Be honest: The uncertainties of leading-edge engineering R&D are quite modest compared to what medical research faces, especially in areas such as epidemiology. Like many of you, I have been trying to follow many of the numbers related to the Covid-19 virus as well as ongoing vaccine efforts – and I have given up. The […]
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Hey, engineers: be grateful you are not epidemiologists! (Part 2: Engineering R&D)
Part 1 of this article looked at the challenges and unavoidable uncertainties facing so much of medical research, and why all-important replication of experiments is so difficult to accomplish. This part looks at the corresponding situation for engineering research and product assessment. After thinking about the medical-research situation, I compared the issues to those related […]
Will your Good Samaritanism in the pandemic buy you a lawsuit?
Leland Teschler | Executive Editor If you are one of the individuals voluntarily spending your time on technology to help abate the COVID 19 pandemic, consider the experience of the vacuum cleaner company Dyson in the U.K. Company founder James Dyson estimates his firm spent about $25 million and about 10 days to develop a […]
Maxim Integrated accelerates production of essential medical solutions during COVID-19 pandemic
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. has accelerated the production of its medical technologies to address increased customer need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company’s semiconductor devices are used in medical equipment such as virus detection devices, ultrasounds, analytical/laboratory equipment, ventilators, patient remote monitoring devices, intravenous blood monitors, temperature loggers for critical COVID drugs, pulse oximeters, remote […]
Electronics manufacturers hope for normalcy in a few months, says IPC
Though electronics manufacturers remain extremely concerned about the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, just over 40% of them expect business to return to normal this summer. So says IPC, the association representing electronics OEMs, PCB and wiring harness makers, and electronics suppliers. The association reports it has continued to monitor the health of the electronics […]
