Prototype device testing shows that GE's RF MEMS switch can help enable increased data transfer speeds, enhanced signal quality, longer battery life, and the advanced RF designs required of LTE-Advanced devices.
Videos demonstrating GE's MEMS technology available at: http://youtu.be/DXRsHjxHWEE and http://youtu.be/_RFBheVJbMs
Jet engines come in all shapes and sizes. Fighter jets use sleek and narrow supersonic engines called low-bypass turbofans to generate enormous thrust. But they also guzzle plenty of gas. Passenger planes use their bigger and more efficient cousins, called high-bypass turbofans. But they are not nearly as fast.
A jet engine bracket designed by M Arie Kurniawan, an engineer from Salatiga in Central Java, Indonesia, came in first place in a global 3D printing challenge held by GE and the open engineering community GrabCAD. Kurniawan will receive $7,000 in prize money. GE and GrabCAD also selected seven other design winners who will divide the balance of the $20,000 prize pool.
Winning entry to be mass-produced as a Christmas ornament and given away as part of GE's celebration of the first-ever "3D Printing Day", December 3.
NISKAYUNA, NY, December 2, 2013 -- GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced that a winner has been chosen in its Santa Sleigh 3D printing design contest/GRABCAD challenge, a first-time event bringing together the maker community for some holiday fun in advance of tomorrow's inaugural 3D Printing Day.
Day in and day out, engineers GE’s Peebles Test Operation subject jet engines to the FAA equivalent of a Tough Mudder race. From the giant GEnx to the tiny HondaJet, the engines must endure hurricane-force winds, bird strikes, heavy rain, hail, ice blasts and other extreme hardships to be certified for flight by aviation regulators. Like any endurance athlete, they consume a lot of calories to power through the course; as much as 200,000 bathtubs of jet fuel annually, or 10 million gallons.
