Precision Agriculture and Aerospace

Precision Agriculture and Aerospace

What do Precision Agriculture and Aerospace have in common? On December 13th, 2016, about 100 farm entrepreneurs, technology advisors, interested sector development people and others, gathered at Southport Manitoba to see how much the two sectors of Agriculture and...
U of M Engineering Capstone Project

U of M Engineering Capstone Project

EnviroTREC ready to send U of M Engineering Capstone Project back up north! EnviroTREC and its sponsors supported a U of Manitoba Engineering Capstone project for the fall of 2016. The purpose of this project was to direct sunlight to the turbine blades, to support a...

Designing an Electric Plane for NASA

To win a competition, a Georgia Tech student devised a fuel-cell plane to rival today’s best-selling small aircraft Originally published by Tom Neuman for IEEE Spectrum on May 24h 2016 If you fly one of today’s small piston-powered planes, you will burn many gallons...

Lufthansa takes delivery of the world's first Airbus A320neo

Originally published by Lufthansa Group on February 12th 2016 Lufthansa, Airbus and Pratt & Whitney holding a delivery ceremony in Hamburg – First scheduled A320neo flights with better fuel efficiency and more passenger comfort achieved through quieter engines...

New Metal Alloys Are Shaking up Aerospace

Improved simulation and analysis tools are helping develop more and better once-exotic alloys, plus good old aluminum, for lighter aerospace designs with less waste.  by Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly. Originally published in...