I know I’m letting some work colleagues do the heavy lifting for this blog, but wanted to point people to this opinion piece by Rick Merritt for EE Times. The patent system is a good intersection of government and technology, and can be a surprisingly important factor in innovation. The US Patent & Tradmark office [...]
Archive for April, 2009
US patent system reform is required
April 23, 2009Engineers and politics
April 21, 2009A colleague, Patrick Mannion, writes an interesting blog post about the need for Engineers to get involved in the political process. I can see why some engineers might want to stay away from the fray and just concentrate on their immediate jobs, but can they really complain when the laws, government, politicians frustrate them? It’s [...]
How do we inspire the next generation of engineers?
April 15, 2009Been very busy, but no excuse not to keep blogging.
Anyhoo, here is a blog post I wrote for the Industrial Control DesignLine. The Thomas K. Mattingley keynote address at the Embedded Systems Conference really brought back the feeling of excitement that was present during the space race. Will there be events that will capture the [...]
