Technology Definition and 492 Threads

I am having difficulty finding reliable sources of news and information regarding the status of various methods of attempting to generate energy through fusion, but unfortunately, the information is either outdated, is nothing but rumour and conjecture, or has been... how shall I put it...

What technology can I use to upload a video so that I can edit some parts? For example, I like watching anime online and will like to edit a scene where I believe the anime studio did a horrible job. The video I want to edit is on Crunchyroll (which is an anime website), how can I (for the lack...

Hi, I am seeking some opinions regarding a degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology. I do understand the general scope of the degree opposed to Mechanical Engineering. I am without a college education and working full-time in Quality Control at an industrial CO2 laser company. A local...

Hi guys, I've been reading a bit and watching a few youtube videos on electric aircraft, but have come across little to do with supersonic aircraft. As far as I understand it an electric aircraft would use basically fans to push air behind it and as such generate thrust. The problem would be...

New DNA sequencing technology allows the human genome to be sequenced in a matter of days: http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/medical/new-technology-at-wash-u-maps-human-genome-in-days/article_9ed22975-a385-5b53-897a-ff88cba2442b.html Maybe the Twenty-First Century is starting...

Today's hearing with the FBI.

Long story short, I built a prototype of a medical device in about 2 months, and it turns out a local start-up company has been working on something similar for over a year. They want to "buy" the prototype in exchange for some share of the company and a (probably underpaid) position. Since I...

I'm currently a class 12 student in a CBSE school. I'm interested in pursuing a career in astrophysics. I'm not sure of which university to go to for my undergraduate studies. Furthermore, my senior is advising me to apply to Indian Institute of technology. But its rank in qs top universities...

I love this, ain't it the truth! ;) cheers DaveIf Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part): 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash...twice a day. 2.. Every time they repainted the lines...

Hello, all. I am currently a Junior in Mechanical Engineering. I was doing really well up until this current semester and my grades are starting to get lower and I have been losing interest in the material. I am considering switching to civil because their technical gpa requirements are a bit...

The problem statement Hi I'm writing a report on a design of a basic all-NAND circuit. In reality, how are these circuits made ? Do we just use TTL etc. integrated circuits and combine them as necessary? Thanks

Here in Missouri, MST has a very good academic reputation, but it seems this is not true everywhere. This is all wildly imaginative at this point (HS Senior), but if I were to major in physics at MST, (assuming I made good grades), is it unreasonable to hope to get into grad school at some of...

I am going to write a scifi comic and it has technology that we would see in the 22nd century. People have become spacefaring and they have built colonies on the moon and mars. Nanotechnology, robots and AI such as Cortana are commonplace. Extinct species can be cloned along with a lot of other...

I've always been extremely interested in the science and concepts behind learning different languages. I often find myself wondering why we haven't developed a single worldwide language. Its odd that, apart from already being multilingual or using translators, we can't even natively communicate...

Hi everyone. I am looking for some insight on going from Electrical Engineering Technician with a Bachelors in Technology to getting a Masters in Science for Electrical Engineering. I would like some thoughts on: How hard will the transition be? What challenges might I face? Will it be...

I think I'm kind of geared more towards Mechanical Engineering Technology because of it's practicality, but I also want to make my own designs, which isn't really taught in MET, where you get to do other people's designs. But for some reason I don't want to do just ME or MET. So I've 2...

Let's say you are a college student with not much disposable income and looking for a hobby. I want to learn to be more savvy with the devices and objects in the world. Have some idea of how to fix a car, how to fix things in the house, know how the house works inside, be less clueless when I...

I am an undergraduate Physics major, and I cannot decide if I want to go to grad school fro Astrophysics or Electrical Engineering; I love them both. I want to combine the two, and so my ideal job would be working on the electronics and technology used in space. I would love to work on projects...

I've pondered this a lot recently. I am an amateur electronics enthusiast. Recently I've been trying to build my own capacitors, resistors and radio/tv receivers/transmitters from scratch. A thought occurred to me, what would alien technology look like? and would it evolve the same way ours did...

I have an AS degree in Computer Science. I'm in the process of transferring to a 4-year university to pursue a BS in Envionrmental Science. I've always been heavily interested in computers, including running my own web & email server, database administration, hardware, and networking. I have run...

I am interested in doing research in controlled nuclear fusion , i am doing my electrical engineering 4th year in India. Since no college in my country offers post graduation in fusion related fields , i have decided to do M.Tech in Nuclear science and technology in Indian Institute of Technolgy...

I got this while I was reading spinor indices manipulating in Sredinicki's qft in case of spinor representation we get a relation like the following one: ##[(ψ_a^{'}(0))^{\dagger},M^{\mu \nu},]= [(S^{\mu \nu}{}_R)_{a^{'}}{}^{~b^{'}}](ψ_{b {'}}(0))^{\dagger}## where ##a^{'}## and ##b^{'}##...

The scenario is the following: A society that is less advanced than the one producing a certain technology is exposed to the latter. The person who finds the device/fragment in question is either a A, layman, a B, trained engineer or an C, inventor/visionary, and the technology might range...

I'm a second year physics major and I want to work in quantum engineering. I think it's the future of technology. What degree should I do? I'm pretty much torn between physics and engineering physics. Obviously there's a trade off: engineering physics focuses more on applying concepts to the...

