From the electronics enthusiasts to the professional community -- "Ask an Engineer" has a little bit of everything for everyone.
If you're a beginner, or an seasoned engineer -- see what Limor Fried and Phillip Torrone are up to! They have demos of projects and products they're working on, and they answer the audience's engineering and electronics questions.
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Limor Fried
Limor Fried is an engineer, artist & hacker. She received her M.Eng in EECS from MIT where she developed and built subversive electronic devices, including a pair of glasses that darken whenever television is in view and a jamming device that disables people's annoying cell phone conversations at the press of a button.
Phillip Torrone is an author, artist, and engineer and is senior editor of MAKE. He is also the Keeper of the Blog on Makezine.com. He has authored and contributed to numerous books on programming, mobile devices, design, multimedia, and hardware hacking; he regularly writes for Popular Science. His projects have appeared in Wired, Popular Science, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, G4TechTV, NPR, and elsewhere.
Torrone also produces the MAKE audio and video content on the Makezine.com site.
Prior to MAKE, Torrone was director of Product Development for creative firm Fallon Worldwide, best known for their award-winning work on BMW Films.
Professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature to the uses of humankind. Engineering is based principally on physics, chemistry, and mathematics and their extensions into materials science, solid and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, transfer and rate processes, and systems analysis. A great body of special knowledge is associated with engineering; preparation for professional practice involves extensive training in the application of that knowledge. Engineers employ two types of natural resources, materials and energy. Materials acquire uses that reflect their properties: their strength, ease of fabrication, lightness, or durability; their ability to insulate or conduct; and their chemical, electrical, or acoustical properties. Important sources of energy include fossil fuels (coal, petroleum, gas), wind, sunlight, falling water, and nuclear fission. See alsoaerospace engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering. genetic engineering, mechanical engineering, military engineering.
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