Christmas Gifts for Young Engineers

John Hayes posted on December 04, 2009

How to be a hero without going to a mall

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Q:Why do volts have heated rear windows?

Pawl Bearing posted on December 03, 2009

This week, Pawl wonders if two consecutive mishaps with rechargeable batteries are a bad omen for things to come with battery powered cars.

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Is Lou Dobbs right?

AveekGuha posted on November 29, 2009

Most management academics will adamantly defend outsourcing - a company that can source activities elsewhere for cheaper/better should do so. Hence the rash of manufacturing, engineering, IT activities that have been sourced to cheaper labor pools overseas. This is great for the consumer & the company, but terrible for the middle class worker.

Consider this: an Executive recently told me that his manufacturing facility in the US at non-union rates is $15/hr, facility in Tijuana, MX is $4.50/hr, and facility in China is $1.50/hr. He will shift more and more of his work to the China location.

But where does this leave the community? Those jobs will not be replaced and there are no other jobs to be retrained too -- there is simply nothing for these people to do. There is a whole class of worker that thrived in the 80's that is becoming irrelevant now; it seems like we are on an inevitable march to

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Entry12A - My last word on "root-facet GOG-MAGOG solids"

gerald h. hantusch posted on November 27, 2009

I believe these geometric solids are NEW - not previously disclosed in any popular mathematics text. They can easily be built as table-top models, but can also be "up-scaled" to make huge architectural structures : easy alternatives to "Buckminster Fuller Domes". They form several infinite families, but with what I disclose here, anyone can "try them on for size".

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Structural ribs for added pleasure

Pawl Bearing posted on November 26, 2009

Never ever put ribs and radii on parts before a design review meeting. Here's why:

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First Flight Successful for Newest SolidWorks User Group

Richard posted on November 24, 2009

Off and Running; First Ever SolidWorks User Group Meeing held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Giveback café

Pawl Bearing posted on November 20, 2009

The word of the week for your Automotive Engineering Vocabulary.

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95% of engineering advertising is wasted

John Hayes posted on November 18, 2009

First of a series of blog posts on how to use the Internet to reach a technical market

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Dear Abby, my son wants to become a quality engineer

Pawl Bearing posted on November 18, 2009

A quality engineer walks into the office in the morning. His desk is old and has some permanent coffee stains on it. Besides his telephone and a picture of his pimply wife, it is void. His chair is exacly where he left it the day before: perfectly centered in the middle of his desk. He has a marker on his chair to help him line it up perfectly. He learned that trick in 5S training and feels superior to everyone else because he's the only guy who does that.

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Remote Desert Wanderings

Richard posted on November 14, 2009

Think of someplace remote and then look at this one.

For all those teachers and other interested people in education of our children, this article will show you the effort that our school district is putting out to get a special message out to our children. Maybe it could work with yours. We are all volunteers that do this job. We are also told that we are making a noticeable difference.

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US Renewable Energy Project Equipped with Real Time Condition Monitoring

LIOS posted on November 14, 2009

One of the biggest American renewable energy companies use real time condition monitoring DTS (distributed temperature sensing) system for monitoring the temperature of two medium voltage power cables directly buried coming from a wind turbine towards the substation.

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Toys for All Kids Big and Small

TrentonTech posted on November 12, 2009

Trenton is a proud sponsor of Toys for Tots as we believe in supporting and giving back to our local community.

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What is your dream computer system?

TrentonTech posted on November 11, 2009

How would you design your dream system?

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Trenton Technology Thanks all our Veterans

TrentonTech posted on November 10, 2009

Thank you to all the past, present and future men and women of our wonderful Armed Services!

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Success story for permanent downhole sensing - Maximize your ROI with DTS

LIOS posted on November 10, 2009

Technology is the key driver in the quest for greater efficiency. In the oil and gas industry, there is keen interest and high demand for low-cost, reliable, and easily installable systems to enhance downhole production and recovery.

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Dynamic wind farm load patterns recorded by long range DTS

LIOS posted on November 10, 2009

The biggest Danish utility owner has successfully completed the installation of LIOS' Single Mode DTS equipment to monitor the power cable temperature of an offshore UK wind farm.

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10 X growth?

John Hayes posted on November 05, 2009

ENGINEERING.com announces Q3 results

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The 5 Top Ways to Motivate Engineers

TrentonTech posted on November 03, 2009

What are the top 5 ways to motivate Engineers?

