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Pop-up fabrication from the Harvard Microrobotics Lab

01.27.2012 by Chad Schneider

Harvard’s Microrobotics Lab is publishing some amazing work regarding a MEMS fabrication technique for creating 3-dimensional millimeter-scale robots from 2-dimensional multi-layer components.

Manufacturing, Microfabrication

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.

Uncategorized

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

Key Tech and University of Maryland Alumni Event

11.02.2010 by Lei Zong

Key Tech recently hosted an alumni and friends networking event for the University of Maryland at our office in Federal Hill. Speakers included Key Tech CEO Jenny Regan, the Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering Dr. Darryll Pines, and the Provost and Interim President of the university Dr. Nariman Favardin.

Business, Engineering, News

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 different ways [...]

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

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