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HSA’s and medical devices

09.07.2010 by Chad Schneider

Has the Health Savings Account affected consumer’s spending habits? Is that affecting the design specification for consumer medical devices?

Business, Engineering, Product Design

Notice to Staff: You rock! – The Mgmt

08.03.2010 by Chad Schneider

As a service company, our staff is our most important asset. Without them, we’d just have a bunch of lonely computers sitting around hoping to one day become self-aware. As such, we work hard to find great people, and we’ve found some of the greatest.

Engineering, Problem Solving, Product Design, Staff

Frank is WAY out of the office

07.26.2010 by Chad Schneider

Along with other members of The Giving Circle, Frank is now in Uganda to help bring needed resources to an orphanage. Among other things, he’ll be designing and building a small windmill. Of course, that gives us two weeks to setup a few practical jokes for him.

Engineering, News, Problem Solving, Staff

Engineering Art

07.20.2010 by Brian Murphy

This past weekend, Baltimore once again hosted the annual Artscape Festival, the self-professed largest free art festival in America. It’s an amazing festival, with 3 days packed full of more art than you can shake a stick at. A few Key Techers, including myself, were in attendance and got to experiment with the [...]

Engineering, Uncategorized

Collecting very fine volumetric accuracy data

06.29.2010 by Chad Schneider

As part of the V&V test procedure, we designed a gravimetric means to characterize the volumetric and flow-rate accuracy of a couple of precision injection instruments. With this setup, we’re able to achieve measurement resolution of just 0.1 milligram and reduced the error due to water evaporation to 40 times better than using a mineral oil emulsion.

Engineering, Microfluidics, Problem Solving

Diagnosing anemia with a little elbow grease

06.08.2010 by Abbie Roth

On the radio I heard about a device that several students at Rice created to help diagnose anemia in the developing world. The device acts as a centrifuge to separate the blood into red blood cells and plasma in just 10 minutes and without the use of electricity.

Engineering, Problem Solving

Learn by doing

05.25.2010 by Chad Schneider

I don’t learn anything new from examining a design for the 23rd time. I’ve checked for mistakes, but it’s all based on what I already know and a few educated guesses. The only way I can learn more is by building.

Engineering

Sit still for a great idea

05.18.2010 by Chad Schneider

Making progress feels good, but when progress slows or I’ve hit a roadblock, it can be frustrating. When I need some fresh ideas, it’s time for a distraction.

Engineering, Problem Solving

Maryland – A Biotechnology Leader

05.12.2010 by Jenny Regan

Last week I attended the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) 2010 conference in Chicago, where I learned that the biotech industry thinks Maryland is a great place to do business, and it’s on track to get better.

Business, News

Born with questions

01.26.2010 by Chad Schneider

Is asking the right questions something that can be taught, or do you have to be born with this twisted skill?

Engineering, Problem Solving, Product Design

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