Colin is looking for a checklist that must be met before releasing a design to tooling start.

Details on our LinkedIn Group discussion.

Writer for Workforce Diversity Magazine (http://www.eop.com/) looking to interview a college-educated, fulltime electrical engineer working for a large company (3,000 plus) for the fall 2013 issue. The magazine is a career-guidance publication geared

For IDG News Service:

I'm working a story on 3D printing and copyright issues. I'm
trying to explore how businesses can embrace 3D printing and
avoid (or ignore?) copyright issues that people have raised
concerns about. I'm looking for sources on how

The NFL is partnering with GE and Under Armour to sponsor an open innovation contest aimed at preventing and detecting head trauma. Concussions have been a hot topic in sports, especially as evidence mounts that kids are suffering long term damage in

This nifty little crowdsourced gadget uses clever software to track your head movements and adapt the display of your device to stabilize it while you run, jog, or walk. For those of us using a treadmill as a standup desk (which I've considered but a

Media Outlet: Workforce Diversity Magazine

Query: 

Electrical engineer answering email questions about own career
journey

Requirements: 

Must work fulltime for company with more than 3,000 U.S.
employees 

Respond here or email me at info at enginee

The Bay Bridge opened as expected over the Labor Day weekend, after nearly being delayed multiple times. For such a large project to open on time, nevermind even close to on time, is somewhat of a marvel itself. And if you read about how this bridge

If you're an engineer now, it's likely that you don't regret it as a career choice. And if you're considering getting into engineering after high school, there are few careers that will give you more bang for your university buck. College costs have

Forwarded request:

We're looking for qualified panelists (data scientists or
engineers) from companies using big data to make consumers'
lives better to participate in a panel on "Big Data for
Everyone" at DataWeek in San Francisco. If interested, pl

This is for a story being done on a major tech website. If you have any experience, knowledge, or strong opinions, please get in touch.

Looking for popularity trend increase indications, regulatory/legal climate surrounding lack of FAA guidance, and

eBay is at it again. Clearly not satisfied with being an online auctioneer (for years now) they are introducing another nifty service called MyGadgets on the back of their interesting 1-day delivery service and 3D printing portal. I tried it out by a

Ok, probably not. But it's still exciting that this tech is hitting the mainstream so hard after flirting with it for so, so long.

I first used it to make impeller prototypes back in 2006ish. It was expensive, but worth it.  Have you used 3D printers

I love this concept of front loading your schedule. It's basically using a risk management methodology to identify priorities and move them to the front of the queue. And that can be done relatively quickly with some practice, although the key is to

On behalf of the writer:

For Women Engineer magazine, I'm looking to interview female engineers working in the construction field for LARGE companies (2,000+ employees). Article focuses on being a role model for women and advice for engineering stude

And in horrifying news, that guy that keeps making the 3D printed rifles apparently keeps getting better at it!

I'm not sure this is even post-worthy if not only to remind engineers that today's world requires a keen sense of usability and user experience design as a fundamental input requirement, regardless of how much tech and gadgetry can be taken advantage

Ok, so that title might be a bit dramatic. Some might even call it a lie. I would just say it's an overstatement.

But semantics aside, Facebook has released a new feature called On This Day which lets you quickly filter to a moment one year previous

If you've ever wondered what the surface of a fly...and I'm talking about the entire fly...looks like in perverse detail, well you've been able to look at that for years with cool SEM images. But basic SEM imagery is inherently two dimensional (altho

If I still lived in Boston, I would be trying my hardest to navigate with this. Any only this. I'd probably end up in Zelda's dungeon instead of Harvard Sq, but that would be totally worth it.  Click the image to see them all. Super (Mario) Cool.

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