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You’ll see some great examples of the how engineering and medical professionals are coming together to solve real problems with technology in the articles collected for this special digital issue. We hope they inspire you to expand your horizons.

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Design engineers developing consumer electronics were some of the first to arrive at the intersection of hardware, electronics, software and aesthetics. That intersection has since become jammed with engineers from various disciplines trying to navigate their way through an ever-changing...

Small ported pressure sensor from Honeywell offers minimal footprint on a printed circuit board and supports wide pressure range.

The SEK-Environmental Sensing from Sensirion allows engineers to evaluate sensors and develop sensor applications more quickly and easily.

The convergence of smart microphones, new digital signal processing technology, voice recognition and natural language processing has opened the door for voice interfaces.

The rise of energy harvesting is driven by advances that make the technology more practical and desirable for mobile and IoT applications.

Carnegie Mellon is developing novel methods to create next-generation manufacturing processes for sensors, antennas and energy harvesting devices.

The kit provides an end-to-end tool to enable a Sub-1 GHz sensor network with an internet of things (IoT) gateway and cloud connectivity.

Designing machines that can perform edge analytics provides more value to the IoT.

Reader survey responses provide an engineering technology outlook for 2018 and beyond.

Snap features Gentex’s biometrics, automation and dimmable glass technologies.

The new software from Micro-Measurements offers simultaneous recording and analysis of up to 48 channels and 50,000 samples per second with fast, easy setup and minimal-to-no downtime.

Possibly the greatest challenge for autonomous vehicles is that driverless vehicles must have sensing and control systems that exceed the capabilities of human drivers.

Mass-producing complex printed sensing systems that include processing and communications modules requires designs that incorporate printed and advanced CMOS-based components. Until recently, no one has developed manufacturing processes that can produce such systems.