Adding Value with Engineering Design Consulting Services

When does it pay for a company to bring in an outside engineering consultant?  What value can a design consultant bring to the table?  In my 25 years of engineering experience, 10 of that as a consultant, I have seen many approaches.  Most companies enter into a...

Throw me a line

Years of engineering education and design experience using cutting edge technologies.  A sweltering day on the beach in Mexico, a blazing sun, no shade.  Thinking we were so clever, my wife and I prepared in advance by bringing a piece of tarp and some rope so that we...

Ironwood

One of the things I appreciate most about my career as a mechanical engineer is the diversity of applications and applied technology I have had the privilege of developing and supporting.  At the top of the list is one of the more formative and unusual applications of...

Sri Lanka Wakeup

I traveled to Sri Lanka in 1983.   I was part of a World Wildlife Fund sperm whale research expedition.  Five of us lived aboard a 35 foot sailboat and went out to sea on the Indian Ocean for two weeks at a time, finding, following and observing sperm whales....