Rethinking Engineering Standards: The Importance of Getting it Right
October 29, 2019Technical Expertise & Testing
Photo by Sergey Zolkin on Unsplash Normally, as my readers know, my blogs cover a wide variety of topics. I like to relate and link seemingly unrelated topics to each other in innovative ways. It keeps our critical thinking faculties sharp! However, this blog deviates from the pattern to…
Clear thinking about automated clarification technologies
October 8, 2019Industry Focus,Technical Expertise & Testing
Photo by Michael & Diane Weidner on Unsplash This is an edited version of an article I wrote for The Chemical Engineer. I hope you enjoy this take on automated clarification technologies. Throughout my career in the solid-liquid separation market space, I have seen some…
P&IDs and Process Evolution
September 17, 2019Industry Focus,Technical Expertise & Testing
Photo by ANIRUDH on Unsplash P&IDs are par for the course in process engineering. Recently, I was poring over P&IDs and process planning for several projects. Each project was multinational, multicultural, and extremely complex. For one specialty chemical filtration application, part of…
What We Learn from Baseball Data
August 27, 2019Technical Expertise & Testing
Photo by Joshua Peacock on Unsplash Readers of my blog, know that I am a big baseball fan and now-retired player due to a bad-hop broken nose years ago. Golf is generally much safer. If you look back, you can see my blogs about juiced baseballs, Moneyball and baseball in Japan. I…
Always Be Learning Leadership Skills
Photo by Mathias Jensen on Unsplash One way to be a better leader? Always be thinking about ways to become a better leader. I see lessons about leadership skills in my reading about sports, current events and more. Today, I thought I’d share some examples that have prompted personal…