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Best Architectural Engineering Tools

Architects are known for their work designing and planning structures and buildings. Architectural engineering is the design of all building systems, ranging from electrical/lighting, mechanical, construction, acoustical, and structural among others. Whether you are an architect, or an architectural engineer, you will be tasked with designing the buildings of tomorrow. Therefore, you will need a […]

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HALT Testing (Highly Accelerated Life Testing)

Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) refers to a reliability testing technique that aims to expose the weaknesses of a product. The main objective is to expose the product to incremental stresses, in order to discover flaws and defects. A HALT test must be conducted during the early stages of the product design process. HALT was

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5 of the Most Interesting Updates in Solidworks 2020

Solidworks releases a new version of their software every year without fail. And every year there is an impressive lineup of new and exciting features that improve productivity and add new possibilities to this powerhouse of the computer-aided design industry. Below is a list of 5 of the more impressive features in Solidworks 2020. Also,

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Top 10 Most Innovative Products of All Time – what are yours?

You could argue that the world today is full of innovative products which literally changed lives. We see new services and products rolled out on a regular basis but sometimes we overlook products which were innovative at the time beyond recognition. Our list of the top 10 most innovative products may look like a blast

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Unique Engineering Materials

4 Unique Engineering Materials you have never heard of

Metals, plastic, ceramics, and composites are used by engineers every day. We all know common properties like; metals are strong but heavy, plastics are lighter and ceramics can shatter. But mechanical and material engineers have been developing new engineering materials to solve problems with amazing ingenuity. New designs are born from biomimicry, experimentation and sometimes

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Basic Product Design Steps

Product design is the process of creating a new product from scratch. Typically, product design follows one of two processes: forward engineering or reverse engineering. In forward engineering the designer designs a new product completely from scratch. In reverse engineering the designer upgrades or simply copies an existing product into a new product. We’ll focus

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Solving the unsolvable: Alex Jones, product design consultant

Welcome to the first in a new series of articles, where we get inside the heads of successful and highly talented mechanical engineers and industrial designers, and really find out what makes them tick. In this article engineeringclicks.com talks to Alex Jones, Director of award winning design consultancy, Cambridge Industrial Design. Alex graduated in 1994 with

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