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April 2012
Hövding: The Inflatable Bicycle Helmet for Grown-Ups
I live in Lund, a town in the southwest of Sweden. The town is small enough to make it possible to bike everywhere. And approximately 42 percent of all the journeys within my town are by bicycle. The bicycle grid is well-organized and maintained. There are myriad reasons why biking is good for you, and society as a whole—health gains, …
Why Do Women Matter in Engineering and Science?
This week, a group of trailblazing women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields met for a roundtable at the White House to share their experiences and encourage young women to follow in their footsteps. The President has made STEM, and particularly STEM for women, a pet project. Take a look at the White House Science Fair in February, …
Temperature Units
Simple units conversion Unit conversion are simple (in most cases): Converting a quantity, say length, from one unit (e.g. inches) to another (e.g. meters) involves multiplying the quantity by a factor (namely 0.0254). This is very convenient because the following calculations can be done without any ambiguity: Why am I even writing about this? This stuff is trivial. A paradox …
Posted in Mathcad, The Inside Scoop, Uncategorized
Tagged engineering calculations, Mathcad, temperatures, unit conversion, units
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Mathcad Prime 2.0 Nominated for Desktop Engineering’s Editor’s Pick of the Week
On Wednesday April 25th, Desktop Engineering presented the Editor’s Pick of the Week Award to Mathcad Prime 2.0. Desktop Engineering explains, “Each week, DE’s Editor at Large, Tony Lockwood, combs through dozens of new product releases and uses his years of engineering industry knowledge to choose a few products and services that he thinks will help engineers innovate by working smarter and …
Geek Chic: Popular Culture Celebrates Smarts
As a kid, Jaime Paglia hung around his father’s lab at UCLA. Then he’d see how smart people—like the ones he’d met on campus—were portrayed by popular culture. “I grew up with Revenge of the Nerds, which was a huge caricature,” he says. Paglia didn’t become an engineer or scientist, but he did go on to have a big impact …
3 Questions for a FIRST Mentor
Last week, I caught up with Keith Gargiulo of PTC. Gargiulo is a mentor for FIRST Robotics team MARS WARS, based out of Metamora, Illinois. He’s a passionate advocate for the FIRST program, so I wanted to ask him why and how he got involved with mentoring. Here’s what he had to say: Can you describe your job as a …
Students Take on Aeronautical Design Challenge, Get Job Offers From Industry
Orville and Wilbur Wright first became interested in flight as boys when their father gave them a rubber-band-powered helicopter toy. And on a brisk winter’s day in 1903 the brothers became the first to pilot a heavier-than-air machine for a prolonged length of time. The pair crashed most of the planes they built, but they never gave up. Over a …
Brightest Engineering Minds Focus on Asteroids to Sustain Life and Provide Riches
Not quite satisfied with his recent landmark trip to the very depths of the Pacific Ocean, movie maker and extreme explorer James Cameron is backing a new mission to mine precious metals and minerals from asteroids orbiting the Earth. Cameron, along with Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt will bankroll the new project pioneered by Washington-based startup Planetary Resources, it …
What Not to Do in Product Development: The Case of a Swedish Warship
When I hear the words “product development,” I think about the latest consumer gadgets, manufacturing, time-to-market, global supply chains. Product development is not a modern concept, but rather, old processes and strategies which have been evolving for many years as a result of age-old challenges. I recently took my children to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, where the big …
Posted in Connections
Tagged defense, manufacturing, product design, product development, shipping
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ABET Accreditation: Capturing Evidence of Skill Development
Engineering programs at US colleges and universities keep the ABET accreditation criteria in mind when developing new course content, but the critical piece is the current curriculum. A challenging aspect of the ABET accreditation process is capturing evidence that students are not just passing tests, but developing engineering skill through their course work. What constitutes evidence of assimilation and application …
Posted in Education, Mathcad
Tagged ABET, Accreditation, college, math education, STEM, University
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