Engineering Word Of The Day: Recent Episodes
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An informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. Hosted by interdisciplinary engineer Pius Wong, also host of The K12 Engineering Education Podcast. Produced by Pios Labs. Support the podcast by donating to Pius's studio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/pioslabs.
To shrink the number of our faulty counts,
you have to learn how to debounce.
This is Episode 105 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
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Originally published April 16, 2021.
My code is as long as here to Saturn, but condensed and confused in an anti-pattern.
This is Episode 104 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
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Originally published March 26, 2021.
They told me, "Let 'er rip, guy!"
"Tighten up that zip tie!"
This is Episode 103 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
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Originally published January 13, 2021.
The chemical reaction we smell from afar
that gives satisfaction is named Maillard.
This is Episode 102 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
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Originally published January 4, 2021.
Do wooden planks below my feet not splinter while they shift
during monumental bends and strains from interstory drift?
This is Episode 101 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs
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Originally published December 17, 2020.
Mechanical engineers must work
to eliminate excessive jerk.
This is Episode 100 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs
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Originally published December 14, 2020.
Stack your your stones and let walls join
to make an old-school building quoin.
This is Episode 99 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs
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Originally published December 1, 2020.
You might see some programmers scurrying
when trying to implement a little currying.
This is Episode 98 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs
Originally published November 13, 2020.
Every product has flaws and some quirks,
but are products better if they come from skunkworks?
This is Episode 97 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs
Originally published November 5, 2020.
Engineers, don't be shady, eh?
Design it with the ADA.
This is Episode 96 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published October 14, 2020.
Get an engineer and a chiropractor
if you're going to move that bioreactor.
This is Episode 95 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published October 8, 2020.
A real electrical top champ
is the multitalented op amp.
This is Episode 94 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published September 29, 2020.
To prevent your frustration
have good fenestration.
This is Episode 93 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published September 22, 2020.
Materials at their best
will take a lot of stress.
This is Episode 92 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published September 15, 2020.
If I total my car, you see,
I'll just call it an RUD.
This is Episode 91 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published September 10, 2020.
An engineer will feel at home
when surrounded by many an ohm.
This is Episode 90 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
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Originally published September 1, 2020.
To control and steer kinetic energy
is an actuator's ultimate apogee.
This is Episode 89 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published August 7, 2020.
Is there a standard I may have missed?
Time to consult the engineers at NIST.
This is Episode 88 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally created July 19, 2020.
A robot arm may have a prehensile length
that should be tested for its tensile strength!
This is Episode 87 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published March 21, 2020.
You want to prevent catastrophe, eh?
Well, engineers, do FMEA.
This is Episode 86 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published March 20, 2020.
Engineers take a ton of tests. They're thinking: Can I pass it all?
They do, and they build tons of things, and some are made of acetal.
This is Episode 85 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published February 25, 2020.
If you can't decide, and you're on the fence, get knocked right off, by some resonance.
This is Episode 84 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published February 18, 2020.
Ah, potentiometers. So much potential use, right?
This is Episode 83 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
*Note: To be more specific, current is a flow of charge. But a flow of electrons is close enough for a lot of engineers.
Originally published February 11, 2020.
If your client calls a centimeter a "sontimeter," I'll assume they're medical and you've got a leader.
This is Episode 82 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published February 7, 2020.
Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS subsystem of the atomic clock. Hugo was one of four recipients of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, along with Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Professor James Spilker, and Richard Schwartz.
Related to this episode:
• Hugo’s website: hugofruehauf.com/
• Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering: qeprize.org/
This is Episode 81 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines. This is also a co-production of The K12 Engineering Education Podcast: https://k12engineering.net/
This challenge will not tackle us; we'll tackle it, we'll win, this calculus.
This is Episode 80 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published November 11, 2019.
That frog is not frenetic; it floats and is diamagnetic. This is Episode 79 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published September 20, 2019.
Engineers, unite! Harness the power of perovskite. This is Episode 78 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Cover art by Cadmium at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2527511
Originally published July 29, 2019.
It's the real MVP of simplifying user interfaces in some programming languages these days. This is Episode 77 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published May 1, 2019.
I like my definitions to be CRISPR and clearer. This is Episode 76 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published April 2, 2019.
Messing with this gas of a word isn't ideal. This is Episode 75 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published March 15, 2018.
Programming programs to program their own programs. This is Episode 74 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published February 25, 2019.
One is fun, and zero is a hero, in our engineering programming languages. This is Episode 73 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published October 18, 2018.
Whip your brain into shape by studying trochoidal things.This is Episode 72 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published August 17, 2018.
Let's take a crack at this jargon from quality and reliability engineering (but don't crack your products). This is Episode 71 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published September 9, 2018.
Keep your data streams from going helter skelter with the help of a Kalman filter. This is Episode 70 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published August 1, 2018.
Forget to get your tare, and you might shed a tear. This is Episode 69 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published July 11, 2018.
I tried ceramic glazing / The result was quite amazing / When I saw it cool / I touched not a tool / The surface showed cracks and crazing. ***This is Episode 68 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
June 26, 2018.
Always think positive, unless you're doing negative testing. This is Episode 67 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published June 19, 2018.
