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CLASS OF 2026 - Having earned her Bachelor's in Industrial & Systems Engineering in December 2025, this USC Viterbi graduate is now crossing the finish line of her Master's in Engineering Management — and she's just getting started. The post Built Different: How a Lima Factory Girl Earned Her Viterbi Degree appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

My townhouse has a balcony that is supported by a main structural beam which sits on 2 vertical piers: All balconies' beams have visible bowness.  My building was constucted in 2011, the rest are 3-4 ...

The symptoms you see in the field are consistent: the editor plays fine in short demos but users report OOM kills during heavy scrubbing, preview stalls when multiple filters are applied, exports that crash mid‑way, and background uploads that never finish. Those failures come from a single design anti-pattern — eagerly materializing full‑resolution frames for many layers and operations instead o…

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission.

Amazon will buy a new type of HVAC system for its commercial buildings to slash energy use.

Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72651-x Recently, there has been growing interest in realizing quantum heat engines using superconducting circuits. Here the authors demonstrate a cyclic quantum heat engine based on superconducting circuits, showing controlled heating, cooling, and positive work extraction, with measured power and efficiency in agreemen…

Designing a successful QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) in Texas involves much more than creating an efficient floor plan. From high-powered kitchen equipment to drive-thru technology systems, electrical design challenges in QSR projects can quickly become major construction and operational issues if not addressed early.

I am attempting to replace a selenium rectifier in a Lafayette LR-800 tube amp. The old rectifier gets 15vac in, and my voltmeter measures -9.75vdc output (positive ties to the chassis) under load. I ...

The startup has put a spin on repurposing EV batteries, CEO Edward Chiang told TechCrunch.

Energy costs continue to rise, while sustainability regulations become stricter each year. What used to be considered advanced building technology is now turning into a baseline requirement. Smart buildings are no longer a differentiator — they are an expectation.

The MEP Systems That Can’t Afford to Stay Manual Most buildings don’t fail dramatically. They drift. A tenant complains that one side of the floor is too warm. The maintenance team bumps a setpoint. A booster pump gets noisier, but it still holds pressure. A panel schedule is “mostly right,” except for the circuits that no one updated after the last buildout. Nothing looks broken enough to stop t…

Modern construction projects are more complex than ever, involving greater performance demands through mixed-use spaces against a backdrop of onerous budget pressures and increasingly stringent standards in terms of safety and sustainability. Behind every successful build, there is a whole network of engineering checks and balances designed to verify that materials perform as expected. Material t…

SLAC's Derek Mendez and Xueli "Sherry" Zheng have been honored with prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program awards to develop novel AI tools that will accelerate drug discovery and advance energy storage to power the future.

A new facility purpose-built for additive manufacturing has opened at the Bristol base of the British aerospace and defence company Rolls-Royce. The Additive Manufacturing Development Cell was inaugurated by Luke Pollard MP, Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, with Claire Hazelgrove MP also in attendance. Backed by UK Ministry of Defence funding, the cell is…

This Collection invites original research on the development and application of digital twins for security testing, aiming to advance secure-by-design principles in complex systems.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50657-1 An intelligent cloud-based battery management framework integrating GRU state-of-health estimation and double DQN charging optimisation

In 2024, 68% of FDM 3D printing failures stem from misconfigured slicer profiles, according to a survey of 12,000 prints across 400 open-source hardware labs. This tutorial walks you through building a programmatic slicer profile management tool that cuts failure rates by 72% and reduces manual tuning time from 12 hours to 45 minutes, validated against 1,200 benchmark prints. What You'll Build Yo…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-49840-1 Adaptive long short term memory-PI based control for load frequency regulation in electric vehicle integrated two area power systems

Scientific Reports, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-44932-4 A novel reduced-switch asymmetric multilevel inverter with scalable structure and flexible source selection algorithms