Engineering design has a lot of nuances and caveats. This podcast discusses those and a few side tracks from time to time. Brought to you by the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand
We continue the new format being trialled where the design courses are reporting on current progress, points of interest, expected and unexpected behaviours and design. Old format not gone, just on hiatus. Hosted by W. Dharmalingum and S. Schekman on 7 April 2026
We continue the new format being trialled where the design courses are reporting on current progress, points of interest, expected and unexpected behaviours and design. Old format not gone, just on hiatus. Hosted by W. Dharmalingum and S. Schekman on 7 April 2026
We continue the new format being trialled where the design courses are reporting on current progress, points of interest, expected and unexpected behaviours and design. Old format not gone, just on hiatus. Hosted by W. Dharmalingum and S. Schekman on 3 March 2026
In a new format being trialled the design courses are reporting on current progress, points of interest, expected and unexpected behaviours and design. Old format not gone, just on hiatus. Hosted by W. Dharmalingum and S. Schekman on 3 March 2026
Honestly does that title not make you want to listen? I really doubt anything else I would say would help any more than that. We could highlight that for the past 32 episodes I have embedded a low frequency pulse that if passed through a fourier transform and converted to hexidecimal provided the answers to the machine elements and dynamics exams in full. Does that help? Well it might if it were…
Billy! As in Billy the kid, get it? Because all students are just kids? No? Anyway... Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on some date in the year (26 Nov 2025 to be precise)
Are we a bit unsettled lately? Has the year finally gotten to us? Are we seriously considering fruit as an example for sports? Probably, seems perfectly normal to me to be honest. Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 5 Nov 2025
This episode was based on the following clip: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1o0jcv7/the_golden_gate_zipper_moving_the_middle_barrier/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 5 Nov 2025
I'm beginning to believe that Boer is simply bored and purposefully setting up these incidents. Anyway this time we were somewhat more repaired. Note that despite having both Jeremy and Bert there, we didn't once consider having them involved - that is how useful they are. I'm not complaining necessarily but wow are they not contributing to this whole toast programme we have going on. Seriously,…
Who doesn't want a dinosaur skeleton collection? But at the same time who wants to wait that unnecessary amount of time to have them dug out the ground? So you know there is one in the ground, now get it out. Now. Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 1 October 2025