Engineer: Offshore Platforms Need More Height (Rigzone)Offshore oil and natural gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico need to be built as much as 10 feet higher than had been thought, an engineer told the National Hurricane Conference on Thursday.
Combined Hovercraft and Helicopter (Slashdot)An anonymous reader writes "Has British engineer Geoff Hatton brought us the best of two worlds with his UFO-looking machine? The US military thinks so and are investing in it. The design is sturdy (as opposed to a helicopter) and can fly high (as opposed to a hovercraft). It is based on the Coanda Effect."
Engineer finds destiny at Clarksville firm (Louisville Courier-Journal)Although engineer Jorge Lanz likes to leave nothing to chance professionally, he makes no bones about the role chance has played in his life -- guiding his family from his native Cuba to Colombia in time to avoid the fighting that put Fidel Castro in power in 1959.