Category: Engineers
Ray Keefe: IEEE Senior Life Member
IEEE Senior Life Member I recently received a letter from IEEE informing me that I had been awarded an IEEE Life Senior Member in recognition of my many years of loyal membership and support of activities of IEEE. And included this certificate. This was not something I was expecting and so a very nice surprise.…
Podcast with an Engineer
Ray Keefe on Australia’s Advanced Manufacturing Edge Rick Merten of InsideOut Group has an Engineering Success podcast series.We did an interview together and the results were amazing. One of the best one-on-one interviews I’ve ever had. You Can’t Design a Solution to a Problem You Don’t Understand: Ray Keefe, Successful Endeavours. Why we need electronics…
Attracting and Retaining Engineers
This post was written by Juliana Queiroz, engineer and founder of What Engineers Want, a consulting company that helps manufacturers and engineering firms to unlock their engineers’ full potential towards excellence and innovation. Overcoming labour and skill shortages Businesses stand or fall on the quality of their people – don’t you agree? If we cannot…
IEEE Collabratec
IEEE IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, is the largest professional engineering body in the world and has a world wide focus. I am a Senior Member and have always found it worthwhile. In the days before the Internet was as useful as it is now, they were the best source of regular…
Power Supply Specification
Power Supply Specification The idea for this post came from a discussion in IEEE Collabratec on how to design a Power Supply. The question of how to design a Power Supply seems innocuous enough until you really start to think back on past Power Supply designs. I was originally concerned that this was a student wanting…
Miller Puckette and New Music Creation
Making Music is Creative Making music is a creative process. At every level. There is not only composing and playing, but there is the instruments themselves and also how we record and play back music. Technology and creativity abound at every level. I’m a musician. That is how I ended up in Electronics Engineering.…
Mechanical Gears Breakthrough
Mechanisms Mechanisms are important in many aspects of modern life. They adjust the focus on your smart phone camera, put the wheels down when a plane is coming in to land, allows automobiles, trains, trucks and ships to move and even allow probes to roam about on the surface of Mars. So I was…
Branding – what’s the big deal?
Branding So what is Branding? Well, it is one of the most important concepts in business. Simply put, your Brand encapsulates your promise to your customers. As an engineer who was running an Electronics Design business, I was your typical eMyth technician, or in my case, Engineer. I didn’t understand that there were dimensions to…
Australian Technical Events 2016
2016 Australian Technical Events My thanks go to Paul Daniels of Circuit Challenges and LC Circuits for preparing most of this list and to Joseph Madeley of IDC Technologies for details on their events. International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation 18-19 Jan 2016 Brisbane LINUX Conference 1-5 Feb 2016 Geelong Interactive Entertainment Conference 2-5 Feb 2016…