Engineering Word Of The Day

To shrink the number of our faulty counts,
you have to learn how to debounce.

This is Episode 105 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show …

My code is as long as here to Saturn, but condensed and confused in an anti-pattern.

This is Episode 104 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in …

They told me, "Let 'er rip, guy!"

"Tighten up that zip tie!"

This is Episode 103 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, …

The chemical reaction we smell from afar

that gives satisfaction is named Maillard.

This is Episode 102 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in …

Do wooden planks below my feet not splinter while they shift

during monumental bends and strains from interstory drift?

This is Episode 101 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or …

Mechanical engineers must work

to eliminate excessive jerk.

This is Episode 100 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering …

Stack your your stones and let walls join

to make an old-school building quoin.

This is Episode 99 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show …

You might see some programmers scurrying

when trying to implement a little currying.

This is Episode 98 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in …

Every product has flaws and some quirks,

but are products better if they come from skunkworks?

This is Episode 97 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases …

Engineers, don't be shady, eh?

Design it with the ADA.

This is Episode 96 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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Get an engineer and a chiropractor

if you're going to move that bioreactor.

This is Episode 95 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various …

A real electrical top champ

is the multitalented op amp.

This is Episode 94 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, …

To prevent your frustration

have good fenestration.

This is Episode 93 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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Materials at their best

will take a lot of stress.

This is Episode 92 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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If I total my car, you see,

I'll just call it an RUD.

This is Episode 91 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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An engineer will feel at home

when surrounded by many an ohm.

This is Episode 90 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering …

To control and steer kinetic energy

is an actuator's ultimate apogee.

This is Episode 89 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on …

Is there a standard I may have missed?

Time to consult the engineers at NIST.

This is Episode 88 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on …

A robot arm may have a prehensile length

that should be tested for its tensile strength!

This is Episode 87 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an …

You want to prevent catastrophe, eh?

Well, engineers, do FMEA.

This is Episode 86 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering …

Engineers take a ton of tests. They're thinking: Can I pass it all?  
They do, and they build tons of things, and some are made of acetal.

This is Episode 85 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on …

If you can't decide, and you're on the fence, get knocked right off, by some resonance.

This is Episode 84 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in …

Ah, potentiometers. So much potential use, right?

This is Episode 83 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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If your client calls a centimeter a "sontimeter," I'll assume they're medical and you've got a leader.

This is Episode 82 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and …

Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS subsystem of the atomic clock. Hugo was one of four recipients of the …

This challenge will not tackle us; we'll tackle it, we'll win, this calculus.

This is Episode 80 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on …

That frog is not frenetic; it floats and is diamagnetic. This is Episode 79 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

Engineers, unite! Harness the power of perovskite. This is Episode 78 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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It's the real MVP of simplifying user interfaces in some programming languages these days. This is Episode 77 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in …

I like my definitions to be CRISPR and clearer. This is Episode 76 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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Messing with this gas of a word isn't ideal. This is Episode 75 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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Programming programs to program their own programs. This is Episode 74 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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One is fun, and zero is a hero, in our engineering programming languages. This is Episode 73 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various …

Whip your brain into shape by studying trochoidal things.This is Episode 72 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

Let's take a crack at this jargon from quality and reliability engineering (but don't crack your products). This is Episode 71 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words …

Keep your data streams from going helter skelter with the help of a Kalman filter. This is Episode 70 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various …

Forget to get your tare, and you might shed a tear. This is Episode 69 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.

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I tried ceramic glazing / The result was quite amazing / When I saw it cool / I touched not a tool / The surface showed cracks and crazing. ***This …

Always think positive, unless you're doing negative testing. This is Episode 67 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering …

She thought it was very fancy of her / to separate the two enantiomers / She looked in the mirror / It couldn't be clearer / The left one was better …

Stop everything! We've hit a breakpoint, and things are gonna get dicey. This is Episode 65 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various …

If you have some metal, in a pot or a kettle, on this you can trust: over time it'll rust. This is Episode 64 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in …

If I read through a thousand invention patents, I hope I'd learn something, too. This is Episode 63 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various …

If you can resist concentrated attack and damage, maybe you've got some engineer-level hardness. This is Episode 62 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases …

Cool as a cucumber curved with quite the camber. This is Episode 61 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or …

Engineers who study this know how to rub you the right way. This is Episode 60 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering …

Wish I handled the dishes in real time, too.

Originally published March 26, 2018.

Picture this: a lightning bolt shoots out about 10 gigawatts of power. Subscribe today: www.engineeringwordoftheday.com

Originally published March …

Quarter for your thoughts about quaternions?

