Technology

INCA is an organization of Washington, DC-area inventors meeting monthly for educational and mutual-assistance purposes.

Comprehensive online source of information for inventors and entrepreneurs, plus free inventors newsletter. Based in Southampton, Hampshire, UK.

Aims to provide institutional support for innovations and help their transition to self supporting activities. Includes a database of innovations, in various categories, that have received awards.

An independent service provider, created as an initiative of the lighting industry in the german language countries of Europe.

The STLD offers information about television lighting, lighting directors and lighting equipment in the UK.

Provides information on lighting systems and lamp products including light fixtures, bulbs and ballasts, and fluorescent, incandescent, halogen, HID, LED, and solar lamps.

Part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Lighting Research Center is a university-based research center devoted to lighting. Provides details of the areas of research.

Magazine providing solid state lighting news. Includes tests and reviews.

Full service product development firm offering rapid prototyping and tooling.

Design consultants for a wide range of manufacturing technologies, including injection-molded plastics, progressive die formed sheet metal, die cut labels, and mechanical engineering support for surface-mounted printed circuit boards.

Department of Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science, Department of Materials Processing.

Hard, wear-resistant, low thermal conductivity ceramic with high fracture toughness and bend strength.

Research group for environmentally friendly sustainable composite materials. [UK]

Materials research in the field of energy technologies, comprising metallurgy, ceramics, solid state physics and materials chemistry. Contains details about the program, staff, user facilities and news.

Department of Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland. Undertaking research into functional ceramics, structural ceramics, colloidal chemistry for ceramic processing and modelling materials behaviour using the CALPHAD approach.

Superconductivity and cryomagnetic low temperature engineering and instrumentation. London, with many international contacts listed.

King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

A web based cost estimation tool that can be used to design products in a cost effective manner. Also includes some articles on different manufacturing processes.

Presents theory and design of cryocoolers including Stirling machines and Pulse Tubes.

Training and certification in all segments of the HVAC/R industry.

Industry association for the MEMS and microstructures industries

Research group of Dr. Joseph Talghader. Includes information on group members, and details of various research projects

Sixth International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems. Covers simulations of MEMS and other microsystems. San Francisco, CA, USA.

Portal-type main site for 80,000 member technical society.

Includes events, discussion forum, directory of member societies and job advertisements.

Detailed information with drawings and pictures about various types of alternative transmission designs. English and Portuguese.

Used for borefields, landfill gas extraction, and water supply design.

Downloadable calculators. Includes line and circle problems such as a circle tangent to two circles.

Offers free software for the calculation of the static pressure on rails, acceleration time and weight estimation.

Web based calculation software for machine elements like shafts, gears, shaft-hub connections, springs and timing belts.

International society of professionals associated with mining and mineral-related industries. Technical publications, about mining and metallurgy, current news and organization activities.

Provides access to materials engineering data including steel, aluminium, composites, thermoplastics, copper, titanium, magnesium and alloys.

Publication to further the science of metrology and the industry of calibration through the sharing of information about developments in the field.

Unofficial project information on the Theatre High Altitude Area Defense System, an anti-ballistic missile system designed to complement MEADS and Patriot batteries. Includes image gallery and technical specifications.

Information from Wikipedia on this United States Army system to shoot down short and medium range ballistic missiles.

Brings together representatives from academia, industry, and government who have a common interest in marine mining and exploration. Includes historical background and abstracts library.

Nonprofit corporation dedicated to the promotion of western coal through education. Includes membership, publications, news, and events.

Covers dredging, mining, metal detecting, prospecting for gold. Published monthly since 1931.

Supply user-driven database applications and consulting services for coal and other energy mining.

Technology company providing specialist software and services to the global mining, port, power generation and bulk commodity industries.

Department of Physics: Condensed Matter Physics: Zettl Research Group: research into the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of novel materials, including nanostructures such as telescoping nanotube bearings. (Berkeley)

Malcolm Brown's Nanopage: ongoing research in the structure and synthesis of nanostructures and high resolution transmission electron microscopy and specialized light microscopy.

Source of investment research and business strategy services, focusing on nanotechnology materials. Menlo Park.

Non-profit organisation founded to conduct research aimed at developing molecular manufacturing.

Scientific consultancy. Undertakes research into creating and designing innovative nanotechnology products.

The Centre for BioNano Interactions (CBNI) is a multi-disciplinary platform for Nanotoxicology and NanoMedicine at the University College Dublin.

News and analysis of technology, science, business and life.

Contact information and links for local networks sharing knowledge on engineering and technology.

Overview, newsletter, committees, activities and programs.

Overview of programs, committees, and sections including one for younger members.