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The Weekend Edition

How Would Engineers Build The Golden Gate Bridge Today?

Maria Martinez De Lahidalga De Lorenzo
Hota Gangarao
June 04, 2017

It's been 80 years since the Golden Gate Bridge opened to San Francisco traffic. While technology has advanced, the beloved landmark's upkeep costs remain high – is there a better way to span this strait? Engineers from West Virginia University give their take on potential materials and tech.

 

 

Ever since the Golden Gate Bridge opened to traffic on May 27, 1937, it’s been an iconic symbol on the American landscape.
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Backtracking to GE’s first-ever Australian project

April 13, 2017
In 1896, just four years after GE was incorporated as The General Electric Company, it sent one of its most experienced electrical engineers, 45-year-old Joseph Stillman Badger, from its Schenectady rail facility in the US, to oversee the electrification of the Australian city of Brisbane’s horse-drawn tram network.
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The graduates

May 05, 2016
Papua New Guinea is an important country for GE, which opened its Port Moresby office in July 2014 in order to play a bigger role in the development of the PNG economy, and to help bring global energy, water treatment and healthcare to its population.
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Can you make pigs fly? New science challenge seeks to disprove impossible idioms

April 20, 2016
Thomas Edison cofounded GE 124 years ago and the company celebrated his birthday earlier this year by proving that — scientifically speaking — the “impossible” was possible. Its engineers took a literary tack and disproved three popular English idioms describing impossible things with science — they brought a snowball back from hell, caught lightning in a bottle and made a wall talk.
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Hungry lions loose in the GE Store

April 05, 2016
  • GE Turbomachinery Solutions workshop, responsible for repair and maintenance of oil and gas equipment, is an essential part of GE’s $100 million Oil & Gas facility in Western Australia.

  • The workshop is modelled after best-practice workflows fine tuned in GE Aviation support facilities.

  • A Predix-based software program developed in Australia for use by GE workshops globally manages priorities to make on-time or even earlier customer deliveries.

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Hackathon heaven—driving efficiencies on an industrial scale

November 06, 2015
Enter the new digital-industrial hothouse, where the blast-furnace of ideas and the phenomenal pace of collaborative coding will blow your mind as it produces viable software products faster than you can say digital-industrial revolution.
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Engineering: “The best ever career”

October 20, 2015
Today she’s wearing an elegantly tailored, vividly coloured suit, but you can easily imagine Mary Hackett as a teenager, riding her bicycle into wind and stinging rain along winding Irish roads, to get to the home of her maths tutor. The girl wasn’t pedalling like a demon two or three times a week because she’d been told she had to succeed in maths, but because she wanted to get into engineering.
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Cog-nition! 4 Engineering hotspots

August 03, 2015
From August 3 to 9 (and beyond in some states), Engineers Australia (EA), the peak-performance body setting standards and supporting engineers around the country, invites you behind the scenes and front and centre of what it means to be an engineer. Visit engineering marvels such as the Adelaide Oval, show off your knowledge at a young-engineers trivia night, tour the traffic control room of Sydney’s Westlink M7, attend a 
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Why we need more engineers in our boardrooms—and better STEM teaching in our schools

March 05, 2015
Regional Director for GE Oil & Gas, Mary Hackett has been in the job for only four months, but already wants GE employees out talking to school children about the thrill of studying science, technology, engineering and maths—STEM subjects that will feed their minds and drive the future. Mary has worked as a design engineer on North Sea oil and gas facilities and as a project manager in the offshore sector; she’s overseen technical integrity and engineering standards and has set industry pathways as a company vice president.
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Bruce Katz and Mark Muro: What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced Industries

Bruce Katz Brookings Institution
Mark Muro Brookings
December 22, 2014
Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely to take incremental but not transformative steps on critical economic issues. In other words, less gridlock but little impact.
 
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