Past Columns

This month’s “theme” I think can best be summarized as “Learning it by DOING...

This article pays tribute to James Clerk Maxwell, highlighting his journey from a teased schoolboy to a revolutionary physicist, describing his curious nature, visualization skills, and groundbreaking electromagnetic field theories that transformed physics.

One of our members suggested I write about thermocouples and temperature measurement. Textbooks have...

I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them. To discover anything new, one...

One of my colleagues has a desk drawer full of I/O boards that have...

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. Radiometers are cool. Some are...

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

Furor and controversy are words which describe the process by which standards committees decide the value of the resistor in the leakage current measuring network. However, the different specified resistor values create no more than a 6.25% error for the value of the leakage current.

It rolls out in acres and covers millions of square meters of the planet....

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