Most modern cars come with an engine immobilizer. Here is what that means and how much they cost if your car isn't equipped ...

Power the future of mobility, defense, and energy with Michigan Tech’s graduate on-campus and online certificate in Internal Combustion Engine Systems. Designed for students and professionals, this ...

Positive Crankcase Ventilation—three dirty words, but do they really need to be perceived that way? In general, the PCV system has two main functions: vapor relief and liquid separation. PCV systems ...

Global warming? While the tree- huggers clamor over ex-Vice President Gore's global temperature scare, we'll lay odds that when summer arrives, car crafters will be more concerned about engine warming ...

CAN-bus. We've all heard the term before, but just what does it really mean? Today's new vehicles are engineered using a multiplexed wiring system known as CAN-bus. The on-board communications ...

A buzzword at the 2023 International Boat Builders Expo (IBEX) was “telematics.” Marine telematics refers to app-based systems that enable remote boat monitoring, including boat locations, speed, ...

It's still a jet engine that burns fuel but that's in a dedicated gas turbine that operates solely as a turbogenerator to create electricity at subsonic speeds. Since that's all it does, its ...

When you cut to the basic principles of heavy-duty trucks it comes down to return on investment: maximum mpg, meeting emissions requirements and the truck running at optimum conditions and ...

Menlo Park is known as the birthplace of the electric lightbulb. Bell Laboratories is where transistors were invented. Los Alamos produced the atomic bomb. Sturman Industries, located at the base of ...

Power Up Your IC Engine Systems Knowledge at Michigan Tech. From heavy-duty trucks and agricultural machinery to shipping fleets, aviation, and power generation, internal combustion engines STILL ...