San Diego Science Writers Association
By Neil Thompson CAMX came to San Diego, and I was there to take it in. What’s CAMX you ask? It’s the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo, an annual event jointly put on by the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). A SAMPE member …
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By Neil Thompson At the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, an inaugural conference was taking place. It was the IEEE Sustain Tech Leadership Forum, and I was lucky enough to attend. Presented by IEEE’s largest societies (Power and Energy, Communications, Computer, and Signal Processing), the 2-day forum featured a selection of speakers and panels talking …
By Melissa T. Miller The Salk Institute for Biological Studies recently hosted a tour specifically for SANDSWA, thanks to former board members Heather Buschman and Nicole Mlynaryk, who are part of the communications team there. Renowned for its beautiful campus and cutting-edge breakthroughs, and we got to learn more about both during a nearly three-hour …
By Neil Thompson I have a love/hate relationship with Quality. When I worked as an engineer in the medical device industry, Quality might as well have been named the “No” department. I can’t recall the number of times I had to redo filling out a form because it had been revised to a new version. …
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By Niko Komin Last November, coincidentally a couple of days after Twitter was sold to Elon Musk, SANDSWA met in a local brewery and the question came up: should we stay on Twitter or should we go? If we do leave, where would we go? We didn’t delve into alternatives but it kept nagging me. …
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