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Solar One of Engineering.com Progress Report

Richard posted on October 31, 2009

Solar One of Engineering.com; Progress Report

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effing FMEA

Pawl Bearing posted on October 29, 2009

If you ever had any lecture on "automotive quality engineering" you're forgiven for believing that the FMEA is the solution to all north American car reliability woes. Here's Pawl's spin:

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"Too big to fail" fund backed by private companies -- I like it

AveekGuha posted on October 29, 2009

Treasury secretary Geithner endorses Barney Frank's recent proposal to have a fund to bailout 'too big to fail firms', funded by companies with over $10B in assets. This type of security net for your competitors is an astounding concept, one that would be ridiculed in other industries (would Budweiser shed any tears if Miller went out of business? would they provide any money to prop them up?!)

The beauty of this plan is that it might actually avoid the other Wall Street dirty word: regulation. Even with the market meltdown, Wall Street has been resolutely against the need for more regulation.

Well here's your solution. Instead of providing regulation, you create 'unemployment insurance

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New User Group Starts

Richard posted on October 29, 2009

Informational Invitation to a new SolidWorks User Group forming in Las Vegas.

by Corporal Willy 10/29/2009

Some exciting news here if anyone out there has been waiting like me to hear about a newly forming SolidWorks User Group. I have been asked to help get the word out and I am very happy to do this. Please check the at

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I’m Pickin Up Good Vibrations

TrentonTech posted on October 29, 2009

How vibration testing in computers can actually be funny.

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Taking the Bad with the Good

Richard posted on October 23, 2009

We all know how hard it was to prepare ourselves for our careers. Many of us have never worked during the challenges of an economic downturn so it is a new experience. Some of us lost our jobs because of cutbacks and that can be devastating. We had some real professionals tell our young students exactly what to expect.

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Your Green Alternative to Traditional Manufacturing Methods

RedEye Tim posted on October 23, 2009

Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM)
An eco-friendly alternative?

Designing for sustainability is a hot topic in today’s engineering world. Design software companies are adding tools to help engineers compare manufacturing methods and materials so they can evaluate their design's c

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Entry # 12 : OTCOM - how I discovered "Root-Rectangle Gog-Magog Structures"

gerald h. hantusch posted on October 23, 2009

Gog-Magog structures are almost the last word in Near-Sphere Domes technology. Any not-too-pliant identical rectangles ( - hardware available from DIY suppliers : door panels, etc) will integrate together to create near-spheres, domes, and partial concavexities, without tedious calculations on the part of the constructor. This entry describes how the Gog-Magog concept evolved by serendipity from my disclosure of "Absojewels" in Entry # 11 of this blog

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What is so nice about a Great Marriage

Richard posted on October 21, 2009

A Beautiful Marriage

By Corporal Willy, October 21st, 2009

One of the nice things about what I do these days is the priveledge of meeting with CAD Industry Vendors and getting to try out the "new stuff " that will be coming out. It is fun to be able to give some feedback to those that are anxious to hear if you like it or do not like it or something in it. I've been doing Beta Testing for a number of years with different industry CAD vendors but I do not allow anything to interfere with my work with youngsters. That is a priority with me. When I find something like these two programs that in not only a great deal but a really great coming together, joining forces, a marriage, then I have to tell everyone I

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Solar Birdhouse & Me

Richard posted on October 21, 2009

Tweet, Tweet, Tweet in my Birdhouse

By Corporal Willy, 10/20/2009

Wouldn't it be great to have everything you needed to do your experiments with? Well it is harder to do it without them but it is still doable as you will see.

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Something for Teachers to think about.

Richard posted on October 20, 2009

Alternative Materials from Outside of the Box; Literally.

I wanted to help come up with a cheaper idea for our teachers to use in our schools so this is what I came up with for those special classes that the youngsters love to take these days.

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Why free services for engineers?

John Hayes posted on October 18, 2009

ENGINEERING.com update

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Something cute

Richard posted on October 14, 2009

I thought this would be a cute thing to share with all of you. At least thirty times each school year I go to talk to our youngsters in their classrooms. I preach to them about the importance of getting a good education and I even do some plugs to get more of them interested in the engineering realm. This last Tuesday I talked to a somewhat much younger group of kids then I am usually assigned to, but it was a very memorable occasion. I do this with about thirty other adults from every type of job and culture. From a Rocket Scientist to Medical Doctors to guys like me from the Construction Industry. We all have our messages to give and we are called the 'PAYBAC' group which stands for "Professionals And Youth Building A Committment."

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Entry # 11 The Diophant and its geometric jewel facets

gerald h. hantusch posted on October 14, 2009

This is an integer-approximation of a "solid" that necessarily contains several "irrational lengths. The particular seven integers lengths have many applications, and also led me to the discovery of "Gogmagoc" structures - domes, near-spheres and a whole raft of unexpected solids that look attractive besides being useful.

