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Monthly Archives: March 2012

The most important inventions

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

While at the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks ago, I got to thinking about inventions that have really changed the EE’s life. Major, major factors in what we work on, the way we work, or our methods. There were said to be 153,000 attendees at CES and more than 20,000 new product launches. Out [...]

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Analog design kits ease students educational experience

Friday, March 23, 2012

Analog Devices and Digilent announced at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association  in Austin, TX, two all-in-one analog design kits that enhance engineering students’ educational experience by allowing students to experiment quickly and easily with advanced technologies and build and test real-world, functional analog design circuits anytime – anywhere – right on their [...]

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ENERGY STAR® Luminaires Spec is Almost Here

Friday, March 23, 2012

Last June I wrote about the effective date for the new ENERGY STAR luminaires spec (v1.1) being postponed until April of this year (see blog: ENERGY STAR Extends Effective Date for New Luminaires Spec). With April less than a month away, I thought it would be a good time for a reminder. I mentioned in [...]

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The CEC Looks at Efficiency Enforcement

Friday, March 23, 2012

In the fall of 2010, I attended a weeklong conference focusing on the verification, monitoring, and enforcement (VME) of energy efficiency regulations. Over 100 agency professionals from countries including China, India, Korea, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States met in London to discuss how efficiency standards were being enforced in other [...]

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Final UPS Spec is Right Around the Corner

Friday, March 23, 2012

A year ago this month I reported that ENERGY STAR® had released the test method for its uninterruptible power supply spec and that we should see the final spec sometime in July. (See blog: New Developments for Uninterruptible Power Supply Spec.) It took a little longer than expected, but this month ENERGY STAR released its [...]

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Life’s Coming Attractions

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Most of us remember Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy, right? Then you likely recall the scene in the second movie where Marty uses his skateboarding skills to escape the bad guys on his hoverboard. Yup, his hoverboard. Do you know what year that scene was set? 2015. So where are the [...]

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European Commission sets its Sights on New Product Groups

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The European Commission recently concluded a study to determine what new products should be included in its ErP (Energy related Products) Ecodesign Directive working plan for 2012-2014. The study examined 36 different product groups and assessed them according to their environmental improvement potential. Some of the factors in the assessment were: negative environmental impact (e.g., [...]

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