Transportation, Aerospace & Aeronautics
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How Autonomous Vehicle Technology Seeks to Onboard Disabled Passengers
Fully autonomous vehicle developers are seeking to ensure that disabled passengers aren’t left behind, and need IT professionals to take the wheel.
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SpaceX Dragon Resilience Makes History
The American space industry took another giant leap for mankind on 16 November, when the first NASA-certified private spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS).
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KISS? “Yes.” TMO? “No.”
Simplicity was the key to KISS system design. Yet it was not always adhered to as more complex systems arose in both civilian and military applications.
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A Salute to Captain William Eddy
When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, retired Navy Captain William Eddy volunteered to return to set up a program to train much-needed radio technicians.
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A Master Class in Ingenuity
On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, IEEE Members share their memories of creating the technologies used in space.
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The 737 MAX: An Accident Waiting to Happen?
The recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, in both of which all passengers and crew were lost, brought to the fore two issues: how best can today’s pilots interface with planes that can “fly themselves,” and how and by whom is a complex technology approved for public applications in which the…
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Transportation of Tomorrow
A 13 September Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing looked at emerging transportation technologies in the United States.
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U.S. Space Program Shifts Focus from Mars to the Moon
The National Space Council announced that the U.S. would be shifting its immediate priority objective for the space program to exploiting cislunar space (between the Earth and Moon), including a return to the Moon.
