Engineering Word Of The Day

Stop everything! We've hit a breakpoint, and things are gonna get dicey. This is Episode 65 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. Originally published May 28, 2018.

If you have some metal, in a pot or a kettle, on this you can trust: over time it'll rust. This is Episode 64 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. Originally published May 22, 2018.

If I read through a thousand invention patents, I hope I'd learn something, too. This is Episode 63 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. Originally published May 7, 2018.

If you can resist concentrated attack and damage, maybe you've got some engineer-level hardness. This is Episode 62 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. Originally published April 23, 2018.

Cool as a cucumber curved with quite the camber. This is Episode 61 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. Originally published April 12, 2018.

Engineers who study this know how to rub you the right way. This is Episode 60 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. Originally published April 2, 2018.

Wish I handled the dishes in real time, too. Originally published March 26, 2018.

Picture this: a lightning bolt shoots out about 10 gigawatts of power. Subscribe today: www.engineeringwordoftheday.com Originally published March 18, 2018.

Quarter for your thoughts about quaternions? Originally published March 11, 2018.

Let's take a poll. Who knows what this engineering word means? Originally published February 26, 2018.

Have you heard our GNU software engineering word of the day? Originally published February 13, 2018.

For those situations when you just can't let go. Originally published February 5, 2018.

Why Would Somebody Insist We Yank Goats? That's not what WYSIWYG stands for. Originally published January 28, 2018.

Submitting a 510(k) might be like saying you're qualified for college because your fraternal twin is already there. Originally published January 22, 2018.

The delicious flavor of 0% manufacturing defect rate can come from fresh poka-yoke. Originally published January 7, 2018.

New year, new Engineering Word Of The Day. Or in this case, new acronym of the day, standing for "new product development". Originally published January 2, 2018.

As amazing as hexadiagonal flamshooter energy. Originally published December 12, 2017.

Not a doodie cycle, but a duty cycle. Originally published December 6, 2017.

Grow, make, and eat your own dogfood -- I mean products. Originally published November 28, 2017.

This is not normal. Originally published November 21, 2017.