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Category: Engineering

  • In The Shop: Great Innovations Ultimate Engineering Screw Chart

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    I was reading the following article about the Engineering Slide Charts and realized that it was now available as an App for my phone. Engineering Slide Chart in Play The slide rule may be a quaint anachronism in this age of ubiquitous computing, but there’s still a place for the slide chart, the volvelle, the…

  • Physicists: How to stay dry in the rain

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    From The Washington Post: In the latest issue of the European Journal of Physics, Franco Bocci ponders (pdf) one of life’s enduring mysteries. If you’re caught in the rain without an umbrella, is it better to run or walk in order to stay as dry as possible? This is also a sensible strategy. (Ricky Carioti/The…

  • The World’s Best Engineering Schools

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    From the Business Insider: Some of the best engineering schools in the world serve as feeder programs for the best technology companies out there, like Facebook, Google, and Apple. So, which school is most likely to land you the job you want? Over the past few weeks, we’ve conducted a survey to find out the…

  • Manhattan Project B Reactor Tour Opens New Dates

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    I thought I would never get in to the Manhattan Project B Reactor Tour; however, new dates in July, August, and September have been added.  I took a senior seminar course in History at the U of W back in my day and I recall the look the prof gave me when he couldn’t identify…

  • Write on. Take off.

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    Think Out Loud WhiteyBoard’s Mission: To Help You Initiate Structure. A bit about us, and our company: our products are both innovative and inexpensive alternatives to traditional whiteboards. Even more importantly, they are task-oriented tools that direct activities toward goal attainment. WhiteyBoard was launched in 2010 by college students Saachi Cywinski, Sherwin Kim and recent…