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. ...
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. ...
25 May Learn by Doing
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....
18 May Sit Still for a Great Idea
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....
11 May When To Do It Yourself
Whether to build a custom product or go with something off the shelf can be a tough decision. There are several factors to consider when shopping for off-the-shelf solutions, and cost is only one of them....
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