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Poll: Engineers Week (Feb 17-23, 2019): What Cool Things You Are doing in Your Engineering Career?

Founded in 1951, Engineers Week (February 17–23, 2019) is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.Today, EWeek is a formal coalition of more than 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies, and more than 50 corporations and government agencies.

 

In honor of Engineers Week, I thought I'd start a discussion/poll on what cool things our Engineers are doing in their daily work lives.

 

So, if you want to contribute, please select the industry you are in, and then offer a brief comment on what you are doing.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago +11
    We make counter-terrorism products like robots and bomb suits. Our bomb suits include the most sophisticated wearable electronics suite ever produced and the next generation will have far more electronics…
  • DAB
    DAB over 7 years ago +10
    I am working with a small start up to use multispectral sensing to support agriculture. We are currently using modified GoPro cameras with special filters to use with spectral algorithms for crop health…
  • ntewinkel
    ntewinkel over 7 years ago +8
    I'm building and maintaining the iOS app for the world's first video smart lock: www.getgate.com -Nico
  • koudelad
    koudelad over 7 years ago

    I currently work as manufacturing analyst at a company producing vehicle tracking units. My first job that allows me to be close to development of electronic devices (I used to work in IT before).

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 7 years ago

    Application integration lead for an American company.

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  • gpolder
    gpolder over 7 years ago in reply to DAB

    Hi DAB,

     

    I'm highly interested, as I'm in spectral imaging research in agriculture, can you give some pointers?

     

    Gerrit.

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  • gpolder
    gpolder over 7 years ago

    I have now opted for Agriculture, but Research is an equally good choice, because I am in agricultural research.

    I mainly work with (hyper) spectral imaging systems, for example for measuring fruit quality and detection of plant diseases.

    My education as an electronics engineer helps me a lot when it comes to building image acquisition equipment.

    In my spare time I play as a The specified item was not found. with RF electronics and The specified item was not found.

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  • fmilburn
    fmilburn over 7 years ago

    I am a retired mechanical engineer but when I was a "real engineer" my specialty was thermodynamics and multiphase fluid behavior.  Early in my career I developed FORTRAN models in a research facility.  By the time I retired I had moved on to project management of the design and construction of large process plants.  I got interested in electronics as a way to keep my brain active, learn something new, and do something with the grandkids.

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    DAB over 7 years ago

    I am working with a small start up to use multispectral sensing to support agriculture.

    We are currently using modified GoPro cameras with special filters to use with spectral algorithms for crop health and other issues.

     

    DAB

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  • ntewinkel
    ntewinkel over 7 years ago

    I'm building and maintaining the iOS app for the world's first video smart lock:

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    www.getgate.com

     

    -Nico

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    kk99 over 7 years ago

    I worked for few years in TV/RADIO service. Now I am working as embedded systems software developer. We make software for IPTV/OTT/DVB set-top boxes.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago

    We make counter-terrorism products like robots and bomb  suits. Our bomb suits include the most sophisticated wearable electronics suite ever produced and the next generation will have far more electronics.

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  • genebren
    genebren over 7 years ago

    I am a retired engineer that does some consulting in electronics design (PCB, electronics, firmware....).  Throughout my career, I worked in a wider variety of industries (aerospace, military. test equipment, chemical, banking, research, consumer eletronics.....), so this again may have been a good candidate for a multiple choice voting.

     

    Gene

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