Ms. Smith, 28, is a mechanical engineer who has helped design the new generation of hand-held computers.

Ford designed the fourth generation with much more conservative styling in hopes of increasing the car's appeal.

The students are now designing and building the third generation of fuel cell powered racers.

They are currently designing the next generation, which will have a top speed of 217 m.p.h. while getting 40 miles to the gallon or better.

It will bring materials and instruments with itself which would be useful in medicine, computers and designing the next generation of solar panels.

He designed the second generation of the Newton, the MessagePad110, taking him to Taipei for the first time.

"Maybe the military should think about that when they design the next generation of submarines and tanks," Coffey said.

While we marvel over the latest smartphones, video game consoles and computers, engineers are hard at work designing the next generation of computing devices.

For this reason, we want a strong partnership pact in both designing, drafting and implementing the new generation of programmes.

Batteries remain the worst obstacle to progress in designing the next generation of portable computer or electric car.