As an engineer, I have found myself in this kind of situation in many meetings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Most of you have experienced similar situations because you too are an 'Expert'.
However, if you don't understand this video, or cannot fathom the humor, then, maybe you...
Someone just sent me this link and I thought I would share it here. Engineers as a whole are very modest; we focus on our jobs of designing things and solving problems, and never give much thought as to how we might compare with others on mental ability...
The company I work for has older products they support on a repair basis - products inherited from other businesses. I need a datasheet for a dip relay - Sigma 191TE1C1-24L. Sigma has been out-of-business for years.
Under most circumstances, I would get another 24 volt dip relay from another...
I am looking into getting a hand-held thermal imaging camera for use in design verification and prototype evaluation of circuit board power assemblies.
There are so many of these cameras types out there for maintenance use in checking circuit breakers/wiring, building insulation checking, and...
Every engineering discipline is being affected by the present economic conditions. But I was somewhat surprised by the following article posted, of all things, on a website that more centric on scientific articles and issues.
http://www.physorg.com/news166208581.html
The information originates...
Common mode noise arises in switching supplies from the capacitance of the power devices to the heatsink (surface area, insulator thickness and dielectric constant) and the switching speed and waveform of the power devices.
An engineer I work with has seen a book or article that works one...
Some of the discussion in thread248-169911 is making me ask a question I've always wondered about. I design low power circuits that are tested to intrinsic safety standards. This is not a problem when the circuit requires only a few milliamps at 5 Volts or less.
However, I see advertisements...
I am working with a product problem. This industrial product was designed around 1970, and consist of a mixture of discrete transistors, and LM741/LM308 opamps. In other words, the engineers who designed it are long gone, and the circuit approach is not-at-all what would be done today. But I...
The regular RF measurement equipment allows for easy measurement of the impedance of 50 or 75 Ohm unbalanced transmission line. But if you have a symmetrical 2-conductor structure, how do you determine the impedance (without a formula)?
I have a "probe" structure of two parallel flat...
