4

Competitive Materials and Solutions

  • release dateWinter 1998
  • volume28
  • number4
  Articles In This Issue  

The Bridge, Volume 28, Number 4 - Winter 1998
Articles

  • [Periodical Article]

    Transforming Information into Prosperity

    Federal investments in basic, high-risk information-technology research, including software, will be essential to ensuring the intellectual and technical underpinnings of the U.S. S&T enterprise. Advances in information technology will provide the basis for much of America's ... Read More

    Author: Neal Lane

    Competitive Materials and Solutions

    Release date: Winter 1998

    Volume: 28

    Number: 4

  • [Periodical Article]

    Materials Challenges for Fusion Energy

    Materials R&D will play a major role in determining fusion's future viability as an energy-production method. Fusion - the forceful joining of light atoms - is the process that operates our sun. It is a nuclear process, and heat is one of the by-products. Of course, under normal ... Read More

    Author: Steven J. Zinkle

    Competitive Materials and Solutions

    Release date: Winter 1998

    Volume: 28

    Number: 4

  • [Periodical Article]

    Engineering Competitive Materials (editorial)

    Today's marketplace for manufactured goods is customer driven. Increasingly sophisticated consumers demand low-cost, highly specialized products, tailored to meet specific needs. These manufactured products derive their competitive value from several sources, including appropriate designs and ... Read More

    Author: James C. Williams

    Competitive Materials and Solutions

    Release date: Winter 1998

    Volume: 28

    Number: 4

  • [Periodical Article]

    Semiconductor Materials Research Needs for the 21st Century

    The ability to understand and control materials, and to manufacture them at the atomic level, will be essential if the computer industry is to continue on its historical productivity growth curve. In a typical day, most people will interact with about 300 semiconductors. Semiconductors ... Read More

    Author: Paul S. Peercy

    Competitive Materials and Solutions

    Release date: Winter 1998

    Volume: 28

    Number: 4

  • [Periodical Article]

    Diversity in Engineering

    Every time an engineering problem is approached with a pale, male design team, it may be difficult to find the best solution, understand the design options, or know how to evaluate the constraints. Two years ago, my topic for this talk was change. I had just become the president of ... Read More

    Author: Wm. A. Wulf

    Competitive Materials and Solutions

    Release date: Winter 1998

    Volume: 28

    Number: 4