An interesting article about 3D printing of ceramics for making aerospace parts (full disclosure: yours truly appears in the story).
Category: Engineering
3D Printing for DoD Replacement Parts
Here’s an interesting story: Renaissance Services, an Ohio-based enterprise systems integrator for aerospace and defense companies, has received an Air Force contract to support production of gearboxes and housings for out-of-production aircraft and engines using 3D printed ceramic molds. Source:
Is Meritocracy Bad?
Some of these people are just plainly “off their rockers”… A math education professor at Brooklyn College contends in a recent academic article that “meritocracy” in math classes is a “tool of whiteness.” Laurie Rubel implicates both meritocracy and “color-blindness”
Journalists vs Engineers
It’s an interesting contrast between the journalists from New York and the engineers in Ohio…
Microsoft on Google
This is an interesting development: Chromebook users looking for an alternative to Google’s set of editing tools can now turn to Microsoft Office, which is finally available on Chromebooks. The suite of office apps—Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook—has been available
Does Reality Matter Anymore?
We are supposed to be living in this golden age of technology where it provides us with great insights — artificial intelligence, machine learning, and business analytics. These are activities that are all based on dealing with large amounts of
Flowers in Our Garden
As a follow-up to the previous posting on our efforts with horticulture (found here), I’ve included photos of the various flowers that we’ve raised in our Ohio summer garden (mostly from seeds):
Putting More than $100 Million into Library Facilities
In this day and age when hard-copy printed media is disappearing, the Dayton Daily News shares an article about investing $64M for a new downtown library. The story is subtitled “What taxpayers are getting for their money.” While the facilities
Garden Panorama
At this point you’ve probably discovered that I am an avid horticulturist (fancy word for ‘gardener’). This year I planted Vinca vines at the top of my lattice panels (which love to grow downwards) and Morning Glory vines at the
New Approach for Growing Pumpkins
Update The experiment has delivered some initial results. While the plant started to grow a nice sized pumpkin, it appears that the vining plant does not like growing in the vertical direction. All of the leaves have slowly died off