Those of us who practice, fund, commission, and teach the nascent discipline of social design agree without hesitation on a couple of things: People who experience this type of design in action ...

The construction sector is a major contributor to global climate change, responsible for around 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, developers and builders like you must understand ...

Evaluating and measuring a design’s worth, and determining a designer’s compensation for the design, are challenges facing every organization that brings original products to market. Evaluating and ...

Though we see its effects on other things, we cannot see electricity itself. So how can we measure its voltage? Oh, but we can, with modern and even old-fashioned tools. In fact, measuring something ...

Building surveys are one of the staples of the early stages of any architectural project. Although this task is commonly now outsourced to specialist surveyors for larger projects, especially in the ...

Connected devices and systems have become an integral part of our everyday life and we take this for granted. Finding the fastest way to our destination with a smartphone, reading the news on a tablet ...

Definitions of the electromagnetic emission (EME) with integrated circuits. Challenges of EMI in modern ICs. Some innovations in low-voltage ICs for Improved EMI immunity. In these modern times, ...

Laser Doppler vibrometers (LDVs) measure vibrations in ways that other sensors can't. From large aircraft structures to microscopic MEMS sensors, and Laser Doppler vibrometers (LDVs) measure ...

While meeting with Freescale and Texas Instruments (separately) in Texas last week, I could not but help reconsider what reference designs for complex applications really are and what they might be ...

The SJ-220 portable surface roughness measuring instrument has touchscreen and wireless capabilities. The intuitive touchscreen has a user interface that supports fingertip operations, including flick ...