Recent Engineering Articles page 2

Forbes - The result is that private sector companies are taking a greater responsibility in the sector, although to date investors have been mainly from a background in utilities, engineering and/or technology. At the same time, public sector outsourcing is ...

Miami Herald - A growing number of lawmakers in Congress are voluntarily giving up one of the biggest perks of office - at the risk of alienating their constituents. More than 20 members of the House and Senate have vowed not to seek any new earmarks for their ...

Detroit News - That's where the engineering begins." GM uses XM's advanced weather and traffic data on the 2008 Cadillac CTS, and it is examining additional features. Many of the features are passed along to GM's marketing department, which determines if there's a ...

Baltimore Sun - The question forced Kovacic and his engineering team to put two months into a part-by-part comparison of their car with the Camry and to propose hundreds of design upgrades. The result was a vehicle that Car and Driver magazine rated better than the ...

Miami Herald - President Bush and top congressional leaders are looking for quick agreement on how to pump as much as $150 billion in tax cuts and government spending into the ailing economy to head off a recession. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and leaders ...

Miami Herald - The Los Angeles Times fired its top editor after he rejected a management order to cut $4 million from the newsroom budget, 14 months after his predecessor was also ousted in a budget dispute, the newspaper said Sunday. James O'Shea was fired ...

Miami Herald - Georgia Lee threw a 45th birthday party for her live-in boyfriend Saturday night. But she won't see Winston G. Calder turn 46. Nor will she get to see her children grow up. Calder confessed Monday to shooting Lee to death early Sunday morning ...

San Francisco Gate - A glance back at the Golden Gate Bridge project reveals it took a mere 4 years, 4 months and 22 days from start to finish. At the time, the Golden Gate Bridge represented a much more formidable engineering feat. To boot, we are having the complex ...

Miami Herald - Vic Biberston prepares to work on his back stroke as he trains for a triathlon. 'Swim, bike and run ... Everyone loves swimming,' he says. Vic Biberston knows what it's like to be the fat guy, the last one chosen for sports teams. He knows what it's ...

Los Angeles Times - Moore, the USC transportation engineering program director, could take trips from USC to Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. He could walk to Vermont Avenue and take a Rapid bus up to Hollywood Boulevard, and then transfer to a bus that would take ...