ASCE's eight specialty Institutes help members meet the needs of all civil engineering specialties and the diverse people who practice them. To ensure members have access to the most knowledge in their technical area, all ASCE members receive free membership in one Institute. Each Institute focuses on the technical, educational, scientific, and professional aspects of your industry. (read more)

Executives, managers, and practitioners worldwide come to Professional Institute (PI) short courses at MIT to gain crucial knowledge and return with applicable skills. PI students learn from renowned MIT faculty who are world leaders in their fields from applied nanotechnology to optics to transportation systems. (read more)

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI), a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announces the availability of its Nanotechnology Measurement Handbook, a 124-page guide to electrical measurements for nanoscience applications. (read more)

Contrary to the dreams, the current reality of nanotechnology is that heavy lifting is required. Before you can build small, you have to think big enough to move the equipment that will eventually build nanoscale machines. (read more)

HWI has just completed a 5,000sq/ft Nanotechnology facility. (read more)

PICODENTOR® HM500: Measuring the world of atoms in an industrial style Cost-effective micro hardness measuring instrument enables economic quality testing in industrial nanotechnology (read more)

The Nova family of DualBeam™ (FIB/SEM) systems are complete nanotechnology labs in a single tool. The Nova™ 200 NanoLab and the Nova™ 600 NanoLab are commonly used in nanostructure assembly, nanoscale prototyping, machining, characterization, and analysis of structures below 100nm. (read more)

It's called the Swift Mission and its ambitious goal is to unlock the secrets of gamma-ray bursts in space, thus far a highly elusive subject. Swift is a part of NASA Midex, an international collaboration of nine NASA specialists, laboratories, universities and institutes that have teamed to produce and launch a specialized satellite in 2003 with the express purpose of probing gamma-ray bursts. (read more)

PicoCube™ XY and XYZ piezo stage scanning systems are ultra-high-performance, closed-loop piezoelectric scanning systems. Designed for AFM, SPM and nanomanipulation applications, they combine an extremely low-inertia (10 kHz resonant frequency!), high-speed piezo scanner with non-contact, direct-measuring, parallel-metrology capacitive feedback capable of 25 picometers resolution. (read more)

The Model 2182A brings a powerful new set of capabilities to researchers when used in conjunction with Keithley's recently introduced models 6220 DC current source and 6221 AC/DC current source; users now are able to make resistance measurements, pulsed I-V measurements, and differential conductance measurements faster and more accurately than previously possible... (read more)