You've burnt your toast and now need to decide what to do with it. Do you start over, get a new piece of bread and crack on or do you dust off the burnt pieces and spread that butter? Alternatively if you keep burning the toast maybe just get a new toaster.

Hosted by M. Boer, S. Schekman and C. Schulte-Brader on 28th Feb 2020

Designing something outside your comfort zone is inevitable. It comes down to a confidence in your skills and breaking things down to what you know. Also you can remember that if ever uncomfortable when undertaking a design just imagine all the information as being naked. Apparently that will help.  

Hosted by M. Boer, S. Schekman and C Schulte-Brader on 28th Feb 2020

It's not that you are lazy, it's not you. It's me. I'm not Lazy. 

Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman

Infinite staplers and stealth coffee mugs. These are the solutions that design provides, it is the duty of the design engineer to know when to say "no." 

Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 21st Feb 2020.

I would think you can imagine the list of what we don't lecture is quite extensive but specifically we are focusing on those topics that are relevant to the design process and design methodologies. So if you are here for bear hibernation habits or an indepth discussion on your nasal cavaties then you may be a little disapointed and likely also listening to the wrong podcast.

Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 14th Feb 2020

Whether painting a cargo ship, "square" lecture theatre or a piece of toast, you need to run the numbers. Having said that, we in no way condone the literal painting and subsequent consumption of toast.... unless you have edible paint. Although what is the difference between edible paint and standard sandwich spread? Define edible. Define spread. Define toast and then eat it.

We may need a new toaster but the crumbs are still there...

Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on the 7th Feb 2020

Getting distracted in design can have large ramifications in terms of did you know that human eye has an angular resolution 0.01667 degrees? And that can make things confusing. 

Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 7th Feb 2020

Are mech's better than aero's? Would the average ground temperature near a volcano cause the coefficient of friction to increase with increasing hill gradient or would the ratio of air in the atmosphere be noticeably lower such that aerodynamic drag can be ignored? Preposterous questions you might think but would a mech or an aero give you a better answer?

On a side note, we discuss mission planning in a mech project context. Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on the 31st January 2020.

Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Hmmm. Yeah. Anything. Ya. Ya. Exactly Ja! Hmmhmmm. Ja. Yeah. Hmmm. Okay. Okay. Kay....... I need a better script.

Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 31st January 2020