07 Sep HSA’s and Medical Devices
Has the Health Savings Account affected consumer's spending habits? Is that affecting the design specification for consumer medical devices?...
31 Aug Error Term Propagation
Building products on the assembly line, we need to be sure all of the parts will fit together. But, manufacturing variations may pose problems. Here how to account for them. ...
24 Aug Making Room in the ID Department
The Industrial Design Department at Key Tech is proud to announce the addition of Erik Askin. Erik is a talented designer who recently graduated from RISD....
10 Aug Welcome Back, Frank
Frank's been in rural Uganda for the past two weeks. He went on safari, built a platform for solar panels, dug a deep hole for...
03 Aug Notice to Staff: You Rock! – The Mgmt
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....
27 Jul Medical Device Interoperability
Is it possible to verify and validate the safety and efficacy of medical devices if they could be connected to unknown current and future products? The medical device industry is working with the FDA to work out the safety issues of device interoperability. ...
14 Jul Zorb’s Away
Ever wonder what it would be like to play inside a human hamster ball or maybe even roll down a hill in one? ...
08 Jul Resources for Tinkerers
Are you a tinkerer? For those of us that are concerned about how best to crack open a $1,000 MacBook with a critical soda problem yet have the compelling desire to take it apart anyway, there is help....
29 Jun Collecting Very Fine Volumetric Accuracy Data
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...
01 Jun Do I Really Need to Know This?
Those "core" classes in college may seem superfluous when trying to tackle an engineering curriculum, but I'm grateful that I was exposed to topics like business, philosophy, and psychology. ...
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