# engineering design (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover engineering design. Page: Feed: --- ## [Will “E-Moto” Two-Wheelers Go Street Legal?](https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-bike-regulations) _2026-08-05 · Willie D. Jones · IEEE Spectrum_ Ariel Rider , an e-bike maker in Redmond, Wash., opened preorders this month for the MUDD 72V , a 105-kilometer-per-hour (65-mile-per-hour) 8,000-watt machine it calls a “power bike.” It looks like a fat-tire e-bike . It rides like a lightweight electric motorcycle . Legally, it’s neither. That gap isn’t a loophole Ariel Rider found. It’s a hole regulators haven’t filled yet. Two regulatory… ## [Identifying the Root Cause of Electronics Failures With Simulation Apps](https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronics-corrosion-multiphysics-simulation) _2026-08-03 · Joseph Carew · IEEE Spectrum_ This article is brought to you by COMSOL . In pursuit of improved range, greater reliability, and faster charging, electric vehicles are driving the demand for high-voltage electronics. Other applications driving this demand include wind farms, data centers, and server farms, to name a few. As the interest for high-voltage electronics increases, the risks associated with their sudden failure must… ## [How to Secure a Medical Device You Can’t Patch](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/how-to-secure-a-medical-device-you-cant-patch/) _2026-08-01 · Sponsored Content · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ By Joseph M. Saunders, Founder and CEO, RunSafe Security A medical device cleared today may stay in clinical service for 15 years or more, but the software inside it does not always age well. New vulnerabilities get discovered, open source components fall out of date, and attack techniques keep improving. Frontier AI tools now make… The post How to Secure a Medical Device You Can’t Patch appeared… ## [Quasar Medical buys Medres Nitinol Design and Development Center](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/quasar-medical-buys-medres-nitinol-design-and-development-center/) _2026-07-31 · Julia Rock-Torcivia · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ Quasar Medical said it has purchased the Medres Nitinol Design and Development Center near San Diego, California. Medres established the 10,000-square-foot Carlsbad site in 2024 and expanded it in 2025. It has dedicated nitinol operations, engineering talent and manufacturing capabilities. Quasar Medical is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that specializes in minimally… ## [J&J’s robotics R&D head discusses Ottava’s folding arms, soothing sounds and haptics capability](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/jnj-robotics-rd-ottava-folding-arms-soothing-sounds-and-haptics-capability/) _2026-07-31 · Jim Hammerand · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ Johnson & Johnson MedTech unveiled its Ottava surgical robotics system at the July 2026 Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS) annual meeting after winning FDA de novo authorization. “These teams have built a category-defining, soft-tissue surgical robot, and our regulatory pathway is a testament to that. There is no precedent here,” J&J MedTech Global Head of… The post J&J’s robotics R&D head discusses… ## [How BD wants to advance noninvasive continuous patient monitoring](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/bd-noninvasive-continuous-patient-monitoring-advances/) _2026-07-30 · Skyler Rivera · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ Tim Patz envisions a future where continuous monitoring follows the patient “from admission or the point of surgery, all the way to discharge.” Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD), where Patz is worldwide president of the Advanced Patient Monitoring business, is one step closer to that future after developing a platform enabling noninvasive continuous blood pressure… The post How BD wants to advance… ## [Researchers are reworking an ablation technique to develop a novel cancer treatment](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/umass-amherst-researchers-ablation-bladder-cancer-device/) _2026-07-29 · Skyler Rivera · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ A research team led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst is reworking a proven treatment to develop a new way to prevent bladder cancer recurrence without removing the organ or aggressive repeat treatments. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded the team a five-year grant of up to $3.45 million to develop the novel ablation… The post Researchers are reworking an ablation… ## [Why Mexico Built an $8,500 Electric Car](https://spectrum.ieee.org/mexico-olinia-car-electric-vehicle) _2026-07-29 · Vanessa Bates Ramirez · IEEE Spectrum_ The EV market in Mexico has exploded in the last three years, with the vast majority of cars sold there being manufactured in China— 90 percent in 2025 . However, Mexico is one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of cars and car parts, and policymakers want to capture a piece of the action. That’s why the Mexican government launched Olinia, a federally backed effort to develop a homegrown EV… ## [Zeus wins PFAS-free certification for PFX Flex catheter liners](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/zeus-pfas-free-pfx-flex-catheter-liners-certification/) _2026-07-28 · Jim Hammerand · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ Zeus PFX Flex Sub-Lite-Wall catheter liners are now the first medical device components to be certified by Intertek as free of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The news comes as medical device developers look to reduce their use of these “forever chemicals” in their products due to increasing scrutiny from regulators and customers. While the… The post Zeus wins PFAS-free certification… ## [We’ve got a medtech legend for the 2026 MDO Min-Vasive Medtech webinar series](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/2026-mdo-min-vasive-medtech-webinar-series/) _2026-07-28 · Jim Hammerand · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ The MDO Min-Vasive Medtech webinar series returns Aug. 18-20, 2026, and we’re kicking things off with medical device industry legend Manny Villafaña as our first guest. Registration is free and open now here for all three sessions, including two more speakers we’ll announce very soon. Villafaña founded several device developers that were acquired by major… The post We’ve got a medtech legend for… ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wIsDxOcSPeUH) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [The Engineer’s Guide to Luer connector