The Guardian has showcased the career of Audi Sport race engineer Leena Gade (the Gade surname is no coincidence: Leena is Teena's sister), and Richard Hammond's recent TV series Engineering Connections, and Engineering Giants, have certainly made engineering concepts more accessible.
I wouldn't mind seeing a genealogical tree for Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections, in which the little meerkatty one off Top Gear unveils the unexpected continuity between current engineering marvels and ancient techniques.
Whereas Burke was all about unexpected consequences, though Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections is more generalised boy's fun, often involving practical experiments in which something is broken or blown up.
Especially with hydrocarbon and hydrocarbon-derived fuels, there are interesting scientific and engineering connections, and analogies with combustion science and technology.
Despite the importance of Poisson's ratio in materials science and engineering, its connection to molecular dynamics and relaxation processes in glass-forming systems remains unclear.
Canadian-based Dynetek Industries has received a purchase order worth approximately C$7 million (US$6m) in sales with Magna Steyr in Austria for the development, certification and supply of 700 bar (10 000 psi) compressed hydrogen fuel storage systems, including related engineering, in connection with DaimlerChrysler's fuel cell program.
Shortest path algorithms such as SPF and CSPF are widely used in online traffic engineering where connections need to be setup one at a time as connection requests arrive sequentially.
Now, though, new engineering, faster connections and agreements on standards have solved many of those problems.
In many engineering applications, the connection between a combustion engine and the load is often done using elastomeric materials.
