Pritchard Francis

ENGINEERING TECH

PCA | April 12, 2021

Portland Cement Association (PCA) Market Intelligence Group's Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Ed Sullivan as of late introduced their yearly Spring concrete utilization figure, foreseeing an increment in concrete utilization for 2021 and 2022. "Remarkably, U.S. cement consumption recorded 2% growth during 2020. It is remarkable because COVID-19 exerted a terrible toll on the economy. Consumers bunkered down; states enacted rigid lockdowns. Real GDP declined to a...

Phys.org | March 09, 2020

A research group led by Simone Fabiano at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, has created an organic material with superb conductivity that doesn't need to be doped. They have achieved this by mixing two polymers with different properties. In order to increase the conductivity of polymers, and in this way obtain higher efficiency in organic solar cells, light-emitting diodes and other bioelectronic applications, researchers have until now doped the material with...

EDUCATION

Toptal | January 20, 2022

Toptal, which operates a curated network of highly-skilled freelance talent with business, design, and technology expertise that allows companies to scale their teams on-demand, released its latest e-book, Architecting Scalable Engineering Teams. The publication features insights from engineering leaders at five fast-growing companies into how they structure, manage, and grow their teams. For many CTOs and directors of engineering, building scalable and successful software enginee...

Interesting Engineering | April 07, 2020

Since the invention of CAD software, mechanical design has been revolutionized to its core. However, there are quite a lot of things about the process that are rather rudimentary. We still have to manually input constraints for parts that may seem obvious. We can still make one minor mistake that can corrupt our whole model. Software is becoming smarter and smarter, but for the most part, the mechanical engineer is still where the innovation and the skill lies. What happens though, when programs...