I wrote two articles last week. One was mostly ignored and the other broke the internet. So of course I’m most interested in updating the one that got ignored. I’ve…
Category: engineering
In a time when other engineering technology developers have seemingly lost interest in CAD, Solid Edge is still developing stuff for people like us. There are some really significant developments…
Life these days is becoming less and less flexible. So often we hear things like “no compromise”, “don’t settle”, “zero tolerance”, “never stop” and other slogans that I know are…
In the mid-’90s, I lived in California, around the Redwood City/Los Gatos area. My first job after graduating from college was at a company called Avocet, which the bicycle riding…
Immediately after graduating with my Mechanical Engineering degree, I took the EIT exam (Engineer in Training). This is the first step to getting your Professional Engineer license. I passed the…
Sustainability is not just a hippie idea, or a leftist communist plot. It’s actually something we as engineers must embrace. If we are going to live in space or populate…
Yes, of course, design engineers should understand manufacturing processes. But the real question is how much of the process should they understand? If a little bit of knowledge is a…
According to Dictionary.com, engineering is defined in part as: “to arrange, manage, or carry through by skillful or artful contrivance”. John Devitry is a former member of the Australian rock…