Originally published March 11, 2018.

Let's take a poll. Who knows what this engineering word means?

Originally published February 26, 2018.

Have you heard our GNU software engineering word of the day?

Originally published February 13, 2018.

For those situations when you just can't let go.

Originally published February 5, 2018.

Why Would Somebody Insist We Yank Goats? That's not what WYSIWYG stands for.

Originally published January 28, 2018.

Submitting a 510(k) might be like saying you're qualified for college because your fraternal twin is already there.

Originally published January 22, …

The delicious flavor of 0% manufacturing defect rate can come from fresh poka-yoke.

Originally published January 7, 2018.

New year, new Engineering Word Of The Day. Or in this case, new acronym of the day, standing for "new product development".

Originally published January 2, 2018.

As amazing as hexadiagonal flamshooter energy.

Originally published December 12, 2017.

Not a doodie cycle, but a duty cycle.

Originally published December 6, 2017.

Grow, make, and eat your own dogfood -- I mean products.

Originally published November 28, 2017.

This is not normal.

Originally published November 21, 2017.

Upskill your team without killing the mood.

Originally published November 13, 2017.

Organize your to-do list efficiently!

Originally published November 6, 2017.

Keep your hands clean when you write professional publications.

Originally published October 31, 2017.

This podcast is aiming to avoid being aural dross.

Originally published October 24, 2017.

Let's have a détente over detents.

Originally published October 18, 2017.

It's not a power ballad by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it's not a burrito chain. What is it? The question floods me with curiosity.

Originally published October 7, 2017.

If only we could be sparging all our troubles away...

Originally published October 4, 2017.

Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?

Originally published September 30, 2017.

Discussing a cascade of styles all over the sheets.

Originally published September 27, 2017.

And a heliotrope used to describe a flower that turns toward the sun.

Originally published September 16, 2017.

Why doesn't solder rhyme with older?

Originally published September 13, 2017.

One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?

Originally published September 9, 2017.

How are isomers like ice cream?

Originally published September 6, 2017.

It's the OG OEM.

Originally published September 9, 2017.

Trying not to talk in circles here.

Originally published August 30, 2017.

I'm orthogonal, and I've never felt so right.

Originally published August 26, 2017.

It's customer-centered design versus blue sky design. Who will win?

Originally published August 23, 2017.

When astronomical data becomes hard to pronounce.

Originally published August 19, 2017.

Sia's new music video for "Viscoelastic Heart" is pretty weird.

Originally published August 16, 2017.

A tool for pirates navigating the oceans, and more, yarrr...

Originally published August 12, 2017.

Not just telephone operators, folks!

Originally published August 9, 2017.

When you're almost done designing something, do you start to feel very sensitive?

Originally published August 5, 2017.

Don't you dare impede my learning.

Originally published August 2, 2017.

Acronyms galore! The UTC defines UNC and UNF standards in the USA. Oof.

Originally published July 29, 2017.

Both a target and a tool of biomedical engineering nowadays.

Originally published July 26, 2017.

Another design buzzword? Or important field? Both?

Originally published July 22, 2017.

You use it to help design devices that end up in more than your kitchen.

Originally published July 19, 2017.

Special guest engineer an business consultant Pat Sweet, P.Eng., joins the EWOTD podcast for another episode to talk about the important concept of …

Engineering and business consultant Pat Sweet, P.Eng., guests on today's podcast. You can find him over at "Engineering and Leadership" on the web: …

Atomic poetry in the electron cloud model.

Originally published July 8, 2017.

Is there a program called Matt Daemon that secretly translates everything you say around your computer into a Boston accent?

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No, it's not an alternative slang form of "tap that," but it is a part that really gets us going. See Chysler's 1950's explanation: …

Is being a brogrammer a good thing?

Originally published June 28, 2017.

Not just a murderer, folks, as automotive engineers and technologists know.

Originally published June 24, 2017.

Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.

Originally published June 21, 2017.

How is an autogyro different from a helicopter?

Originally published June 17, 2017.

All hail and all fear the magic smoke!

Originally published June 14, 2017.

Describing revolute joints.

Originally published June 10, 2017.

Not to be confused with biological polymorphism, polymorphism in programming languages can add robustness to your engineering code.

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Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?

Originally published June 3, 2017.

SWE wants to "stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders," among other goals.

Originally published May 31, 2017.

Talking about eutectic points of solid mixtures.

Originally published May 27, 2017.

Discussing the "Wronskian" of differential equations.

Originally published May 24, 2017

Explaining the collaborative idea generation technique of brainwriting.

Originally published May 20, 2017

Engineering Word Of The Day: iterate

Originally published May 17, 2017