Advantage Business Media

For Immediate Release

Product Design & Development's 12th Annual Engineering Awards Finalists -- Online Voting Now Open
11/27/2006 - Rockaway, NJ - Product Design & Development has
announced the 50 finalists for its 12th Annual Engineering Awards. Of
the 50 finalist, which can be viewed at www.pddnet.com and in the December
2006 issue of Product Design & Development, three will be awarded
with the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards.

Product Design & Development also announced that the top three
winners will be chosen via a special online ballot, which allows industry
professionals to select the top three winners. The ballot is available
at www.pddnet.com/awards.

"These engineering awards are unique to the engineering community because
winners of the top awards are chosen by their peers," states Len Vermillion,
editor in chief of Product Design and Development. "Who wins
the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards is completely up to our readers and
the industry members who access the online ballot to place their votes."

Voting for the engineering awards will take place until 5 PM PST on
January 31, 2007. Winners will be announced on the magazine's website
and featured in the April 2007 issue.
About Product Design & Development's Engineering Awards
Now in its 12th year, the Product Design & Development Engineering
Awards Program honors the people, products and technologies that have
shaped the engineering industry over the past year. The awards are meant
to honor engineers whose creativity and innovation help better the world
in which we live. Finalists include new products, components, systems,
materials and software packages designed by engineers and engineering
teams working in the United Sates. Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards winners
receive a crystal globe - a symbol of how engineering is changing our
world. You can find complete information on the engineering awards at
www.pddnet.com .

Last year's top winner was the LTI Locking Shoulder Joint, a prosthetic
shoulder joint, developed by Liberating Technologies (Holliston, MA)
and Reactive Metals (Angleton, TX).

About Product Design & Development
Product Design & Development is published by Advantage Business
Media (www.advantagebusinessmedia.com) and provides comprehensive coverage
of new technologies, systems, materials and components for design engineers
in the original-equipment manufacturing market.

About Advantage Business Media
Advantage Business Media (www.advantagebusinessmedia) is a leading, business-to-business media company with a diversified portfolio of highly focused business magazines, e-newsletters, specialized directories, vertical search databases, conferences, ancillary media vehicles, and associated web-based services. Built upon a foundation of long-standing legacy brands that date back to the former Gordon Publications, Cahners Publishing Company and Chilton Publishing Company titles, Advantage Business Media is dedicated to the markets that we are privileged to serve.

Advantage Business Media reaches more than 1.2 million business professionals involved in research & development, laboratory services, life sciences, software development and communications, and include engineers responsible for design, process, plant and facility management.

Contact:
Susanne Foulds
Advantage Business Media
(973) 920-7495

|
|