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Know Before you Tow: Essential Safety Checks When Hooking Up Your Trailer

Engineering

Hooking up your Trailer can be a dangerous job if proper safety precautions are not taken. Before towing, make sure that your vehicle and trailer maintenance is up-to-date, and that you check the following each time you hook your trailer up. Photo 1: Trailer coupling...

Engineering Standards Buckling Under Americans Ever Increasing Weight Gain

Engineering

Standards are commonly used in engineering design. Some standards are legal requirements while others are consensus or voluntary standards. There are a number of organizations that provide standards including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),...

Expert Opinion: Just Because It Can Be Done Without Injury Does Not Mean It Is Safe

Engineering

As a mechanical engineer who works in equipment design safety, I sometimes get involved in lawsuits where injuries occur while equipment is being used.  Usually in the roll of an expert witness. One question that I am often asked in one form or another during...

Expert Opinion: No, Ma’am! The Swing Set was NOT Vandalized

Engineering

Recently, there was a big hullabaloo in my neighborhood regarding the swings in the park maintained by our HOA.  Someone posted a picture on our neighborhood Facebook page showing two of the swings hanging by only one chain. As you might imagine, the neighborhood...

Red Sky in the Morning Sailors Take Warning – What Warning Signs are You Ignoring?

Engineering

Warning Signs to be Aware of in Machinery and Maintenance The old adage: “Red sky at night sailor’s delight, Red sky in the morning sailor take warning.” has been around in one form or another for thousands of years (Matthew 16:2-3).  This was a well understood sign...

How to Make Money Inventing… Without Going Broke First

Engineering

Congratulations!  You think you came up with a new, multi million-dollar idea… But you want to be sure… I met with an inventor not too long ago, who told me about his idea for a new gardening tool that he was really excited about. We went over what he had...
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