reality engineering

The measurement of Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) is arguably the most complex of compliance issues, affecting thousands of new device models and billions of radio transmitters.

Gazing heavenward is as old as our eyeballs in their orbits. We look and...

Walking out the door on any given weekday, heading to work, means making sure...

Well There They Go Again… The FCC tossed out another Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)...

It’s normal to have a few regrets and I have more than the crooner...

This month’s Reality Engineering takes a stab at circumstance. As engineers we are creatures...

Most readers of this magazine can speak aloud the title of this piece, "On...

This issue of In Compliance magazine presents the annual ode to Test Equipment. In...

Olfactory nerves lie at the top of your nasal passages and their associated axons...

The next couple of installments of Reality Engineering will carry a spacey theme, in recognition of the ongoing efforts of rocket scientists and engineers in our community. Testing and verification of space-borne systems are critically important, you don’t get “do-overs” in space shots (we found that out in an earlier post “The Ringing Rocket"). Here we visit some NASA facilities that proved out Apollo-era designs and are being maintained for the next phase of space engineering.