SBCC MESA Engineering Students Attend Leadership ConferenceNoozhawkFour hand-picked engineering and computer science students from Santa Barbara City College attended the invitation-only MESA Student Leadership Conference in Los Angeles recently. This year …

Machine Design11 Railway Engineering MarvelsMachine DesignMost American steam locomotives that came later took their engineering cues from these. The image shows #610, the sole surviving example. It had slightly higher boiler pressure, 255 psig rather than …

ReutersCrude Oil: Shale-Zilla Knocking On The DoorSeeking AlphaWhile Hurricane Harvey is the primary culprit, a bigger and lasting factor is the growth in U.S. shale volumes. The futures appear to reflect an expectation of a significant and continued growt …

The Guardian'The last place on Earth': how Sumatra's rainforest is being cleared for palm oilThe GuardianA palm oil company is continuing to clear forest in a fast-diminishing elephant habitat in Indonesia's Leuser ecosystem despite being t …

MarketWatchUS oil prices at 3-week high, gasoline drops as Harvey recovery commencesMarketWatchU.S. oil prices saw on their highest finish in three weeks on Tuesday, while gasoline prices dropped by nearly 3% as Gulf Coast refineries powered back up after …

ForbesOil Markets Rebound After Hurricane HarveyOilPrice.comOman saw its oil production hit a record high last year at over 1 million barrels per day. • Oman is the seventh largest Middle Eastern oil producer and the largest non-OPEC producer in the region …

Financial TimesNorth Sea oil and gas producers say they have left 'death spiral'Financial TimesNorth Sea oil and gas producers have pulled out of the “death spiral” that had threatened to send the basin into precipitous decline, according to indust …

MarketWatchOil prices rally, gasoline slumps as Gulf Coast refineries come back after HarveyMarketWatchGasoline prices turned sharply lower and crude oil rallied Tuesday, as Gulf Coast refineries powered back up after the disruptions caused by Hurricane Ha …

The GuardianShould vegans eat palm oil?The Guardian“There's an ongoing debate in the vegan community, with people saying they're not going to buy products from animals but then they switch to products that include palm oil, which is a paradox [beca …

Haas Foundation Awards Scholarships to DP Engineering Academy GradsNoozhawk“I spent my time memorizing how every material available to us reacted to different machining methods, which helped me decide on pursuing mechanical engineering and my plan to apply …