Greatest Engineering Achievements Site

A good synopsis of engineering events, inventions, achievements in the 20th century. The links provide a quick overview, but have timeline info and related info links. By the National Academy of Engineering.
http://www.greatachievements.org/

LABS

We’re blowing off the dust and creating some new categories, one of them being Labs as we roll out new development and experiments on the site. Phase 2 is close to completion that includes improved navigation, new engineering resources, and better article searching. Our new RSS page includes a beta version of the Newsgator ‘Buzzbox” for easy feed sharing and lo - a way to get RSS to your inbox. Seems to defeat the purpose of RSS, but email still rules delivery: for now. And the subscriber base has increased significantly since adding the service: Note to suppliers, RSS feeds into publishers is key, gives us instant access to your PR for faster posting. Send me your feed.

New Editor And Promotion At Design World Magazine

March 15, 2007 Fast Growing Print and Online Engineering Publication Fuels Personnel Changes

SANTA BARBARA, Calif – WTWH Media, LLC today announced the appointment of Kathryn Tomiello as Staff Editor. Kathryn will be responsible for generating online news, developing case studies for design for industry editorial columns and covering product world round ups.

Kathryn graduated magna cum laude from John Carroll University in 2002 with a B.A. in English.  At Carroll, she was a research assistant, a consultant in the writing center, and published a research paper in the John Carroll Academic Journal.

At Medical Design News (Penton Media, Inc.) in 2002, Kathryn wrote technical articles, product descriptions, and feature stories. She established and maintained correspondence with outside sources, worked with the graphic artists on layouts and designs, and edited numerous parts of the magazine before it went to press.

Additionally Design World announced the promotion of Marshall Matheson to vice president of new media.  In Marshall’s new role he will continue to maintain daily web management responsibilities, 3D services relationships and development of advertising marketing vehicles via web, e-newsletters, video, and RSS.  His additional responsibilities include integrating new Internet asset acquisitions and resources into the Design World Online platform.

According to Co-Founder, Scott McCafferty, “As the demand grows for our online offerings, it was key to create the VP role for efficient execution. Marshall has demonstrated key competencies implementing and exploring new technologies to build an extremely valuable backend system for Design World Online.”