On a balmy September evening in 1998, Swissair flight 111 was in big trouble. A fire in the cockpit ceiling had at first blinded the pilots with smoke, leaving them to rely on instruments to divert ...

Drag soldering works exactly as its name implies, by dragging a bead of solder across fine-pitch pins you can quickly solder an entire row. The method relies on clean joints, so liquid solder flux is ...

Daniel Rau, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, works with a 3D printer in the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Lab. An interdisciplinary team of ...

As many as one in four commercial airliners, primarily older models, are outfitted with electrical-wire insulation deemed unreliable and banned by the Department of Defense two decades ago. Beginning ...

Kapton-insulated wiring offers an innovative solution for electrical systems required to operate under extreme temperatures or with low outgassing thresholds. Based on a proprietary space-age polymer ...

In thin film a-Si modules and CIGS applications, the mechanical properties and dimensional stability of these substrates at elevated deposition temperatures are critical to producing cells with ...

Using tape and a bit of epoxy-laced gauze, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have sealed a hole that had been causing a slow air leak from the station. NASA said that the station's ...