Ceramic Tech Today

GE Aviation on hiring spree, but they’re not alone

By Eileen De Guire / December 17, 2013

  GE Aviation posted eleven positions on the ACerS Career Center website this fall, and based on LinkedIn feeds I’ve been getting, they are still actively recruiting. Be sure to…

Read More

Like electrodes for chocolate? Taste simulator technology unwrapped

By Eileen De Guire / December 17, 2013

    National University of Singapore researchers unveiled a taste simulation device at ACM Multimedia conference in Barcelona, Spain, in November. (Credit: You Tube.) According to a factbook (pdf) from the United…

Read More

Trends in innovation and regulation of ceramics for biomedical applications

By Eileen De Guire / December 17, 2013

  A tenacious wound healed with Mo-Sci’s DermaFuse bioglass. Credit: Mo-Sci. Most people think of “health care professionals” as their physicians, nurses, therapists, and other health care staff. However, many…

Read More

What is a ceramic engineer?

By Eileen De Guire / December 10, 2013

What makes someone a ceramic materials engineer or scientist? The Society was founded 115 years ago to meet the professional needs of those who worked on ceramic and glass materials, a mission that is still valid.

Read More

Video: Atoms make ‘the world’s smallest stop-motion film’

By Jim Destefani / December 10, 2013

Last spring, scientists at IBM’s Research Laboratories in San Jose, Calif., used a scanning tunneling microscope to create what Guinness World Records has certified as “the world’s smallest stop-motion film.”

Read More

Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Jim Destefani / December 10, 2013

Other materials stories that may be of interest.

Read More

Ping! Mary Barra named GM’s CEO-designate

By Eileen De Guire / December 10, 2013

Mary Barra will take over as CEO of General Motors in January. An electrical engineer, she began her career as a co-op student at GM.

Read More

NIST team wins 80M hours of supercomputer time for concrete rheometer study

By Eileen De Guire / December 6, 2013

A NIST team has been awarded 40 million hours of computer time per year for two years to support the study of the design of rheometers for large-particle dense suspensions such as concrete.

Read More

Start 2014 strong at ICACC—science and tech, expo, special forums, short course, more!

By Eileen De Guire / December 6, 2013

An action-packed 38th ICACC January 26–31 will have plenary and award speakers, 13 technical symposia, four focus sessions, a Global Young Investigators Forum, 2nd Pacific Rim Engineering Ceramics Summit, Expo, and a short course on mechanical properties.

Read More

Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Jim Destefani / December 6, 2013

Ceramics and glass business news of the week.

Read More