Hi, I just went through the PhD programs offered by this university. They have 4 pillars...as they call it..one of which is Engineering Product Development (EPD), which I am interested to pursue. From what's given in their brochure.. "EPD pillar’s mission is to prepare graduate-level leaders...

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding aerospace technology civil engineering. What are the chances that you get to work with companies such as NASA and SpaceX? In case it is low, what do you do otherwise with the degree you have been working on? I might want to pursue a degree in...

Hello all. Nice to meet you. I don't want to know what's smaller than a quark but I am sure many here have spent a lot of time thinking about the future. In terms of new technology. I have some of my own theories for some of things that we'll definitely see in the future. I'm betting on flying...

I need someone to check my home work wafer preparation The Attempt at a Solution material for wafer preparation raw material - silicon is raw material MGS metalluragical grade silicon EGS electron grade silicon wafer making equipment crucible pure silicon is placed in crucible that...

whats the pressure of piston in suction stroke...and if we increase it could we get more benifit

Hello. Is electrostatic precipitation technology relevant nowadays? Is it worth making candidate dissertation on it? I am going to investigate back-corona discharge in ESP and operation of ESP under hight inlet dust loadings by means of mathematical modelling (Comsol, my own programs if it's...

Could anyone recommend an up-to-date and not too advanced book or online notes on applied quantum mechanics or quantum technology? Most of my books are quite old and I need to have a basic understanding of the subject for a work experience project in six weeks time. Thank you!

I want to go into nanotechnology but also keep my options open for employment purposes when I graduate. At the moment I'm Chemistry & Material Science double major and I thought that'd be a good combo however at the moment I'm thinking, would MatSci for a B.S be oddly too specific for a B.S...

Does a person need to have an interest in technology, in general, in order to be a (successful?) computer programmer? I ask, because I believe I saw this mentioned in another thread somewhere not too long ago and I've been looking into the computer programming field the past week. I think...

Hi all, I am wondering about the actual technological parameters of a modern MRI. In particular I mean sensitivity, i.e. the order of magnitude of the signals to be detected and the noise levels in practice. Can somebody recommend a good reference about the subject from an engineering...

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-breakthrough-therapy-paraplegic-men-voluntarily.html This is pretty good and seems as if the field is progressing quite fast.

This is something pretty new, why do you think that nobody take the risk to build it, up to these days? I was looking for different concepts and saw few projects from MIT, some quasiturbine projects, some liquid piston engines, doyle engine. But let's face it - too complicated, now these videos...

Does anyone feel like we're becoming too dependent on technology? The other day I didn't have my cell phone with me and I realized I didn't know my mother's phone number :redface:; nowadays phones allow us to "touch" a name, or even say, "Call mom". It was a profound and embarrassing moment...

I just started my Mechanisms and dynamics class today for engineering. We already got the first assignment that's due in a day or so. The assignment consists of only 3 questions but first one is totally confusing me and I don't know what to do about it. I emailed the instructor 10 hours ago and...

Hi, since I don't have money, I didn't include BS Air Transportation in my choices. My friend and I are really confused. We are now already in college and currently taking aerospace engineering. However, it is so hard but I think we can make it (we haven't failed so far) but the problem is the...

So I watched The Incredible Bionic Man on Youtube the other day(link below). For those who have not seen it, a group of researchers take technology from all over the world and merge it into one robot. It is not the best technology available but it is impressive nonetheless. Subscribing...

Hi, is there a website that gives the detailed design and technology of various devices/equipment and/or manufacturing processes? howstuffworks, popsci and other similar sites have very trivial and basic information. some typical examples i am trying to find are.. camera, fridge...

Aside from accessibility/affordability reasons why aren't students allowed to use technology in exams? For example why is it so uncommon to be able to use a computer algebra system? The only reason I ever heard was from my elementary school teacher is that you don't want to put all your trust in...

Where would you use our new radiation detector? We are a student team from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Currently we are working on project with the research center CERN and try to find different application possibilities for an innovative technology by interviewing...

i'm going to say yes yes because i notice I've been drinking tap water since i was a kid and even though its not fully treated or clean at all my body overtime can take it while i notice ppl who only drink 100% pure clean bottled or treated water, for eg. my aunt who visited from overseas...

Greetings PFers You’ve probably heard of the new “revolution” called Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) which is a method of data transmission utilizing the modulation of very high frequencies in LED light bulbs. A good demonstration (And probably the first) is here...

I'm seriously considering pursuing some sort of Engineering Technology degree at Purdue. Right now I'm leaning towards Electrical Engineering Technology because I love the idea of getting hands on with circuits, controls, and sensors. However, I've heard the reputation of normal EE degrees being...

Hello, I started this topic to discuss interesting new night vision technology that was presented on TED talks. Old, expensive and bulky IR (or other light spectrum) IIT amplifier could be replaced with very thin OLED based, cheaper and low power consuming image intensifier which was developed...

In the above fig the arrow indicates that just reactive power is following in and out from the AC1 & AC2. Does it mean that there is no real power follow from AC1 & AC2.

So for my physics class, we are trying to find modern applications for different areas of research. I know the HST had a lot of help in the areas of breast cancer research and eye surgery but what are some applications for modern technology that have stemmed from cosmic microwave background...

Hi Everyone, I am currently doing my final year in B.Tech Engineering Physics. During these 3 years studying this course, I understood that learning Engineering was never the intent of this course in my college.. Faculty were stuffing us with Pure Physics with Applied or Engineering Physics...