Instrument Engineers

SMOS satellite successfully launched.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/22/2009; 1020 words; ...launcher. To get round the problem, mission engineers borrowed a clever idea from radio-astronomers...practical enough to launch into space, the SMOS engineers built the MIRAS instrument. MIRAS has three foldable arms, each 3 meters...

New data from Tsinghua University illuminate research in geoscience.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 11/20/2009; 721 words; ...the need to design practical single-pixel remote sensing instruments involving less storage space, less power consumption, and...Sensing Letters is: IEEE-Institute Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc., 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA. Keywords...

Scientists at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology target computer programming.(Report)
Computer Weekly News; 11/19/2009; 855 words; ...RFID deployment, an RFID benchmarking instrument called alpha Gate has been invented to...which are extremely challenging for engineers to analyze. In this paper, we introduce...and a 3D spatial viewer, to help RFID engineers analyze benchmark data visually and intuitively...

New data from P. Sarti et al illuminate research in surveying and engineering.
Journal of Engineering; 11/18/2009; 898 words; ...focal length as the antennas are steered in elevation. Both instruments have Azimuth-Elevation mounts and have 32 m parabolic mirrors...Surveying Engineering - Asce is: Asce-American Society Civil Engineers, 1801 Alexander Bell Dr., Reston, VA 20191-4400, USA...

2010 U.S. Engineering Services Industry Report.
Journal of Engineering; 11/18/2009; 731 words; ...of machines, materials, instruments, structures, processes...Civil engineering Sanitary engineers Heating and ventilation engineering...Structural engineering Industrial engineers Acoustical engineering Machine...Mechanical engineering Consulting engineer Petroleum, mining, and chemical ...