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Meet FIRST Robotics Mentor Tim Terlouw

Meet FIRST Robotics Mentor Tim Terlouw

Cyborg Cats engineers Lauren Moore and James Zandstra mentioned the Boeing mentors who helped them in the build of their robot. Those “real life engineers” are key to the FIRST experience f…

Meet Future Engineer James Zandstra

Meet Future Engineer James Zandstra

  Meet future engineer James Zandstra – a junior at Westminster Christian Academy. I joined him and his Cyborg Cats teammates on the floor during one of the matches last week….

Meet Future Engineer Lauren Moore

Meet Future Engineer Lauren Moore

Last week at the FIRST Robotics Championship, I met Lauren Moore, the project leader of the Westminster Cyborg Cats – pictured in the center of the pit picture above. Lauren is considering a fut…

Meet Future Engineer Ryan He

Meet Future Engineer Ryan He

Last week at the FIRST Robotics Championship, I met Ryan He. Ryan is a Westminster Cyborg Cat and teammate of Jonathan Bopp. I talked with Ryan after each of the first two matches. It’…

Electric Vehicle Symposium 26 – Los Angeles – May 6-9, 2012

Electric Vehicle Symposium 26 – Los Angeles – May 6-9, 2012

Are you an Electric Vehicle enthusiast interested in seeing a wide range of solutions to enable the electrification of transportation? Join us for EVS26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center! Sieme…

There is a new 3D Printing Conference in Town – AMUG!

There is a new 3D Printing Conference in Town – AMUG!

There is a new 3D printer conference in town so you better watch out! I just got done hanging out at the AMUG conference this week meeting with the folks at the “cutting edge” of additive manufact…

Meet Future Engineer Jonathan Bopp

Meet Future Engineer Jonathan Bopp

Maybe that title should read future “imagineer” since that’s what Jonathan Bopp wants to be one day. Today Jonathan and the Westminster Cyborg Cats will be at the FIRST Robotics National Championship…

Community College Best Practice Revitalizes Manufacturing

Community College Best Practice Revitalizes Manufacturing

This weekend the Des Moines Register reported that “Iowa sees shortage of skilled workers.” It’s not unique to Iowa. Technically skilled workforce shortages abound in the United States. It’…

Femap Tips and Tricks: Using Reference Groups

Femap Tips and Tricks: Using Reference Groups

The Groups capability can be used in Femapto help organize various entities in a model and aid visualization.However Femap also offers the Reference Groups capability which extends this…