Engineering

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is set to investigate the site of Friday's chemical plant explosion in Donaldsonville, La. The CF Industries plant, which manufactures nitrogen fertil… Read More

About 73,000 drinking-water systems across the U.S. need fixing, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and the cost to deal with it is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Las Vegas has… Read More

The Office of Management and Budget last month issued guidance regarding conference spending by federal agencies. The guidance directed agencies to take steps to limit conference-related costs, but ac… Read More

Wisconsin Electric Power has renewed its service and maintenance contract with Vestas-American Wind Technology for four years. The contract will cover 180 turbines with an aggregate capacity of 309 me… Read More

Increasingly, education initiatives are including manufacturing as a career path, especially careers in advanced manufacturing technologies. Manufacturing groups and associations are also eagerly reac… Read More

Balloons drifting along 12 miles high could be a future source of Wi-Fi broadband access for much of the two-thirds of the world's surface that doesn't have it. Google's Project Loon, recently an expe… Read More

Advances in technology, including 3D printing and innovations in treating dread disease, could make immortality more probable, according to Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering for Google. By treatin… Read More