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The Dangers of Outsourcing

On November 13, 2015 · In Case Studies, Engineering, Manufacturing

“Outsourcing” is a loaded term. In today’s globalised world it has become to mean many things – from using technology to outsource rote work over the internet to sharing capacity with external partners that are more specialised to complete a certain task. However, inherent in the idea of outsourcing is the promise of reduced costs, […]

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What Creates Lift – How Do Wings Work?

On October 10, 2015 · In Aerodynamics, Engineering, General Aerospace

How airplanes fly is one of the most fundamental questions in aerospace engineering. Given its importance to flight, it is surprising how many different and oftentimes wrong explanations are being perpetuated online and in textbooks. Just throughout my time in school and university, I have been confronted with several different explanations of how wings create […]

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Engineering – A Manifesto

On June 19, 2015 · In Engineering, General Aerospace

“Engineering is not the handmaiden of physics any more than medicine is of biology”

What is science? And how is it different from engineering? The two disciplines are closely related and the differences seem subtle at first, but science and engineering ultimately have different goals.

A scientist attempts to gain knowledge about the underlying structure of the […]

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