Sampling is the latest technology to remake music. It’s one more contribution from engineering to a 35,000-year-old art form.
Team leadership is a crucial aspect of engineering management. But how do teams work well together? In this edited extract from their book ‘Effective Team Leadership for Engineers’ Pat Wellington and Niall Foster examine teamwork.
Tired of the recession and juggling figures and business plans? All managers eventually need to find ways of motivating themselves. Entrepreneur and psychologist Steve Carter suggests going on a desert escapade.
E&T reflects on how the arrival of the MP3 player also signalled the rise of contract manufacturing in the consumer electronics industry.
Affordable equipment makes telescope control easier.
While it’s possible to pipe music around your home, getting everything to work in sync is difficult with today’s networks. The answer may lie in better software, says E&T.
E&T travels to the Kent countryside to hear a unique automatic organ.
When world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to thrash out the replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, the actions of emerging nations are seen as key to its success. In the first part of our extensive coverage before the summit, we focus on Brazil.
France's communications industry is bringing high-speed wired, wireless and fibre-optic networking to its consumers.
Effective communications are essential to Grace, a global chemicals and engineering company with operations in many territories and many different industries; when the company opted for an IP video conferencing solution, its plans certainly did not lack ambition, as its manager of global media networks Guy Welty tells E&T.
Sampling is the latest technology to remake music. It’s one more contribution from engineering to a 35,000-year-old art form.
The Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre in the Netherlands switched over to a new flight data processing system (FDPS) in December. It is the first in a pan-European network of ATC systems designed to cut flying times and boost air traffic capacity, and cut airliners’ fuel emissions and costs and heralds a fundamental and long-overdue change in the way European air traffic is managed.
One of the biggest names in professional audio equipment design and manufacture, Solid State Logic is world famous for its large-scale recording and mixing consoles. E&T spoke to SSL’s director of new products, Niall Feldman.
E&T talks to Richard Ranft, head of the British Library Sound Archive.
As standalone products, smart meters cannot give consumers the information that they crave to monitor their electricity use. But, as E&T discovers, when it is combined with a home display unit the consumers have the power to control their consumption.
Sound waves are the latest potential source for renewable energy as E&T discovers.
The new thing in software is copying the old. E&T filters out the bad from the good in synths and finds out how to remake the Fender sound.
Signal-processing and speech sciences are being jointly developed to improve the intelligibility of speech.
In a production-line world, what room is left for hand-wired audio amplifiers? Plenty, given guitarists’ fondness for ‘authenticity’, reports E&T.
E&T meets Robin Rimbaud, an internationally acclaimed technologist of music.
From Abbey Road to prehistoric zoology, E&T videos span the engineering and technology community.
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