Category: Engineers
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Electronics Design: Requirements Capture
Requirements Capture Product Development is the core process your use when you have a great idea for a new product, or an improved version of an existing one. The very first step is to define what it is meant to do. This first step is known as Requirements Capture. And requirements break down into…
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Electronics Design: Process
Electronics Design The Electronics Design Process involves a number of steps. Unless what you are doing is a minor tweak to an existing product, you will use these steps. Over the next few weeks I will unpack what is involved in each step but this post is just going to be the list of steps.…
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Visualisation: Part 4
Viewpoints matter How does the world look to you? This is often one of the areas where Engineers and Customers can get out of step. And in particular, is a big issue for Software Development and IT systems. Check out the image below. Technical professionals such as Engineers and Software Developers tend to…
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Manufacturing a City
How to build a city I went to the Industry Capability Network (ICN) event looking at the project to Rebuild Christchurch after the devastating earthquakes 3 years ago. This was also supported by the Dandenong Council and the South East Melbourne Manufacturing Alliance (SEMMA). I hadn’t realised what an event it was. 70% of the…
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Olympics of Engineering
Olympics of Engineering Have you heard of the Olympics of Engineering before? Well it also goes under the more common name of the World Engineering Conference and Convention which is part of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations. But just like the Olympic Games it is held every four years. The World Engineering Convention 2015…
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Visualisation: Part 3
From Engineer To Entrepreneur This is another one of those pictures that gives you a different impression of which way the door swings depending on whether you use the top of the picture or the bottom of the picture as your reference. On the evening of 31st August I was asked to share with…
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Visualisation: Part 2
The Client Perspective What you see depends on which direction you are looking from. If you count from the top, there are 10 bars. But there are only 7 bars when you count from the bottom. In this case it is an optical illusion based on how the drawing is constructed. However in real…
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Higgs Boson Confirmed
Large Hadron Collider Succeeds CERN Scientists working through the data gathers from experiments using the LHC Large Hadron Collider have finished the exhaustive data analysis and can now confirm that the experiments have confirmed that the Higgs Boson does exist. This has a a few ramifications that are all good: It confirms the…