Small Beginnings
About 10 years ago I received a phone call from an acquaintance. He had found a new opportunity selling some sort of investments and he wanted to share it with me in case I was interested. Ken had done...
View ArticleTransition from the Academe to the Industry Unraveled
There have been many arguments here and there about how short-comings of universities and colleges yield engineers with skill sets that do not cater to the demands of the industry. There have been many...
View ArticleHow to Outsource Your Project to Failure
This article will address failure to carefully vet a potential manufacturing or “turnkey” partner and/or failure to transfer sufficient information and requirements to such a partner, a very common...
View ArticleProgramming Efficiency
When I started college, the Intel 4004 was being designed. The C programming language and UNIX operating system were being developed (unbeknownst to me). I did most of my programming in BASIC on an HP...
View ArticleBridging Technical Communication Barriers Between Cultures
Understanding technical concepts in different languages can sometimes prove to be difficult, particularly when you have to communicate it. In this article, I discuss the challenges and possible courses...
View ArticleWho Are You? (I Really Want to Know!)
Borrowing a stanza from The Who’s hit song seemed like a good way to bring attention to a critical topic often ignored by engineers. When finding information on a company that has an interesting...
View ArticleHow To Dumb Down Smart Electronics
In our generation of microcontroller-enhanced everything, it has been frustrating at best to see how often the capability of smart hardware has been foiled by the design of poorly purposed software....
View ArticleProgramming Efficiency: Part 2
A number of years ago I did some work on a PABX. The device was electromechanical and far from state of the art, but the owner had been talked into spending a bunch of money expanding it and couldn’t...
View ArticleTransition from the Academe to the Industry Unraveled (Part 2)
Some few months ago, I wrote an article contrasting academe and work life as well as the adjustments and precautions that had to be made by a typical fresh graduate...Guest blogsread more
View ArticleEngineering Education: Fact and Fiction
I have taken a keen interest in the dialogue (that has been going on for many years) about the quality of engineering education in the U.S.Guest blogsread more
View ArticleFour-Wire Sensing Can Make or Break Your Measurements
Erroneously implementing four-wire sensing into a measurement instrument can be disastrous, so it becomes critical to have a firm grasp of how sense lines function.Guest blogsread more
View ArticleTransition from the Academe to the Industry Unraveled
There have been many arguments here and there about how short-comings of universities and colleges yield engineers with skill sets that do not cater to the demands of the industry. There have been many...
View ArticleHow to Outsource Your Project to Failure
This article will address failure to carefully vet a potential manufacturing or “turnkey” partner and/or failure to transfer sufficient information and requirements to such a partner, a very common...
View ArticleProgramming Efficiency
When I started college, the Intel 4004 was being designed. The C programming language and UNIX operating system were being developed (unbeknownst to me). I did most of my programming in BASIC on an HP...
View ArticleBridging Technical Communication Barriers Between Cultures
Understanding technical concepts in different languages can sometimes prove to be difficult, particularly when you have to communicate it. In this article, I discuss the challenges and possible courses...
View ArticleWho Are You? (I Really Want to Know!)
Borrowing a stanza from The Who’s hit song seemed like a good way to bring attention to a critical topic often ignored by engineers. When finding information on a company that has an interesting...
View ArticleHow To Dumb Down Smart Electronics
In our generation of microcontroller-enhanced everything, it has been frustrating at best to see how often the capability of smart hardware has been foiled by the design of poorly purposed software....
View ArticleProgramming Efficiency: Part 2
A number of years ago I did some work on a PABX. The device was electromechanical and far from state of the art, but the owner had been talked into spending a bunch of money expanding it and couldn’t...
View ArticleTransition from the Academe to the Industry Unraveled (Part 2)
Some few months ago, I wrote an article contrasting academe and work life as well as the adjustments and precautions that had to be made by a typical fresh graduate...Guest blogsread more
View ArticleEngineering Education: Fact and Fiction
I have taken a keen interest in the dialogue (that has been going on for many years) about the quality of engineering education in the U.S.Guest blogsread more
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