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?...
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....
20 Jul Engineering Art
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...
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...
08 Jun Diagnosing Anemia with a Little Elbow Grease
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...
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....
12 May Maryland – A Biotechnology Leader
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....
26 Jan Born with Questions
Is asking the right questions something that can be taught, or do you have to be born with this twisted skill?...
12 Jan “HaveYou Ever Worked on [Insert Your Project Here] Before?”
You'd probably like to hear that Key Tech has already built a product just like yours, but if that were true, you might not end up with much competitive advantage in the marketplace. Instead, we go to great lengths to hire and retain talented engineers...
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