Engineering


Pros Cons of the Independent Contractor's Life

An independent contractor--IC--is a person who contracts to perform services for others without having the legal status of an employee. Most people who qu...  Read story

Making Faster Chips--For Home Use Only

New business creates faster chip technology for sale only in American markets.  Read story

Gallium Valley

The quest for faster computers has opened the door to a potentially huge new market in the crowded semiconductor field. Gallium arsenide has been touted f...  Read story

The Company Money Almost Killed

Profile of one CEO and his management of a computer chip company on the brink of bankruptcy.  Read story

Mutual Benefits

Analog Device's daring strategy for coping with change has led to unique relationships with small companies around the country.  Read story

The Immigrant

Abe Adewale | Abna Engineering | St. Louis Juju is a word for a charm or an amulet in West Africa (and the supernatural power within). The Gate...  Read story

Intimate Relations

Global pressures are forcing even the fiercest competitors to create strategic alliances.  Read story

The Futurists

From solar panels to clean coal, betting big on the future of energy.  Read story

High Concept: I'll Take Manhattan

A new way to build computer memory chips takes its inspiration from the Manhattan skyline: when space is at a premium, build up rather than out.  Read story

Go Down, Robot

A look at a new construction technology, microtunneling, and how one company has taken the lead in its use.  Read story

The Third Wave

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read story

The Age Of Alliances

The new semiconductor companies are getting their funding from a powerful combination of hungry venture capitalists, aggressive bankers, and -- suprisingly e...  Read story

The Innovation 50

A listing of the most inventive small companies in entrepreneurial America.  Read story

The Connected Car

The introduction of the Chevy Volt and other electric vehicles will require a vast ecosystem of entrepreneurial businesses.  Read story

On Second Thought

We throw away all sorts of things -- automobiles, washing machines, air conditioners. The apostles of remanufacturing believe we can pick up the pieces and p...  Read story

Blue is the New Green

Forget for a moment about carbon emissions. The world is facing a more immediate crisis -- it is running out of clean water. The prospect of widespread short...  Read story

Three Small Business Owners Who Love Obama's Stimulus

Some Inc. 500|5000 CEOs are in the right industries to benefit from the President's emergency funds.  Read story

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: February March 1983

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. O-TC sym. Company...  Read story

All Summary, No Substance

The executive summary below is actually an altered and disguised version of a real executive summary. But it remains as badly done in this state as it was...  Read story

Quest For Quality

As a quality practitioner for most of my working life, I could come to only one conclusion about Spectrum's capacitor soldering problem, which it lived wi...  Read story

Lights, Cameras In The Boardroom

Lunch hour is movie time at Charles River Associates, a Boston consulting firm where screenings take place every two or three months. Movies on all sorts...  Read story

Made In Usa

THE CASE FOR MANUFACTURING IN AMERICA  Read story

How I Did It: Noreen King, CEO, Evolve Manufacturing Technologies

As told to Amy Gunderson Industry: Manufacturing 2006 Inc. 500 Ranking: Read story

Chips Ahoy;

For about two years there, you would have had more luck going public as a maker of chocolate chips than as a maker of silicon chips. But last May, two se...  Read story

1987 The Inc. 100;

WE'RE AWAITING CONFIRMATION FROM THE observatory at Mount Palomar that all the planets and moons did indeed orbit around Wall Street last year. Certainly...  Read story

Illuminating News

A short article that explains how some lighting fixtures may cause computer problems.  Read story

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: June 1982

INC. MARKET INDEX vs. POPULAR AVERAGES S&P NASDAQ DJI 400 ASE Ind'ls INC. % change -2 -3 -5 -4 -5 June-J...  Read story

Class Of '82: Who's Who Among The Acquired

1982 Rank Company Location Acquirer 413. Basic Concept Paterson, NJ Lightolier, subs. Bairnco <...  Read story

Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley

As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over.  Read story

Pipe Covering

Engineer has created a new form-fitting pipe insulation foam called FoamPak.  Read story

A Globetrotting Guide to Managing People

Insight into opening foreign offices. A sample of five countries' standards in the workplace.  Read story

Stand by Me

Husband and wife create a stand-up alternative to the wheelchair, called the Beyond a Chair.  Read story

Ventured Guesses

From 1981 to 1984, venture capitalists sunk some $3.7 billion into computer-related businesses. With the go-go days in computers now seemingly gone-gone,...  Read story

A Little Help From Your Friends

You probably know more potential investors than you realize. The trick is to put together a deal they'll find attractive  Read story

Reengineering the Small Factory

In the world of new manufacturing technologies, you have to know what you're getting into before you upgrade.  Read story

Dear Jon,

Three years after founding Northwest Instrument Systems, Jon Birck became a cliche -- one more entrepreneur squeezed out of his fast-growing company.  Read story

Upstart of the Year

When Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR) announced in May 2006 that it would shut down its Maytag division in Newton, Iowa, it offered transfers to a select group of emp...  Read story

Mrs. Drucker Starts a Business

The story of how an 80-plus year old woman, the wife of a management guru, started the first company of her life.  Read story

Multitasking

Multitasking refers to the ability of an individual or machine to perform more than one task at the same time. In the field of human resources, multitaski...  Read story

Recessionade

Don't complain to Inc. 500 CEOs that the economy may be hitting the skids. Where others see danger lurking, this bunch sees opportunity.  Read story

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