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Category Archives: Engineering
Engineering the Bottle Cap Opener
At BYU, the engineering Capstone senior project year is now underway. There are 179 students. The first two weeks included lecture on the fundamentals of product development by Professors Carl Sorensen and Brian Jensen regarding Opportunity Development, Architecture Development, Subsystem … Continue reading
Desirability and Transferability
I have some great ideas, they’re spinning in my head They come to me at dawn, while sleeping in my bed The one I got on Tuesday? a must for every home The one I got on Wednesday? an app … Continue reading
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Tagged desirability, Engineering Design, product development, transferability
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One + One-half = Four
“Rick?” Becca burst into her colleagues office with her laptop half open. “In the 3D-Printer specification you state that the extruding-head must move precisely to four equally spaced positions.” Rick let go of his mouse, leaned back and put his … Continue reading
Engineering Riddle – No. 6 (Heat Transfer) “I Scale”
I scale in a wind-storm, I scale in a flood I scale in tornadoes, I scale in the mud I scale in an oven, the air blistering heat I scale in a wind-chill, rain, snow or sleet I scale when … Continue reading
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Tagged heat transfer, Mechanical Engineering, thermal science, thermodynamics
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A Real Engineering Story – Engineering Wheels for Mars
Mission name: Mars Science Laboratory Vehicle name: Curiosity rover Problem: Wheels wearing out on sharp rocks of Mars Solving this problem: Watch this lecture at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) given recently. http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl
Engineering Riddle – No. 5 (Fluid Mechanics) “Dimensionless”
I’m a fraction made of forces, comparing different strength I have no final units, only characteristic length I sample speed and weight and size, these are the things I measure My subject as it ebbs and flows, changes shape forever … Continue reading
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Tagged fluid mechanics, laminar flow, Mechanical Engineering, reynolds number, turbulent flow
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Engineering Riddle – No. 4 (Materials) “A Point of No Returning”
Your welcome to disfigure, transform or twist with vigor, But let me be your warning, to save you dreadful mourning. When released from deformation, whether tension or compression, From my left get restoration, from my right, life-long mutation. I’m a … Continue reading
Engineering Riddle – No. 3 (Physics) “All my strength will be the same”
No matter whether fast or slow, no matter whether high or low, When I return to whence I came, all my strength, will be the same. While traveling round at endless rate, I drop, I rise, I hesitate, But sure … Continue reading
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Tagged circuit, conservation of energy, electrical engineering, electromotive
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Engineering Riddle – No. 2 (Physics) “You push on me, I push right back…”
From in a tube, a fire lit, Great heat and flames, from end emit, The force to make this fluid flow, The same will make the engine go. You push on me, I push right back, You give a … Continue reading
Engineering Riddle – No. 1 (Math) “I may cross once, I may cross twice…”
I may cross once, I may cross twice, I may cross never, but never thrice. When starting up, I finish down, I finish up, when starting down. I have three parts, some friends would say, One straight, one curved, one same all day. … Continue reading
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