A letter from a reader posted on the recent CAD/CAM e-newsletter about ''what's wrong with young engineers?'' provoked a flurry of responses. Here are the comments:    * Great commentary. Looking at the last statement: ''At the risk of sounding nostalgic, maybe there is a need for ''the good-old-days'' skills when we used our minds, ...

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Lynn Manning of the Parker Group writes: what an adventure!  I was unaware that was what you were up to… The size of that event was stupendous.  And yes, those long flights are killers.  We lived in Tokyo for seven years and I must say the jet lag on vacation trips back to the U.S. just seemed to get worse with every passing year. ...

One company we interviewed today at the CMEF show here in Schenzen, China was the Perlong Group, which manufactures analog and digital X-ray imaging equipment. Most of the company's sales are in China and it does not yet have CE and FDA approvals to target the European and U.S. markets. According to the company, it started exhibiting at the event ...

Breakfast for me consisted of vegtables, corn-on-the-cob, and ''sticky rice'' which comes wrapped in a leaf and parchment paper. This morning we attended the opening ceremonies for the 61'st annual CMEF event currently being held in Schenzen, China. The event is completely international, with exhibitors and attendees from all over the ...

Yesterday's blog item discusses live the first leg of my trip to Schenzen, China, to attend the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF). The flight from Newark, N.J. to Beijing was about 15 hours long (7,000-odd miles). I had to figure out how to catch a shuttle bus to Terminal #3 in Bejiing and although the bus I got on ...

I'm waiting at the Cleveland, Ohio airport for a flight to Newark, N.J. and from there on to Beijing, China. Final destination Shenzhen, China to attend the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) held April 18 to 21. According to the CMEF Web site, the event, founded in 1979, is now the largest exhibition of medical equipment, ...

We spent yesterday learning about new features and advancements in Autodesk's 2010 products: First, the developer stresses how well its programs work together to provide a digital prototype which acts as a master model and lets engineers work concurrently on a design during product development. According to the company, Inventor 2010, AutoCAD, ...

I'm attending Autodesk Manufacturing Tech Day in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Just got back from the welcoming dinner at Oba Restaurante in Portland with the rest of the group of technical media and bloggers. Portland stikes me as such a clean city. It is a small city but has lots of neat stuff: parks galore, sidewalk cafes, flowers, ...

Social-networking tools allow for more free-for-all communication than traditional publishing methods because users can quickly and creatively collaborate. But — interesting conundrums can arise. For example, what would you think if you are using something like Twitter, and a competitor of the organization you work for starts ...