Agilent BenchLink Data Logger Pro software for the Agilent 34970A and 34980A data acquisition/switch units enables advanced data-logging tasks with decision-making and limited checking, and requires no programming. It is ideal for engineers acquiring data for design verification and simple automated tests in electronics, automotive, aerospace/defense, medical, communications and computer industries.
Using the Agilent BenchLink Data […]

From the November 27, 2007 issue of NIST Tech Beat:
Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and tested a laser-based ranging system to assess the performance of automobile collision warning systems. Researchers in industry and at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will be able to use the NIST technology […]

Audio DesignLine is running a two-part article titled “Introduction to the Six Basic Audio Measurements”:

Part 1 discusses basic test setup and how to make level measurements.
Part 2 discusses the other five basic measurements, including:

frequency response,
THD+N,
phase,
crosstalk, and
signal-to-noise ratio

It doesn’t look like there’s any test content at this conference, but I have Slovak roots, so I thought I’d give this a plug…..Dan
25th-28th February 2008 * Radisson SAS Carlton Hotel, Bratislava.
Regarded in the industry as the ‘Detroit of the East’ for its high per-capita unit production, Slovakia has become one of the major automotive […]

Express Computer, billed as “India’s Only IT Business Weekly,” is running an article on the use of simulation in automotive design and testing in India. Titled “Simulation and auto R&D,” the article focuses on the IT aspects, but has some interesting information for engineers as well.

BizJournals.ComVolkswagen of America will donate $5.75 million to Stanford University to create the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL), on the Stanford University campus, and a new program for supporting automotive teaching and research. The VAIL and corresponding CarLab research and teaching program housed at VAIL, will help to accelerate automotive-related research on campus by increasing […]

Agilent will license certain automotive-network products from Elektrobit to create an integrated design and test toolset for software and test engineers. Agilent also introduced a strengthened suite of FlexRay test product offerings.
This partnership now extends Agilent’s FlexRay test offering with FlexRay protocol analysis products. EB and Agilent will share FlexRay technology and software components, […]

It occurs to me that it would be a good thing to be aware of what’s going on on the consumer side of things. That is, engineers should know how consumer organizations are testing their products and correlate those tests to the tests they run.
With that in mind, I’ve just come across two articles that […]

Engine Testing: Theory and Practice by A.J. Martyr and M.A. Plint has been updated. This new edition—the third—includes updated info on analysis and measurement, combustion processes, data acquisition, dynomometer deployment, exhaust emissions, oil and fuel testing, and system integration. It is available from the SAE for $99.95 ($79.96 for SAE members).

Defense News has recently posted an article on testing autonomous navigation systems. The article, “U.S. Army Tests TARDEC Autonomous Navigation System,” describes the tests run on a 17-kilometer test course featuring varied terrain with some gravel and off-road areas, 90-degree turns, blind turns, which are unexpected changes in direction, and some small hills.
The article notes, […]