range of competing solutions...

At 8mm, Honeywell’s Amplified Basic Pressure (ABP) sensors are industry leaders in compact form. These accurate and durable sensors come with amplified digital or analog output and can easily be incorporated into your design. Watch the video to learn more about their features and benefits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHVzBj0y9aA Starting at just 7mm X 8mm, amplified basic pressure sensors from Honeywell are among the...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced component solutions, today announced its second generation of D-series chip-on-board (COB) LED packages. The second generation features the industry’s highest light efficacy in COB lineups and is suitable for directional lighting applications such as multifaceted reflector (MR) bulbs, parabolic aluminized reflector (PAR) lamps, spotlights, downlights and high bay lights. This new...

Almost every railway station in India will soon be fed with solar power if the plans announced in India’s latest union budget are implemented. The Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the 7,000 railway stations across the country will be fed with solar power as per the Indian Railways mission to implement 1,000 megawatts of solar power capacity. The...

NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on exoplanets — planets that orbit stars other than our sun. As of Feb. 21, NASA has discovered and confirmed 3,440 exoplanets. The briefing participants are Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington; Michael Gillon, astronomer...

New York state-supported solar power increased by almost 800 percent from December 2011 to December 2016, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Tuesday, with almost $1.5 billion leveraged in private investment. The state saw 83.06 megawatts of solar installed through 2011, with the total installed through 2016 hitting 743.65 megawatts, an increase of 795 percent. "New York is a national leader...

Don Bosco Organisation, which runs five schools and one college in Mumbai, plans to move towards a zero energy setup -- reducing the use of coal for electricity and increasing the consumption of solar energy by 60%. Mumbai receives 300 days of sunlight a year, making it easily possible to move away from the usual carbon-emitting process of burning coal...