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Jenny Regan Featured as Guest Speaker at UMD Fischell Festival

10.31.2011 by Alexis McKenzie

Recently Jenny was the featured speaker at the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering’s Fischell Festival, as part of their Whiting Turner Lecture Series.

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IDSA goes to RISD

05.18.2011 by Erik Askin

Every year, Industrial Designers come together for one weekend to attend the regional IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America) conference. This year, the North East chapter was held at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence Rhode Island, and Jeremy Savage and I made the trip.

Product Design, Staff

A little perspective

02.09.2011 by Chad Schneider

As certain as I am of death and taxes, I am certain that no matter what I believe to be true, somewhere, someone believes the opposite.

Business, Product Design, User Interface

Designing Parts for Injection Molding

12.14.2010 by Chad Schneider

As designers, we can improve our injection molded parts to make them perform better and require less expensive tools. Check out this design guide we came across to get you started.

Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Design

A Checklist Can Do What?

11.30.2010 by Lei Zong

I recently watched an interesting talk given by Atul Gawande, whose book The Checklist Manifesto has reached the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list this year, talking about some interesting benefits of using a checklist and how such a seemingly insignificant and low tech idea can do wonders in many disparate fields.

Engineering, Problem Solving, Product Design

When life gives you lemons, make a lemon battery!

11.10.2010 by Jessica Fisher

Inside most kitchens, a lemon leads a normal life, being integrated into a delicious dish or drink. But many science students have found in their classroom experiments that a lemon is no mere fruit.

Engineering, Product Design, Resources

Making it all wireless

10.19.2010 by Chad Schneider

As you’ve probably noticed, wireless products are extremely popular. So, what is the difference between one wireless technology and another? Here’s a really rough breakdown.

Engineering, Product Design

Design Snack: The Science of Color

09.28.2010 by Jeremy Savage

By now we have all hopefully heard of the two different color systems: CMYK and RGB. But why are there two? If you had to choose one to use, which would you pick? I could quickly tell you the easy answer, CMYK is used for print and RGB is used for displays, but there is actually a science as to why each system is necessary.

Product Design

The Taming of the Kernel or, If Shakespeare Needed to Cross-Compile Linux

09.23.2010 by Chris Fleck

Sing, o muse, of man and the machine

the trial and err of misguided questing

to bring the works of Linux to new homes.

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Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS)

09.14.2010 by Dave Hershey

What is an embedded Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and how can you best utilize it for your next development project?