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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.

Designing product safety labels that help to prevent injuries and save lives is a multi-faceted task. This month, we’ll focus on another key element: communicating risk using signal words.

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...

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

James Clerk Maxwell was a man of prodigious and singular gifts, of insight, curiosity...

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