Solidworks has many shortcuts and options built-in which drastically reduce the amount of clicking and menu operations required for drafting. However, I’ve been surprised to see some experienced engineers and drafters don’t [..]

When I started at Erdos Miller, I did LabVIEW development for clients. One day, my boss asked how I would feel about doing a firmware project. I didn’t have any experience with firmware development but was up for the [..]

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We have come a long way in computer programming over our history. There was a time when we inputted data into our refrigerator sized computers with holes punched into paper cards. Obviously, our tools for coding and [..]

Oil is a resource that is of particular interest to every reasonably-organized faction of humanity.

My first days as an MWD field tech I heard horror stories surrounding what is commonly referred to as “pump noise”. I quickly identified the importance of learning to properly identify this “noise”. From the way it was [..]