She thought it was very fancy of her / to separate the two enantiomers / She looked in the mirror / It couldn't be clearer / The left one was better and handsomer. ***This is Episode 66 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published June 11, 2018.
Stop everything! We've hit a breakpoint, and things are gonna get dicey. This is Episode 65 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published May 28, 2018.
If you have some metal, in a pot or a kettle, on this you can trust: over time it'll rust. This is Episode 64 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published May 22, 2018.
If I read through a thousand invention patents, I hope I'd learn something, too. This is Episode 63 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published May 7, 2018.
If you can resist concentrated attack and damage, maybe you've got some engineer-level hardness. This is Episode 62 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published April 23, 2018.
Cool as a cucumber curved with quite the camber. This is Episode 61 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published April 12, 2018.
Engineers who study this know how to rub you the right way. This is Episode 60 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.
Originally published April 2, 2018.
Picture this: a lightning bolt shoots out about 10 gigawatts of power. Subscribe today: www.engineeringwordoftheday.com
Originally published March 18, 2018.
Let's take a poll. Who knows what this engineering word means?
Originally published February 26, 2018.
Have you heard our GNU software engineering word of the day?
Originally published February 13, 2018.
For those situations when you just can't let go.
Originally published February 5, 2018.
Why Would Somebody Insist We Yank Goats? That's not what WYSIWYG stands for.
Originally published January 28, 2018.
Submitting a 510(k) might be like saying you're qualified for college because your fraternal twin is already there.
Originally published January 22, 2018.
The delicious flavor of 0% manufacturing defect rate can come from fresh poka-yoke.
Originally published January 7, 2018.
New year, new Engineering Word Of The Day. Or in this case, new acronym of the day, standing for "new product development".
Originally published January 2, 2018.
Grow, make, and eat your own dogfood -- I mean products.
Originally published November 28, 2017.
Keep your hands clean when you write professional publications.
Originally published October 31, 2017.
This podcast is aiming to avoid being aural dross.
Originally published October 24, 2017.
It's not a power ballad by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it's not a burrito chain. What is it? The question floods me with curiosity.
Originally published October 7, 2017.
If only we could be sparging all our troubles away...
Originally published October 4, 2017.
Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?
Originally published September 30, 2017.
Discussing a cascade of styles all over the sheets.
Originally published September 27, 2017.
And a heliotrope used to describe a flower that turns toward the sun.
Originally published September 16, 2017.
One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?
Originally published September 9, 2017.
It's customer-centered design versus blue sky design. Who will win?
Originally published August 23, 2017.
When astronomical data becomes hard to pronounce.
Originally published August 19, 2017.
Sia's new music video for "Viscoelastic Heart" is pretty weird.
Originally published August 16, 2017.
A tool for pirates navigating the oceans, and more, yarrr...
Originally published August 12, 2017.
When you're almost done designing something, do you start to feel very sensitive?
Originally published August 5, 2017.
Acronyms galore! The UTC defines UNC and UNF standards in the USA. Oof.
Originally published July 29, 2017.
Both a target and a tool of biomedical engineering nowadays.
Originally published July 26, 2017.
You use it to help design devices that end up in more than your kitchen.
Originally published July 19, 2017.
Special guest engineer an business consultant Pat Sweet, P.Eng., joins the EWOTD podcast for another episode to talk about the important concept of "verification". This is Part 2 of two episodes.
Originally published July 15, 2017.
Engineering and business consultant Pat Sweet, P.Eng., guests on today's podcast. You can find him over at "Engineering and Leadership" on the web: www.engineeringandleadership.com
Originally published July 12, 2017.
Is there a program called Matt Daemon that secretly translates everything you say around your computer into a Boston accent?
Originally published July 5, 2017.
No, it's not an alternative slang form of "tap that," but it is a part that really gets us going. See Chysler's 1950's explanation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x6PIqXqLlk
Originally published July 1, 2017.
Not just a murderer, folks, as automotive engineers and technologists know.
Originally published June 24, 2017.
Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.
Originally published June 21, 2017.
Not to be confused with biological polymorphism, polymorphism in programming languages can add robustness to your engineering code.
Originally published June 7, 2017.
Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?
Originally published June 3, 2017.
SWE wants to "stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders," among other goals.
Originally published May 31, 2017.
Discussing the "Wronskian" of differential equations.
Originally published May 24, 2017
Explaining the collaborative idea generation technique of brainwriting.
Originally published May 20, 2017
They told me, "Let 'er rip, guy!""Tighten up that zip tie!"This is Episode 103 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.Support the show on Patreon:...
The chemical reaction we smell from afarthat gives satisfaction is named Maillard.This is Episode 102 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.Support...
Do wooden planks below my feet not splinter while they shiftduring monumental bends and strains from interstory drift?This is Episode 101 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in...
Mechanical engineers must workto eliminate excessive jerk.This is Episode 100 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.Support the show on Patreon:...
Stack your your stones and let walls join to make an old-school building quoin.This is Episode 99 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.Support the...
You might see some programmers scurryingwhen trying to implement a little currying.This is Episode 98 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering disciplines.Support...
Every product has flaws and some quirks,but are products better if they come from skunkworks?This is Episode 97 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phrases used in various engineering...