Bottom line: you don’t get paid, if you don’t show earned value. Usually earned value is done during key milestone such as: preliminary design review (PDR), critical design review (CDR), test readiness review (TRR), first article. In the real world you will see management pushing on holding key milestone reviews, since its associated with invoicing […]
Anytime you present data, it should be done with the intent of providing as much information as possible with the goal of preemptively answering questions the viewer might have. Margins should be reported in tables and then supported with imagery. An expected image is the fringe plot of stress, strain, or perhaps deflection. This image […]
“FEA is for insight, not numbers” was the quote on the inside cover of the student guide for I-DEAS. I found out 15 years later that it was a misquote from Dr. Hamming, but that research led me to one of the great finds of my professional development. Learning to Learn is a 31 part […]
Practical Finite Element Analysis, Finite to Infinite, 2008. I had always planned on writing a textbook on this subject because I hadn’t found one that was any good, but then I found someone had already done it in India. This book is hard to find, I found my copy while browsing the Tata Bookshop in […]