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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Clip from "SXSW Live: Podcasting and Lesson Design", latest episode of The K12 Engineering Education Podcast.

Picture this: a lightning bolt shoots out about 10 gigawatts of power. Subscribe today: www.engineeringwordoftheday.com

Wish I handled the dishes in real time, too.

A preview of The K12 Engineering Education Podcast, Season 3, Episode 3: "Engineering 101". Learn more at: www.k12engineering.net

A preview of The K12 Engineering Education Podcast, Season 3, Episode 2. Learn more at: www.k12engineering.net

Quarter for your thoughts about quaternions?

Let's take a poll. Who knows what this engineering word means?

A preview of The K12 Engineering Education Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1. Learn more at: www.k12engineering.net

Have you heard our GNU software engineering word of the day?

For those situations when you just can't let go.

Why Would Somebody Insist We Yank Goats? That's not what WYSIWYG stands for.

Submitting a 510(k) might be like saying you're qualified for college because your fraternal twin is already there.

The delicious flavor of 0% manufacturing defect rate can come from fresh poka-yoke.

New year, new Engineering Word Of The Day. Or in this case, new acronym of the day, standing for "new product development".

As amazing as hexadiagonal flamshooter energy.

Not a doodie cycle, but a duty cycle.

Grow, make, and eat your own dogfood -- I mean products.

This is not normal.

Upskill your team without killing the mood.

Organize your to-do list efficiently!

Keep your hands clean when you write professional publications.

This podcast is aiming to avoid being aural dross.

Let's have a détente over detents.

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.

If only we could be sparging all our troubles away...

Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?

Discussing a cascade of styles all over the sheets.

And a heliotrope used to describe a flower that turns toward the sun.

Why doesn't solder rhyme with older?

One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?

How are isomers like ice cream?

It's the OG OEM.

Trying not to talk in circles here.

I'm orthogonal, and I've never felt so right.

It's customer-centered design versus blue sky design. Who will win?

When astronomical data becomes hard to pronounce.

Sia's new music video for "Viscoelastic Heart" is pretty weird.

A tool for pirates navigating the oceans, and more, yarrr...

Not just telephone operators, folks!

When you're almost done designing something, do you start to feel very sensitive?

Don't you dare impede my learning.

Acronyms galore! The UTC defines UNC and UNF standards in the USA. Oof.

Both a target and a tool of biomedical engineering nowadays.

Another design buzzword? Or important field? Both?

You use it to help design devices that end up in more than your kitchen.

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.

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: http://www.engineeringandleadership.com

Atomic poetry in the electron cloud model.

Is there a program called Matt Daemon that secretly translates everything you say around your computer into a Boston accent?

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x6PIqXqLlk

Is being a brogrammer a good thing?

Not just a murderer, folks, as automotive engineers and technologists know.

Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.

How is an autogyro different from a helicopter?

All hail and all fear the magic smoke!

Describing revolute joints.

Not to be confused with biological polymorphism, polymorphism in programming languages can add robustness to your engineering code.

Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?

SWE wants to "stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders," among other goals.

Talking about eutectic points of solid mixtures.

Discussing the "Wronskian" of differential equations.

Explaining the collaborative idea generation technique of brainwriting.

Engineering Word Of The Day: iterate