Lo, my 100 subscribers, who are you?
So I recently checked my subscription statistics to find that over a hundred of you have subscribed to pdnotebook. First, thanks. Second, why do you subscribe? What content do you find valuable? What...
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nailed it Related posts: how engineers + designers should use Evernote why mechanical engineers should take MIT 6.00x (starts monday 10.01.12)
View Articlewhat not to do with a good idea
Don’t stretch a good idea beyond its elastic limit. Related posts: when to use nonlinear finite element analysis good process: simplified good design are smartphones good?
View Articleclassiest disagreement ever
Listening to the supreme court arguments on healthcare… much more entertaining than I expected. Anyway, there is an exchange that struck me as the best wording to disagree with someone who makes an...
View Articlethe one thing you need to know about FEA
By definition, the people performing FEA studies know more about it than most (if not all) of the people reviewing the final report. This can become a problem if, among the rainbow colored plots and...
View ArticleJoichi Ito on the future of science and technology
Joichi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, prompted by Steelcase: One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it....
View Articlethe program manager’s paradox
Projects always take longer than you expect, even when you account for the fact that projects always take longer than you expect. a.k.a. Hofstadter’s Law Related posts: patent bar practice exam –...
View Articlethe essence of engineering
From Proffessor Eric Grimson at MIT …what we try and do is, we take a new problem and map it onto an old problem so that we can use an old solution.In order to be able to do that, it’s nice to have in...
View Articlegood things come to those who wait?
“Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.” -Abraham Lincoln Related posts: pro|engineer (or creo, or whatever): a few more things urethane castings: 3 things to...
View Articlethe ability to learn
I’m fond of telling students that the most important skill they are developing is the ability to learn. In that vein I just had to share this graph from Seb Paquet: Related posts: CAD job trends: or...
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