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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. As his fascination with different engineering fields grew, he set out to explore them. Gaynor’s hands-on experience and love of engineering led to a successful career with 3M in St.

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To Look Forward, Sometimes You Have to Look Back

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Magazines love to dabble in prognostication, particularly when it comes to emerging technology. Each January, we look at projects across the globe and from a range of engineering disciplines that will have major milestones in the coming year. Back in 2001, Senior Editor Michael J.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. His mother taught elementary school; his father, Kim Byung-Woon, was a textile engineer for.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Many youngsters are inspired to pursue engineering by fiddling with gadgets. While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., The activity won him the university’s President’s Circle Award in 2001. Not Fregene. And everything changed.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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From 1979 to 1982 he was a senior researcher at NTT Basic Research Labs and was promoted in 1982 to senior staff engineer of the company’s personnel and international affairs. He was named director of the university’s library in 2009 and became director of the Contents Utilization Center in 2011, when he was named professor emeritus.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. Artwick was right. New versions landed on best-seller charts.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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then based in Mountain View, he realized that silicon technology had advanced to the point that, with careful engineering, a complete central processor could fit on a chip. Early Neural Networks Hoff liked the engineering courses at Rensselaer, but not the narrow focus of the college itself. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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