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Design News - June 27, 2005

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While working on some of the military's most important defense aircraft during the early 1990s, Lockheed Martin engineer Paul Bevilaqua spent countless hours hunched in front of a Commodore 64 computer, playing Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. Bevilaqua, a renowned aerospace designer who holds a Ph.D. in engineering and is chief engineer of advanced projects at Lockheed, was developing professional expertise by crashing virtual airplanes into the virtual earth.

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Logic Analyzers Go Beyond 1's and 0's
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Lead-Free Just Keeps Going and Going and …
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Design News Partner Zones

CAD/CAE Model Clean-Up: Reduce Iterative Cycles
This webinar featured research and survey results related to problems associated with preparing CAD geometry for CAE applications. We discussed how Recipe-Based Automation can help create "just-in-time" CAE-ready geometry each time a cad model is updated. Watch the Presentation

Light Matters: Systems Level Approach to HBLED illumination applications
Its good practice to apply a systems-level approach to high-brightness LED (HBLED) illumination applications. Minimally, the system includes the optical, thermal and electrical characteristics of the of the HBLED, the lens (if any) which is built-in to its package, secondary optics such as external plastic lenses/reflectors to direct the light as your application requires and power driver electronics. Read More

Design Engineers' Portal for Sensing and Machine Safety
Whatever industry you're in, or whatever product you manufacture, the right sensors to automate your plant, and to improve your overall efficiency, quality and safety are a must. You'll find Banner Engineering to be an amazing resource of products, training and people with expertise.