February 2009 Feature Articles

Dream Jobs 09: Special Report

Building a solar-powered plane, creating stunning effects for Bollywood films, designing search-and-rescue robots—it's not just a job, it's engineering

Marco Migliari: Studio Virtuoso

At Real World Studios in the British countryside, he masters the mix

Shannon Bruzelius: Toy Story

How a B student landed an A+ job in the toy industry

Kenyon Kluge: Zero to 60

An electrical engineer with a passion for motorcycles finds a job designing all-electric dirt bikes

Arieta Gonelevu: Bright Lights, Little Islands

She brings electricity to remote islands in the South Pacific

Tero Ojanperä: Dial M for Music

From CTO to Chief Tunes Officer

Slideshow: The $71.2 Million Arm

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spending at least US $71.2 million to reinvent prosthetic arms from the ground up.

Erlendur Thorsteinsson: Master of the Universe

This computer scientist breathes life into the many worlds of the sci-fi game Eve Online

Keya Banerjee: Magical Realism

This specialist in reality-based movie effects is happiest when you don't notice her work

Kunio Koike: Real Time

This Seiko engineer makes every second count

Robin Murphy: Roboticist to the Rescue

Her intelligent robots help search for victims of disaster

Philippe Lauper: Chase the Sun

He and his team are building a plane that will circle the globe on sunlight alone

Stewart Craine: Dream Job in Progress

Tech Titans Building Boom

Google, Microsoft, and other Internet giants race to build the mega data centers that will power cloud computing

Antennas for the New Airwaves

This month's planned shutdown of analog broadcast TV in the United States will bring antenna technology back into the spotlight

Online Contents February 2009

This Car Runs on Code

It takes dozens of microprocessors running 100 million lines of code to get a premium car out of the driveway, and this software is only going to get more complex