Creativity: Lessons Learned from Octopuses

creativityImage source So, here we go again…intertwining two seemingly unrelated topics — creativity and eight-limbed ocean dwellers — in one interesting blog. Over the years, as my readers know, I’ve enjoyed discussing fresh sources of innovation. Today, it’s the octopus.  First some technical details: Octopuses have eight arms,…


Rethinking Engineering Standards: The Importance of Getting it Right

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

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

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

  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…