Category: Education

Introducing 5 Books Every Engineer Should Read to Boost Their Career

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For improving your technical abilities and dealing better with peers, here are the five books that would help you to grow faster.

  1. The Design of Everyday Things – Donald A. Norman

About – Reflection on daily use objects including computers, light switches, door handles, etc.

  1. Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down – J.E. Gordon

About – Narrates principles of structural engineering and basic forces of bridges, dams, etc.

  1. Basic Machines and How They Work, Revised (1994) Edition – Naval Education and Training Program

About – Elaborates theory, design, and application of mechanical products.

  1. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance

About – Insights about great entrepreneur, Elon Musk and his inspirational journey.

  1. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie

About – Simple and easy techniques of winning people around you.

How To Present Your Mechanical Design To The Team?

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The newbies in engineering often feel underestimated due to the lack of soft skills that are required to undermine the job role. For a mechanical engineer, it is more important to present the mechanical design more efficiently than knowing only the technical details.

For those who need to present mechanical design to the peers, or the client to pitch for new business, take help of these tips and make this task a less daunting:

Understand the audience

Represent your design from the perspective of an ordinary man. The audience may not be aware of the nitty-gritty involved, and therefore, your design must be able to communicate the required use and purpose to everyone.

Public Speaking Skills

Work on the confidence level to nail the presentation in front of people. If you still feel anxiety after practicing presentation behind the curtain, remain calm during the actual presentation to go on. Remind yourself that you halfway there, and face people with a smile.

Convey Details

Prepare for the questions that the audience is going to put in front of you. There can be questions related to designs, materials and choices, manufacturing processes and much more. If you don’t have answers to the questions, don’t get nervous and avoid fumbling. Tell them that you will get back with the right answer after the meeting.

Presentation Tips

Don’t keep reading all the content from the PowerPoint and take audience towards the pointer every time. It can leave them confused or bored while listening. Prepare bullets or rough narrative to explain your ideas.

Apart from the presentation, people will judge you more by the mechanical design and not the speaking skills. So, go easy and work on the essentials before the meeting.

Creo 5.0 Offers AR, Topology Optimization and More

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Yes! PTC has successfully launched a new version of parametric CAD software, Creo 5.0. This version of Creo is enticed with new extensions that will bring new functionalities among manufacturing, simulation, augmented reality, topology optimization, and also general productivity improvements.

Here, we have listed new features of the Creo 5.0:

  1. Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing:

The Creo 5.0 is extending support service of 3D printing with Creo Additive Manufacturing for Materialise allowing users to connect directly to printers for metal printing. Also, the Creo Mold Machining extension is giving high-speed 3-axis and 3+2 positioning machining which is optimized for molds, electrodes, and prototypes.

 

      2. Computational Fluid Dynamics:

The new feature of fluid flow extension allows product users or engineers to stimulate the fluid flow directly within Creo. The production company of Creo, PTC also claims that the fluid flow extension is easy to handle, accurate, and brings quick results.

 

      3. BI-Directional CAD:

There is a new collaboration extension which enables the bi-directional exchange of Creo parts and assemblies with the Autodesk Inventor.

  1. Augmented Reality:

With the development of the new version, PTC integrates Creo with AR platform, by allowing Creo users to manufacture and present AR experience from within the designs.

  1. Topology Optimization:

The feature of topology optimization will enable users to insert objectives and constraints. It will also allow the software to automatically create an optimized design.

  1. Productivity Improvements:

Creo 5.0 brings some improvements to the productivity of the user, which includes enhanced user interface, geometry creation, volume helical sweeps, design improvements, surface improvements and a lot more. The advancements in this CAD software will result in better functionality and effective product manufacturing.

PTC’s Brian Thompson also said that “Product designs these days requires advancements, and Creo continues evolving to meet the needs of customers.” The changes brought in the product Creo 5.0 reveals that it can help companies right from the earliest phase of design to smart, and useful product.

The significant features of Creo suggests that new functionalities and capabilities, sets the software apart and gives companies a true competitive edge from ideation till manufacturing.

5 Machine Learning Trends Will Train the IoT MarketAeroAstro Engineering

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The ever-growing world of Information and Technology will soon experience new changes as IoT and machine learning is evolving rapidly. Here we have five of the most dominant machine learning trends that is set to change the IoT Market.

Mobile Machine Learning

The highly compressed machine learning chips will be probably the biggest trend that will affect the presence of IoT. These chips with neural network capabilities will not be as powerful as their cloud-based counterparts, still they will be capable of machine learning tasks.

Automated Data Science

The technology will automate tasks such as scribbling data, removing trivial errors, and deleting junk data which are carried out regularly and are also prone to errors. Such as advent, hence will make this process smooth.

Synthetic Data

Researchers who works on IoT and machine learning algorithms might need a certain amount of data to carry out experiments. In such cases, instead of creating their own data, these professionals can use already existing relevant data. Probably knows as the synthetic data, this collection can be immediately linked to a machine learning algorithm to carry out experimentation.

Machine Learning Hardware

Engineers have now developed some new machine learning hardware that can efficiently and quickly crunch numbers located on the cloud. These tools made the process more quick and affordable.

The Machine Learning’s Black Box Limitation

Machine learning algorithms are generally not programmed, but get evolved as experiment takes place to collect and process data to generate useful information. This can be a hurdle for those who try to deploy machine learning in medical devices. Researcher says they are still making efforts in this direction.

AeroAstro Engineering Student Explores Living on Mars 

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Planet Mars has been fascinating the engineers all over the world for a long time. Researchers and scientists have been working to design simulated environments, rovers and safelights to explore the planet and its life possibilities.
To experience the living conditions and environment, a project called Poland Mars Analogue Simulation was designed.
The project aims to support real missions to Mars by giving researchers an opportunity to see what living and working on Mars will be like.
A team of engineers and researchers started experimenting with this project.
One among them was Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAE) graduate student Jennifer Pouplin. She has been an enthusiastic student studying astrodynamics and propulsion which made her a perfect fit for the experiment.
This was one of a kind of mission that is expected to help researchers potentially explore the planet.