There’s a neat video showing how forged car wheels are made at Rays Manufacturing. Click through to the rest of this post to see it.
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When you’ve grown weary of sitting in front of the computer and your growling stomach leads you to the kitchen, you might want to check out the website Cooking for Engineers. As cooking sites go, it really is a nice one for engineers to read. One nice feature is the table at the end of the recipes that lays out the ingredients and tasks in a gant-chart-like timeline. Oh, and as far as TV goes, Good Eats is far and away the best cooking show for engineers!

Managing people is certainly not an east task, there’s just so much more to it than completing a job. A good manager will be able to create a project team that is efficient and independent, which in turn will make the manager’s job easier. So, what does it take? That’s the million dollar question, and really can’t be answered quickly (but keep an eye on Project Management Source for tips and tricks). If you’d like a ‘cliff notes’ summary, go check out this list of ‘101 ways to prevent your office from hating you.’ I would *hope* that it’s all common sense, but my experience in the workplace tells me otherwise, that to many mangers, the ideas presented here will seem foreign.
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Makezine, for those of you who don’t know, is a publication focused on those who link to tinker, who like to just build (err, MAKE) things in their spare time. It’s a great read for engineering minds; their website is worth checking out too. Anyway, they posted their ‘Maker’s Bill of Rights’, and while I believe this is more geared towards the hobbyist, I feel the guidelines here are great for any good product designer to follow. Click through to the rest of this post to read a small version of it, or download a PDF here.
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