Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Designing any product — from complex car parts to wrenches — is a balancing act with conflicting performance tradeoffs. Making something lightweight, for instance, may compromise its durability.

The Small-Body Dynamics Toolkit (SBDT) v5.0 is a collection of primitive-body-specific trajectory design and analysis tools written in MATLAB®. The SBDT gives the user the capabilities to propagate, analyze, and visualize spacecraft trajectories and the dynamical environment near realistic asteroid, comet,...

NASA Marshall has developed a system for generating iodine vapor from solid iodine for use as a propellant in a Hall or ion thruster propulsion system. Xenon has generally been the preferred propellant for these spacecraft ion propulsion systems but more recently, iodine-based...

With self-driving vehicles poised to take the road, how can today’s engineers prepare themselves to support an autonomous future?

A connectors expert reviews standards and certifications; assembly tooling; and physical space issues.

Just because it's computer simulation doesn't mean it's virtual prototyping. Our expert explains.

Simulation tools offer insight into the physical processes of heavy-duty engines. But what about natural wear and tear?

Digital technologies are bringing big data, automation, and mobile capabilities to processes like IT, HR, sales, and marketing, but what is the hold-up with product development? Has your product development process been modernized and “digitized?”