: Incipient engineering Today’s Guardian crossword puzzle brought up the word “incipient”, which is a …
: What we engineer It’s almost as if René Magritte was thinking of engineers when he created his famous painting …
: Presenting: the Phisikawa Diagram Why I’m writing this Extracting something interesting to say out of what feels like a good - …
: The engineer at play - part II: A Playground Continuing my observations on being a working, playful engineer: you can read the introduction in …
: The engineer at play - part I By “play” I mean, of course, “work”, but in a certain mode, which, because …
: Literally Not Engineering I am, for reasons beyond my control, at present - yet hopefully “only” - between jobs: being out of …
: Work - a cautionary tale My previous post was about what I term a “field perspective” of work, which started out …
: About work - a field perspective A post from one of my previous personae, Literally Engineering, from November 2020. I keep coming …
: Here Be... Stuff Stuff. Is that the best word I could come up with to start my philosophically tinged blog on the …
: What are they talking about?! Learning a new language On the face of it, there shouldn’t be a significant difference in how we …
: Welcome to Engiphy! with this post from 2019, four years after my previous and final post as Literally Engineering, I …
: Futurelight another attempt at a (knowingly!) overblown “literary” telling of a small event from …
: Awakenings posted in 2015, this text was I think an attempt at capturing the solitude and darker thoughts of a …
: Today's two days of FMEAs I’m writing this between lectures and dinner on the first of a 2-day FMEA forum in Osnabrück …
: Defining the perfect validation engineer (hint - it's not me) It is fair – and not in the slightest bit unusual – to say that we have been struggling to apply our …
: Report: an investigation into the enduring and endearing constraints of Report Writing More than a few years ago, bordering on the “many”, I was invited to take part in a graduate …
: Engineering Destiny Whilst I’m no longer much of a gamer (I finished Half-Life 2 and got several hours into …
: Engineer as celebrity in India? Note from the future (2024): another attempt at linkblogging. There’s some humour here, but …
: News from ISS - an experiment may be interesting... Cooler fires hint at energy efficiency • The Register Note from the future (2024): I guess I was trying out linkblogging here, but it doesn’t look …
: Ivory Corridors and creased white shirts: a Book review of The Idea Factory Jon Gertner’s The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation is tech reverie, …
: Words and engineering - the twain meet (as always) Note from the future: this was me rebranding from On Engineering to Literally Engineering. It was …
: The Zen of validation We had a customer review today on one of my favourite topics in the whole wide engineering world - …
: Fuel Cell cars - more development, more hurdles Hyundai ix35 fuel cell tank cutaway. Source and permission: greenmotor.co.uk The picture above says …
: On undreaming and actually doing fuel cells Toyota helped to kick off the 2014 CES show by pronouncing themselves happy with the rate of …
: Recycling press releases - carbon composites and engineering churnalism For a variety of reasons unknown to me, I drifted away from that most permanently cutting-edge of …
: On the engineering genius of Daft Punk Lose Yourself to Engineering? It’s fairly safe to say that 2013 was Daft Punk’s year. They brought …
: On engineering with patience and grace (As opposed to engineering with hectic grumpiness) Ah, finally - it’s the Christmas holidays. …
: On excess efficiency …an attribute which this post could not be accused of possessing Cycling back home from the …
: G'day (for) sport From the relative safety of landlocked Heidelberg in Germany, I’ve been keeping tabs on this …
: On our friends in quality Why do we have quality departments? Even posing the question feels like a minor rebellion on my …
: On being grumpy Just before this (at the time long overdue) vacation, I was invited to attend a meeting with a …
: Only just simply words This post was first published over at Engineers Looking For Stuff, to which I contribute every now …
: Please read this procedure originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on 7th July 2013 …
: Fresh perspectives and fresh air in Detroit originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, under my persona …
: Bridging the tumult and the oasis originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, under my persona …
: At the foot of a mountain of data originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, under my persona …
: In praise of process originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, under my persona …
: Sustainable Engineering - a circuitous book review originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, under my persona …
: Trapped in the validation nation originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, under my persona …
: Engineering Things Done originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, under my persona …
: On Staying Engineer originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on the 12th of …
: The power of the sketch originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on the 11th …
: Presenting in my pyjamas: to Shanghai, Bangkok and back originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on 3rd February …
: 'Tis the season to be... audited originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on 13th December …
: On cracking up originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on 25th September …
: Book Review: How Google Tests Software originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on 14th November …
: The numerical pitfalls of engineering in Germany originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on 25th September …
: The value of an FMEA seminar lies not (only) in the presentations originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 25th September …
: Engineers: are we but droplets in the cloud? originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 17th August 2012 …
: Is software engineering engineering? originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 7th August 2012 …
: Ishikawa's stinking fish originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 10th May 2012 …
: Pass the resource - and spread thinly originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 7th May 2012 …
: In, On and Around Detail originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 3rd April 2012 …
: Clearing the decks originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 2nd March 2012 I …
: On an OK dough 'K' originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 29th Jan 2012 …
: On finding things originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 24th Jan 2012 At …
: On PPAPs originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, on 15th Jan 2012 …
: On finding things originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 24th Jan 2012 At …
: This one's on me originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering on 12th Jan 2012 …
: On Engineering this was originally posted to my defunct blog On Engineering on 7th Jan 2012 The number of …