Becoming a parent changes you in many unexpected ways. In the 1990s, one of those ways was to learn about soccer. Now, I was never as ignorant of “...

I have a wonderfully complex gearbox to reverse engineer. It is a critical component for a thriving company that is the only known gearbox of its t...

A lot has been written on the American Health Care System. Proponents tout the amazing cutting-edge technology; detractors lament our poor standing...

    A number of people have contacted me recently, seeking ideas for new markets. If I knew where the work was hiding, I would go g...

Recently I visited an old workplace and learned that a much admired former co-worker had died several months previously. This is a small industry a...

What better time to talk about schedule slip than at the end of the month. Every place that I have ever worked or worked with has a “month end cris...

It may be difficult for younger readers to imagine, but we once got our instructions verbally from our supervisors. Yes, in a time before e-mail an...

After posting about the difficulty in keeping my “inner engineer” under control outside the workplace, several readers admitted to the same troub...

Aphorisms, pithy statements of fact, are a favorite of mine. They appeal because when you need to remember things you cannot always count on ...

  I do not recall this being brought up during my years at Marquette University’s (MU) engineering school, but the night school crowd was p...