The Brooklyn Museum’s new café, designed by the Office of Tangible Space, is an example of functional design that puts community first—without sacrificing aesthetics in the process. The Brooklyn ...

When you have used a particular tool, item, or object for one sole purpose again and again, your brain can sometimes associate it with only that use. This concept is called functional fixedness.

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Intelligent robotic systems are bringing great gains in productivity to the factory floor. However, they also present collision hazards that could ...

During the design process, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically used to assess how equipment and machinery might fail. Recent functional safety design legislation in the EU has ...

Today's SoCs include hundreds of complex IP blocks with millions of transistors each. CSRs are essential for managing these IPs, with some systems having up to a million CSRs. IP-XACT standards help ...

In a review led by Prof. Zhijie Chen's group from Department of Chemistry at Zhejiang University, an overview of recent progress in the development of Zr-MOFs is provided. The article titled "Design, ...

Functional obsolescence reduces property desirability due to outdated, hard-to-alter features. It includes curable issues (fixable by renovation) and incurable ones (costly or impossible to fix).