Most engineers are surprised to learn that the term mechatronics isnearly 40 years old. It was first used in1969 by Tetsuro Mori, anengineer at the Yaskawa Company, to describe a system composed ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. While the algorithms used to control body electronics systems are usually thought to be fairly simple, the overall complexity of the full vehicle ...

How model-based systems engineering (MBSE) has improved system design. Thermal design and MBE come together. When considering systems-level design, it’s important to understand the criticality of the ...

New Toolbox Streamlines Battery Management System Design, Testing, and Algorithm Deployment Workflows on NXP Processors NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MathWorks, the leading developer of mathematical ...

Automation aims to standardize industrial operations and bring overall efficiency to today’s production lines. Such gains, however, may come with considerable effort, as engineering teams must ...

Heavy machinery is entering a new phase where hydraulics, electronics and embedded software are engineered as one integrated system. Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a framework to ...

A hackathon challenged aerospace students to develop a detailed digital system model for a robotic assistant for astronauts on the Moon A hackathon challenged aerospace students to develop a detailed ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...

Software-defined hardware may be the ultimate Shift Left approach as chip design grows closer to true co-design than ever with potential capacity baked into the hardware, and greater functionality ...