CAD Tools: Breaking Barriers

Linda L. Bell, Editorial Director

With difficult economic times, CAD vendors are under more pressure than ever to provide customers with products that increase productivity, reduce time to market, and give them more value for their money. In our annual poll of CAD company executives, we found that new ...

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Utilizing Ocean Thermal Energy in a Submarine Robot

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

An OTEC thermodynamic cycle would be divided into surface and depth phases.

A proposed system would exploit the ocean thermal gradient for recharging the batteries in a battery-powered unmanned underwater vehicle [UUV (essentially, a small exploratory submarine robot)] of a type that has been deployed in large ...

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James Webb Telescope Components Pass Tests

Development models for components of the Mid-Infrared Instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) passed a series of temperature and vibration tests that show they can survive the ride to space. Now, engineers have begun building parts of the actual instrument.

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Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr., Director, John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

As Director of NASA’s John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. controls an annual budget of approximately $650 million and manages a labor force comprised of roughly 1,619 civil service employees who are supported by 1754 contractors working in more than 500 specialized research facilities.

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Wireless Video Surveillance System Secures Aircraft

AgileMesh/Firetide surveillance system
AgileMesh
Dallas, TX
972-231-2122
www.agilemesh.com

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center now protects several of its highly specialized research aircraft at its satellite facility with a wireless video surveillance system. The system is a product of AgileMesh, ...

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