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National Engineer’s Week is 60 years strong

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

February 20 through the 26th, 2011 marks the 60th annual National Engineers Week. Members of the National Engineers Week Foundation coalition, including major manufacturers, universities, schools and science centers, offer a series of events starting this week to both celebrate the engineering profession and reach out to future generations of engineers. This year’s events include [...]

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Are nanocarbons the next big thing?

Friday, February 11, 2011

According to a recent report from iRAP, Inc. (www.innoresearch.net), they are. In the February 2011 report, “ET-113: Production and Application of Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Nanofibers, Fullerenes, Graphene and Nanodiamonds: A Global Technology Survey and Market Analysis” iRAP predicts that nanocarbon product production will triple by 2015. Known for their versatile electrical and mechanical properties, nanocarbon [...]

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Heads up: Molex at DesignCon ’11

Monday, January 24, 2011

If you’re headed to DesignCon (January 31 – February 3 in Santa Clara, CA) this year, be sure to stop by booth #501 and check out the latest additions to Molex’s Impact connector system. The Impact Orthogonal direct connectors and the Impact Plus 85-Ohm backplane connectors both feature increased data rates and other enhancements for [...]

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Watch the “world’s smallest battery” in action!

Monday, December 20, 2010

My Outlook article for our January 2011 issue is about the “world’s smallest” lithium battery created by the research team at Sandia National Laboratories. The team created the battery inside of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) so they could observe the effect of charging on the battery. What [...]

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EDS: Industry News

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

One of the big announcements at the show this year is that as of January 2011, NEDA (the National Electronics Division Association) and ECA (Electronic Components Association) will merge to become ECIA (the Electronic Components Industry Association). The organizations have had successful collaborations in the past, prompting them to finally join forces with the mission [...]

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New products debut at EDS

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Although this is primarily a distributor show, there are still a good portion of new products being announced. Here are just a few of the products I’ve seen today: Harting presented their latest addtion to their Han line, the Han-Yellock locking connector series. These innovative industrial connectors feature a pushbutton locking technolgy instead of the [...]

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EDS Begins with the ‘Best of the Best’

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The 73rd annual EDS kicked off earlier this evening with an “All Industry Event – Best of the Best” that was a bit different that previous years. In lieu of a keynote address, George Bournazian of BtB Marketing hosted award presentations to distributors selected by an industry-wide survery conducted earlier in the year. Some of [...]

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