by David Sokol – November 26, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com

Responsible vehicular design is taken to task at the Art Center College of Design.

In March 2005, Stewart Reed had a homecoming to southern California. The 1969 transportation-design graduate of Art Center College of Design returned to Pasadena to take on the chairmanship of the department. Although Reed had collaborated with his alma mater in the interim—he taught a class while heading Toyota’s advanced design studio in nearby Newport Beach, and served as an advisory board member—Reed’s work as a full-time educator is only just starting.

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January 13, 2007 via FuelEconomy.Gov

Greenhouse gas emissions expressed in CO2 equivalents. Estimates include the full fuel cycle and exclude vehicle manufacture. (U.S. Department of Energy, GREET Model, Argonne National Laboratory)

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January 6, 2007 via Bindt.Org

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A look back at the origins of NDT and BINDT

Case histories going back as far as World War I show that the science of non-destructive testing was understood and practised in the UK that long ago, especially in the field of military aviation. But it was not until 1954 that there emerged a voluntary association devoting itself exclusively to NDT. Before that time the Institute of Physics had a very active industrial radiology group, under whose auspices much early discussion, experimentation and development of NDT took place. Some of the major engineering institutions also showed an interest in NDT.

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