Design News - December 05, 2005

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Cover Story

In technical and academic circles, the word is usually spoken in a whisper:a million. China is headed toward a million engineers a year, the experts say. The number is so big, so far from our own experience, that reasonable people hesitate to say it too loudly for fear they'll be accused of exaggeration.

Departments

Trend Watch
Delivering High Bandwidth to VMEbus
Skip The Housing
Aerogels Heat Up
Weblog
Help Wanted
Mail
Readers Sound Off
Calamities
The Case of the Deviant Drill
Gadget Freak
You Can Get Scrooged Opening a Trap Door
Cool Software Tricks
Reusing Hard-to-Reuse Models
Expo
Electronics
Fluid Power
Motion Control
Web Resources
Rarely Asked Questions
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock
Bridging Islands of Information
Reference This!
Broadband Videophone
Green Scene
Environmental News Engineers Can Use
My View
Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Designer's Corner
Moving Liquid Through Vibration
Ask
Ask The Search Engineer

Feature

From The Trenches
Embedded CAE Tools Make a Complex Design Simpler to Analyze
Slack Variable
Slack Variable Episode II: Pas de Q

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