Summer Workplace Safety & Testing Assumptions

  Photo by Pop & Zebra on Unsplash Summer is here! That means swimming, barbecues, and watermelon. I’ve got to admit, though, I’ll be looking at watermelons a lot differently this season.  Recently, I came across a Black & Veatch video illustrating the importance of wearing your hardhat. They did it by demonstrating structural bolt falling from 20 and 30 feet onto a watermelon.  While physics is not my primary background, I thought it would be interesting to share Rhett Allain’s…


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  Photo by amirali mirhashemian on Unsplash Any process engineer with a love for creativity will appreciate this Business Week article about The DNA of Strawberries. The article features Phil Stewart, a fruit breeder for Driscoll’s (“the largest player in the $5.6 billion U.S. berry market,” according to Business Week). Stewart spent about two years regularly visiting a wild strawberry plant near a Burger King in Wastonville, California. When the vigorous plant finally bore fruit, Stewart…