selection](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/the-engineers-guide-to-luer-connector-selection/) _2026-07-28 · MDO Contributors Network · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ This article is part of Qosina’s “The Engineer’s Guide” recurring series covering practical component selection guidance for medical device design engineers. By Stephanie Alwais, Qosina A design engineer working on a wearable drug delivery device recently told me she had been speccing the same Luer lock configuration her team had used for five years, assuming… The post The Engineer’s Guide to Luer… ## [Hybrid Surge and EREVs Point to New Paths for Green Motoring](https://spectrum.ieee.org/extended-range-electric-vehicles) _2026-07-28 · Lawrence Ulrich · IEEE Spectrum_ Driving the 2027 Kia Seltos Hybrid through a Korean mountain landscape whose lushness evokes Hawaii, a light touch with my right foot helps me eke out a decidedly green 51 miles per gallon (4.6 liters per 100 kilometers). Back in the States, that kind of mileage will beat anything in the Seltos’s subcompact SUV class. Kia ’s timing seems uncanny. When the Seltos arrives in the U.S. in the fourth… ## [TE Connectivity adds 3D printing for catheter shafts](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/te-connectivity-adds-3d-printing-for-catheter-shafts/) _2026-07-28 · MDO Staff · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ NEWS RELEASE: TE Connectivity introduces 3D printing process to streamline catheter manufacturing GALWAY, Ireland — TE Connectivity, a world leader in connectors and sensors, has introduced a new automated 3D printing process to manufacture the catheter shafts it supplies to medical device manufacturers. It will replace a higher-cost, predominately manual assembly process commonly used across the…… ## [Researchers complete first-of-its-kind vagus nerve anatomical map](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/vagus-nerve-research-advance-neuromodulation-therapy-feinstein-institutes/) _2026-07-27 · Skyler Rivera · Medical Design and Outsourcing_ Researchers at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have completed a first-of-its-kind comprehensive human vagus nerve anatomical map, a development that could accelerate next-generation bioelectronic medicine and neuromodulation therapy innovation. “This dataset represents a major step forward in bioelectronic medicine, offering the most detailed anatomical reconstruction… ## [Two New Wheelchairs Reveal What “Smart” Really Means Today](https://spectrum.ieee.org/smart-wheelchair-robooter-strutt-ev1) _2026-07-11 · Jason Hahr · IEEE Spectrum_ The promise of the smart wheelchair—a powered mobility device capable of navigating spaces on its own—has never been realized for most of the people who might benefit from it most. This year, researchers and companies say they’re starting to close the gap. Two commercial products arriving on U.S. shores this year reveal how differently that claim can be made. In March, the Shanghai-based mobility… ## [Inside the Race to Electrify Semitrailers for Long-Haul Freight](https://spectrum.ieee.org/self-powered-trailers-freight-decarbonization) _2026-07-08 · Willie D. Jones · IEEE Spectrum_ A semitrailer that helps propel itself entered commercial road testing in late May, when a power-train kit developed by Nivalis Energy Europe , headquartered in Luxembourg with engineering operations in Germany, was fitted to a trailer supplied by the Amsterdam-based TIP Group . The self-powered trailer was handed over to the German transport operator Sommer for use in its working fleet. The… ## [General Motors Is Cutting Its Development Cycles in Half](https://spectrum.ieee.org/gm-ai-design) _2026-06-17 · Lawrence Ulrich · IEEE Spectrum_ For decades, automakers enjoyed a luxury that had nothing to do with the softest leather or the smoothest engines. Their luxury was time, with some popular cars and trucks enduring for a decade or longer before they received a full redesign. The clock is ticking faster now, thanks to China. BYD and other automakers there are speeding electric vehicles (EVs) and other models from drawing board to… ## [Smarter Charging Could Add Years to Your Battery’s Life](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ev-charging-strategy) _2026-06-17 · Willie D. Jones · IEEE Spectrum_ Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed an EV charging algorithm that, in simulation, extended the useful life of a lithium-ion battery cell by nearly 23 percent compared with the method used in virtually every electric vehicle on the road today. The catch: The work has been validated only on a single simulated cell, never on a real battery, and never… ## [Porsche Adapts Formula E Tech for Its Fastest Cayenne Yet](https://spectrum.ieee.org/porsche-cayenne-electric) _2026-06-08 · Lawrence Ulrich · IEEE Spectrum_ With an improbable 850 kilowatts (1,140 horsepower), and a digitized launch from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in a cerebellum-squeezing 2.5 seconds, the 2027 Porsche Cayenne Coupe Electric defies any traditional notion of an SUV. It’s the most powerful Porsche production car in history, thanks in part to DNA from Porsche’s championship Formula E racers. Automakers are notorious for using poetic… ## [Battery Makers Engineer Better Lead-Acid Replacement Shortcuts](https://spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-batteries-lead-acid-ev) _2026-05-30 · Willie D. Jones · IEEE Spectrum_ A golf cart seems like an unlikely place to find a new model for industrial electrification, but a technical shift playing out on golf courses is pointing toward something larger. Swappable lithium battery packs are now replacing lead-acid units in legacy electric golf carts without any modification to the vehicles themselves: no controller swap, no wiring changes, no new charger required. That… ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fBXLqMvHEsUU) _2026-05-30 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [The Death of Arc](https://butterwith.space/blog/the-death-of-arc) _2025-07-25 · Tom Butterwith_ Reflections on switching from the Arc browser back to Firefox: speed improvements, vertical tabs, and the trade-offs in features and workflow. ## [All Knowing AI](https://butterwith.space/blog/all-knowing-ai) _2025-07-24 · Tom Butterwith_ The hidden costs of AI tools: privacy concerns, trust issues, and the potential for data breaches in an era of hasty software development. ## [Becoming a Highly Effective Engineer](https://butterwith.space/blog/becoming-a-highly-effective-engineer) _2024-09-23 · Tom Butterwith_ Beyond coding: key traits of highly effective engineers, including finishing over starting, fostering team growth, and mastering communication.