Past Columns

A few months ago, a colleague asked whether he needed a fuse in series...

Values for grounding impedance appear in many standards, including UL 478 and 1244, CSA...

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

Hello everyone, by the time you read this – the Fall 2014 semester at...

The hi-pot test is another safety subject of which few of us feel comfortable...

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

Associate Professor Neils Jonassen authored a bi-monthly static column that appeared in Compliance Engineering...

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.

The C-47 Skytrain banked sharply left and the runway came into view, a slash...

A few months ago, we built a clear plastic box containing a four-inch square...