Category: Technology

  • Higgs Boson Confirmed

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    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…

  • Electronics News Future Awards 2012

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    Electronics News Future Awards 2012 Each year in Australia Electronics News gives out seven awards for Electronics Design. We are very excited to announce that we received two of these seven awards at the Electronics News Future Awards 2012. We are still waiting on official pictures from the awards ceremony held at the Australian Technology…

  • NASA: Congratulations on Curiosity Landing

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    Curiosity Landing We were an excited bunch of Engineers as we watched the live feed from NASA of the landing of Curiosity on the surface of Mars. Given the telemetry delay of 15 minutes, the real landing had already happened. Here we were looking back in time as we were watching history being made. The…

  • Visualisation: Part 1

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    Positioning As an Engineer, I have been educated to think in Engineering Concepts. One of the old jokes about education is that it narrows the number of people you can have an intelligent conversation with.   Today’s blog post image was provided courtesy of Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist who is always on…

  • Space Goes Private

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    SpaceX Dragon Docks with ISS It has been a while in the making, but the the SpaceX Dragon capsule has docked with the International Space Station and the beginning of a new era is upon us. Private enterprise is now making deliveries into space.   At 6:56AM on 25 May 2012 the International Space Station…

  • Aerospace Manufacturing

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    Aircraft Assembly Ever wondered what it looks like to make an entire airplane or how much goes into Aerospace Manufacturing?   How about a major passenger liner?   Then you are really going to enjoy this video showing a time lapse of Boeing putting Florida One together…     My thanks again go to Dr…

  • SEMIP Innovation Showcase 2012

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    SEMIP Today I was at the SEMIP Innovation Showcase 2012. If you aren’t aware, SEMIP is the South East Melbourne Innovation Precinct and aims to improve collaboration between manufacturers in Melbourne’s South East and Research and Innovation providers, principally the CSIRO and the Tertiary Institutes and Universities.   I took some notes and thought I’d…

  • Engineers in Business

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    Ideas Worth Pursuing   BRW recently ran an article by Matt Barrie on business ideas that are worth pursuing. If you haven’t heard of Matt Barrie, he founded Freelancer. In the article he wrote about business ideas that interest him, and what doesn’t interest him. In particular he had a sideswipe at us Engineers about…

  • Space: The Final Frontier

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    OK, I couldn’t resist the title. But you will see why below.   This post was inspired by Romanian teenager Raul Oaida who engaged the help of Melbourne entrepreneur Steve Sammatino to put together a space project. Their motivation was to remind us all that we can now do many things because we want to,…

  • Software Reuse: Software Architecture

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    Modular Software One of the primary goals of modern Software Development is the creation of code that is reusable. This is known as Software Reuse or Code Reuse and the results so far are pretty disappointing. There are a number of reasons for this:   There are multiple software architecture options available There are multiple…