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Men of Steel

How do you pull a stuck 6-inch diameter hardened steel pivot pin out of a million-pound navigational lock gate when you are out in the field? This is the kind of challenge we live for at Altman Browning. Most days, I work at our office doing design and analysis, but sometimes, as the Engineer of …

Mentoring the Next Generation

I once took a class in precision machine design taught by MIT mechanical engineering professor Alexander Slocum. He was very free with offering up his knowledge and I especially enjoyed it when he referred to the world’s shared engineering knowledge base as “The Borg.” He wasn’t wrong. Teaching and passing on knowledge is a cornerstone of engineering. …

Loving Infrastructure

As I have said before, I really enjoy the opportunity that client site visits afford my love of machine design. Job walks at dams and other facilities allow me to be around amazing industrial machinery. When you are inside a power house at a dam on the Columbia River system, you look up 60 feet at …

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