Browsing: Industry Opinion

In wireless communications, RF tests on transmitters and receivers help to minimize the safety risk arising from poor transmission conditions, says Thomas Brueggen, project manager of RF test systems for intelligent transport systems, Rohde & Schwarz

Good project management and the duplication of effort can be key to accomplishing goals and mitigating errors when working in large teams

Tighter scrutiny on auto emissions could increase Capex and limit credit quality for European car manufacturers in the development of new vehicles

Computer-aided engineering can break down the disconnect between design and engineering – endemic in most auto makers – that adds cost and time, limits creativity and makes compromise commonplace

Overcoming hydrogen fuel’s chicken-and-egg conundrum is a question of purity, according to Dr Arul Murugan, senior research scientist at NPL in the gas and particle metrology group

Nick Reed, academy director at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in the UK, outlines the next steps that are vital to guaranteeing safe truck platooning trials later this year

Ismail Benhayoun, Altair ProductDesign team manager, believes S&R simulation is becoming an ever more important and sought after field within NVH testing

Providing guidance to raw talent fresh out the classroom can shape the trajectory of an engineer’s career, so use your powers of influence wisely

A great number of things might be relevant. This is true in life, in law and in testing. But the rigor with which the ‘might be’ test is applied varies greatly

David Gil, a senior engineer at Critical Software, addresses the importance of independent software testing in ensuring the software of future vehicles is failsafe, and touches on the some of the lessons to be learned from industries like aerospace