Aluminum profiles in specialist mechanical engineering – ideas and advantages
For a long time, specialist mechanical engineers welded together steel to make their frames. Gerrit Pies and Wolfgang Rixen, the friends who established item, came up with a ground-breaking idea – screws instead of welds, aluminium instead of steel. The underlying
New Study Reveals Six Common Traits of Successful Female Engineers
For years, companies, universities and nonprofits have researched the reasons why women are less likely to enter STEM fields — and why, once they enter, they face challenges that frequently push them out. In prior research, we at the Center
USDA Program Aims to Introduce Girl Scouts to STEM Subjects
Lily Meritt, a Daisy Girl Scout from Montgomery County, Maryland watched hungry mosquitoes through a plexiglass container at a recent USDA event while a research scientist talked about pests that love to bug people. She and other area Girl Scouts
Digital Engineering – Designing Online Made Simple
With the Engineering tool from item, you can work on your next project intuitively from anywhere and without the need for any additional software. Modern mechanical engineering processes are becoming increasingly digital. Looking back at blog posts from the past year,
Mona Rafiee Believes an Inclusive Workplace Inspires Women Engineers
For many female engineers, workplace culture can be a barrier to their job satisfaction. In fact, recent data indicates that more than half of women who work in science, technology, engineering and mathematics ultimately leave their jobs because they feel
How Culture Impacts Gender Inequality in Engineering Fields
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, Aciel Eshky was often told that science was for boys. But when her aunt started to teach her basic computer programming at 10 years old, she found that she enjoyed the subject and excelled at
One-piece flow – the direct way to lean production
How reorganizing an assembly line boosts productivity by up to 30 percent. Improving the productivity of manual assembly work is a key factor for remaining globally competitive. Anyone who fails to harness the many benefits of lean production approaches such as