This is one book I’ll cherish with the best of them. It was the direction vector for the design thinking I had evolved a few years ago, when doing general design calculations, sizing and performance calculations for general aviation concepts.
A very personal dream I have had is to make an airplane of my own, designed [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Engineering’
May 17, 2009
Nothing like an Old Text Book
October 21, 2008
Chandrayaan-1 and India’s “different” strides in space
Taikonauts have been in space for a few years now, intermittently, and the Chinese space program is definitely racing ahead to catch up with the United States program, but India’s Chandrayaan-1 is surely destined for a different research direction. As an engineer associated at some point with the aerospace industry, I can feel a lot [...]
July 9, 2008
Google, Microsoft, Small World Networks and Futurology
Microsoft and Google’s business methods seem to use pioneering methods, or at least, best practices whose inner workings have been revealed by new found knowledge in the realm of small world networks, and network science. Network science is one of the hottest growing areas on the planet. It is the science of all the connections between various people, phenomena, processes, structures and pretty much any phenomenon whose states are determined by the interaction of multiple phenomena or influences.
April 6, 2008
Updates on various fronts
(This is one more of those irritating update posts.)
One of the great things I did today was buy a new set of strings for my guitar.
I bought a set of phosphor-bronze strings for my Fender acoustic which had nylon strings until this evening. The excellent, ringing sound of the new strings is exciting, because there [...]
April 4, 2008
Robotics Idea Musings (from an errant start)
What’s it going to be now? It has been two years of aerospace engineering, three years of automotive engineering in various areas spanning CAD, manufacturing engineering, ISO systems, CMMI, Six Sigma.
Maybe I should get the Green Belt Certification done first, given that my exam is in June. That should really give me some direction in [...]
