Technology: Algal Film May Advance Battery Technology

Cladophora algae is a pest unless you want to make a better battery.  Typically gunking up the Baltic Sea this organisms nanostructure has been found to increase charge density significantly for cellulose-polymer batteries.  At 25 and 33 mAh /gm this technology appears to be within striking distance of NiCD and NiMH. Unfortunately it appears [...]

Engineers Trounce Other Degrees and Make Up Largest Number of S&P 500 CEO’s

Here are some interesting statistics about the educational make up of the S&P 500 CEO’s in 2008. It turns out that 22% of the 500 CEO’s received an engineering degree. Even more interesting is the observation that 47% of the CEO’s had received degrees which rely heavily on mathematics – Engineering, Economics, and [...]

Bacteriophages: The Biological Antibiotic

Sometimes it seems that the future has always been with us. The new genomic revolution in medical science that we are experiencing is and will give scientists and engineers unparalleled control of biological organisms. One organism which may help revolutionize medicine is the bacteriophage. Basically a bacteria killing machine it has been researched [...]

New Source of X-Ray Could Lead to New Products

Here is one of those scientific insights that can lead to new medical or even commercial inventions. Carlos Camara, a physicist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA, reports ripping a common “scotch” tape from the roll in a 10e-3 Torr vacuum can produce 15 kev X-rays. In a personal communication [...]

Starting BMET Salary from 2008 Salary Survey

Salaries for professionals with BMET background or education ( A.S., B.S. or DoD Military BMET ) can range widely from $36,000 to $102,000 per year.  The reason for the wide disparity is a result of the wide range of positions a BMET can fill from BMET I to Director of the Biomedical Engineering Department ( [...]