Professor Michael Dickey: Prophet of Gallium Liquid Metals
Folks, North Carolina State’s Professor Michael Dickey is arguably the world expert on applications of liquid gallium metal. See his Tedx Talk a...
Folks, North Carolina State’s Professor Michael Dickey is arguably the world expert on applications of liquid gallium metal. See his Tedx Talk a...
Folks, North Carolina State’s Professor Michael Dickey is arguably the world expert on applications of liquid gallium metal. See his Tedx T...
Folks, I recently posted that circular apertures deliver much less solder past than square apertures. One of the obvious reasons is that a circle of d...
Folks, Soldering is one of the oldest technologies developed by humankind, perhaps as long as 6,000 years ago. Early uses were in the making of jewelr...
Folks, Solder paste is arguably one of the most highly engineered materials. What is usually called solder paste “flux” is a combination o...
Folks, Recently, I posted a derivation of the equations to determine the mass fractions of two metals in a binary alloy. I thought it may be help...
Folks, I was surprised to see the wrong formula for metal alloy density calculations on YouTube. The wrong (Eq. 1) and correct (Eq. 2) formulas ...
Folks, In my last post, I shared about an Excel®-based software tool called Line Balancer™ to help candidates for SMTA Certification prepare...
Folks, I recently developed some Excel®-based software to help those who are planning to take the SMTA certification exam to practice. Software to...
Folks, some years ago I created a software tool, StencilCoach™, to calculate the stencil parameters to provide for an adequate amount of so...
Folks, Over ten years ago, I created the characters Patty and The Professor. The intent was to tell SMT assembly process improvement stories through t...
Folks, One of the great advantages of being a professor at Dartmouth College is working with the world’s best young students. However, Emily Dea...