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Santa Workshop Contest

Santa’s Workshop Wonders Engineering Troubleshooting Contest

Santa’s Workshop Wonders Engineering Troubleshooting Contest

Contest Rules

Contest Rules

Six Rules for EEs from Seal Team 6

Six Rules for EEs from Seal Team 6

From the tried-and-true KISS approach to taking risks, Lou Frenzel sees parallels between some of the principles followed by Seal Team 6 and the engineering world.

Treat Yourself with a Compilation of Real-World Troubleshooting Tales this Halloween

Treat Yourself with a Compilation of Real-World Troubleshooting Tales this Halloween

From a misguided missile guidance system to a phantom bug in an emulator tool, engineers share how they worked good magic to troubleshoot and fix a problem.

WW11 corporate missile launcher

A Spell to Correct Erroneous Missile Tracking Data

A radar tracking system for a guided missile goes haywire and all the usual troubleshooting measures turn up nothing.

Elevated Starboard Bow View Samuel B Roberts

A Spell to Reanimate a Frigate's Disabled Communications System

A “fire” onboard a guided missile frigate provides clues to what felled all communications from HF to UHF.

Screen shot of Replay TV user interface

A Spell to Cast Out Audio-Video Sync Problems

Halloween contest

Double, Double, Toil and Troubleshooting: Share Your Worst (Best?) Example of Diagnosing a Technical Glitch & You Could Win $500

Connected Devices Boot Camp

Electronic Design Connect Live Event Transitions into 3-Week Online “Connected Devices Boot Camp"

Electronic Design Sweepstakes Rules

MDTX

PCB Capabilities Roam the MDTX Show Floor

One of the companies that took part in the MDTX exhibition demonstrated how it can satisfy all types of printed-circuit-board requirements.

Science Fair—The Movie

Science Fair—The Movie

Science Fair is a National Geographic documentary about students who competed in a recent Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

FreeTheTech Finds 5,784 Inventions Suppressed by U.S. Government Secrecy Orders

FreeTheTech Finds 5,784 Inventions Suppressed by U.S. Government Secrecy Orders

The organization is looking to spread awareness of the suppression and bring greater transparency by creating a citizen review panel to assess the classified patents.

Can You Be an EE Without a Degree?

Can You Be an EE Without a Degree?

Jobs are out there to be had, but if you don’t have a certain type of degree, it’s very unlikely you’ll land one. Lou Frenzel says it’s high time to look beyond that vaunted piece...