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Stimulus Spent - $160 Billion

John Hayes posted on October 13, 2009

Infrastructure requirement – $2.2 Trillion (uh oh)

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Area-51 Comes to Las Vegas.

Richard posted on October 10, 2009

Area-51 Comes to Las Vegas

By Corporal Willy, October 7^th 2009

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Engineering networking in Detroit

John Hayes posted on September 28, 2009

The best networking is face to face

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Inside Solar One

Richard posted on September 25, 2009

Solar One of Engineering.com; Getting its Insides Made

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You know you are an engineering geek when...

TrentonTech posted on September 21, 2009

You know you are a seasoned engineer when:

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Solar One of Engineering.com, Update.

Richard posted on September 15, 2009

Solar One of Engineering.com, From the Bottom Up By Corporal Willy, Sept. 14^th, 2009

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Engineering Job Board is #1

John Hayes posted on September 10, 2009

Report ranks ENGINEERING.com best for jobs

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Where you Live is Important to this Blog Article.

Richard posted on September 10, 2009

Back to work on Solar One

Yes, I am once again at work on the Solar One project but until I have enough to post for everyone that might be interested in that one, I have this idea for you to consider and I believe we should all talk about it.

Drinkable water, Global Warming, Droughts, Animal & Plant Kingdoms and our Human Population. Will the top of the food chain be last or the first to perish if we do not help solve the problems we have today? Here is my own plan to help solve these th

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What does iTunes and digital manufacturing have in common?

RedEye Tim posted on September 09, 2009

Although digital manufacturing technology is still evolving, it is further along than many people realize. This technology combined with true thermoplastics is allowing manufacturers to transform their production process by creating real end-use parts right from their computer.
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Do you teach Engineering?

John Hayes posted on September 08, 2009

Students need engaging lessons
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Problems in Translations and a Tool to Correct it.

Richard posted on September 03, 2009

TransMagic R8 the Problem Fixer.

The Competitive Edge can easily be lost when collaborating and bad translations show up due to non-compatible file types. Programs are getting better at doing this but not always in the file type you might need. Import and Export of file types must work well if whoever gets your file is going to be able to work with it. TransMagic R8, can make problems dissappear with most incompatible file types. Downloadable trial versions will tell you for sure.

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Top 6 Engineering Acronyms

TrentonTech posted on September 02, 2009

Here at Trenton, you hear interesting abbreviated conversations in the hall. All the acronyms are hard to keep track without a decoder ring.

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A Science Project for Today’s Classrooms: Part 2

Richard posted on August 26, 2009

A Science Project for Today's Classrooms: Part 2

by Corporal Willy, August 26th 2009

     What I did not know was that each blog page has a limited amount of space. If you exceed that then you are possibly going to run out of space for things like comments or supplemental information. So I was advised by the powers to be to post a Part 2 to show you my Lesson plan and references I used in helping me create the science project.

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Entry # 10 - some loose ends tied about my solar concentrator designs

gerald h. hantusch posted on August 26, 2009

All good as well as unguid things come to an end - and so herewith, does this particular subset-series of blog-entries concerning GO-SHENG Solar Radiation Concentrators. It remains my claim that any handy person can build models to verify these designs on the kitchen-table (small scale), the back-yard (medium scale but own resources) or on the boundless sundrenched sea-shores ( large scale - preferably capitalised with Oil-Sheikh Money). Be a devil ! Read all about it inside !
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Back to School Today

Richard posted on August 24, 2009

New Ideas Being Tried In Schools.

By Corporal Willy, August 24th 2009

     Every once in awhile you get a chance to help make a difference with something. Not that my own ideas are the only ones or better than many others but I have been asked to propose some for our schools. So I endeavored to do the best that I could to come up with my first of many ideas for teachers to use. It is a lot more than just a project for them to build and the excitement of doing destructive testing in class but to see which model was built the best. They will learn some very valuable team working tips and another real benefit of listening and following di
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Your identity on engineering sites

John Hayes posted on August 21, 2009

Do you want to collaborate across sites?
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Entry 9 - step'n'wedgecalc - a helpful bit of CAD

gerald h. hantusch posted on August 17, 2009

Cost-effective solar concentrators should not take up too much designer time, because of too many tedious calculations. This little bittie CAD allows anyone who wants to design a "step'n'wedge-based" solar concentrator to enter three numbers, and see his design laid out in rounded figures to two places of decimals or whatever precision is of interest. From these figures, any amateur can use an ordinary CAD program to set up a visual model, or actually create a visible section drawing on a simple bitmap or vectorial drawing program
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Stimulus funding and Engineering Education

John Hayes posted on August 14, 2009

Why educators can’t follow the money
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