Safety must be an engineer’s primary concern, both for the sake of expensive equipment and the priceless lives of those who use it. Please read some of blogs we have written on the topic of safety.
New-car buyers are faced with the prospect of their ride being equipped with a greater amount of safety technology than ever before.
New technology in Hurricane Flood/Wind Issues are helping with predicting the severity and where exactly they will hit.
Wind Load Comparison between CFD and ASCE 7 for Rooftop shapes Welcome back to our blog series on the phenomenon called Wind Load CFD Modeling and how it affects civil and mechanical engineers. Wind Load is the force that blowing wind exerts on any device or structure that extends above ground level. After an initial introduction to the factors that affect wind load on an object, I compared three different sets of wind load calculation methods using three simple objects, hypothetically placed on a 100-foot-tall building. Starting with generic drag equation for the first equation, added two modification coefficients [...]
Fig. 1 Tall Fire from Chemical We have written about pyrophoric materials in a number of Glew Engineering’s previous blogs on safety in semiconductor fabrication, but have yet to cover how to define it or its danger. At its simplest, a pyrophoric substance is any substance that spontaneously ignites in room temperature air. As one might imagine, spontaneous combustion on contact with the regular atmosphere we live in can be quite dangerous. Last year, Glew Engineering assisted a research lab in designing a safe gas distribution system for their plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition chamber. During the initial work, the building administrators and [...]
An article on pressure transducers used in semiconductor fabs and semiconductor equipment.
Pressure gauges and pressure transducer use in semiconductor fabs.
An overview of the design and use of flow restrictors in semiconductor processes.
Devices for regulating gas pressure in semiconductor processes.
Valve specification and design for high purity semiconductor equipment.
Fail safe hardware interlocks in semiconductor processing equipment.
Mechanical engineering for high-purity processes in semiconductor fabs: gas distribution lines for transporting hazardous gases and materials.
Mechanical engineering design for high-purity processes in semiconductor fabs: process pumps, abatement and exhaust lines.
Mechanical engineering design for high-purity processes in semiconductor fabs: gas cabinets, liquid sources and valve manifold boxes.
Introduction to our blog series on the complexities of mechanical engineering design for high-purity gas panels in semiconductor fabrication.
Applying agile and lean development principles to mechanical engineering.
Engineering project management and the importance of the Engineering Specification
Collaborative Robots Making a New Workplace Paradigm.
A discussion of G. Pascal Zachary's article on engineering heroes and the need for them in today's society.
Magnesium chloride can replace cadmium chloride in the thin film solar cell process.
Removing protons and electrons in the Van Allen belts could improve safety for astronauts and satellites.
