Design Engineer Habits

Heat treatment is one of the most powerful tools in a mechanical designer's material specification toolkit — and one of ...

Design engineers who don't understand welding processes design weldments that are expensive, distorted, and sometimes im...

Casting is one of the oldest manufacturing processes in engineering history — and one of the most frequently misdesigned...

Sheet metal design looks straightforward until you try to fabricate a part and the flat pattern doesn't unfold the way y...

Injection molding is the dominant manufacturing process for high-volume plastic parts — but a plastic part that looks co...

A mechanical engineer without measurement tools is like a software engineer without a debugger — you can produce work, b...

Machining costs are driven almost entirely by setup time, cutting time, and the number of operations required — and all ...

Working as a mechanical engineer at a Japanese manufacturer is a genuinely different professional experience from workin...

Transitioning from salaried employee to independent consulting engineer is one of the highest-stakes career decisions an...

A mechanical engineering degree gives you the foundation — it doesn't give you the depth you'll need for the work you'll...