Taking Risks to Achieve Superior Results

Innovation in engineering is key to staying competitive in today’s highly diverse market. But innovating often requires taking risks- engineers must be willing to push the boundaries of what is possible and explore new technologies and their applications. But taking risks in engineering design can feel dangerous, after all what if it fails? Taking risks …

Multitasking is padding project timelines everywhere

Working as an engineer on multiple projects at the same time is a myth. – Brave Engineer There, I said it.  I’ve heard individuals in the past brag about their ability to multitask in the workplace, but is it really such a good thing?  When an engineer is working on multiple projects no one project …

Agile methods for Hardware Development

Agile Manifesto for Hardware Development: “While there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.” Agile project management is a development methodology which has roots in the software development world, used to improve the quality of highly complex software by breaking it down into bite-sized “chunks” which are …