Dog sledding as a model for team management

Miscellaneous Musings from the Technical Director
I am not about to cast myself as a business “self-help” guru. Those guys crack me up. If they had the business savvy to be successful, why are they flogging “how-to-succeed-in-business” books and audio tapes. They are good at selling books and tapes, but I’m not sure how much one [...]

Congratulations, Stephanie!

Many of our loyal customers have known Stephanie McArdle for many years. Perhaps you have followed her reports of travel and activities in these blog pages. Well, we are extremely pleased and proud to congratulate Stephanie on her recent marriage. Her new husband, Dylan, is a great guy (and an engineer – so what’s not [...]

HydroComp engineer completes marathon

By Vin Puleo – Project Engineer
The 19th annual Vermont City Marathon was held May 27th, and HydroComp Engineer, Vin Puleo, was one of the 7600 participants to run the 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) course in Burlington, Vermont. Vin started an 18 week training program towards the end of January, and completed a variety of distances [...]

Like spinning a prop? Try spinning a Frisbee!

By Matt Packard – Project Engineer
Recently I have been asked to write a little bit about myself and about a sport I am rather passionate about called Ultimate Frisbee. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the sport, Ultimate Frisbee or “Ultimate as we call it, has been around for quite a few years. [...]

Ireland Representative to Relocate

By Stephanie McArdle – EU Marketing and Sales Manager
I have enjoyed living and working in Ireland and providing support to our clients throughout Europe. The prevalence of low cost airlines (you know the ones) provided a convenient gateway to all of Europe allowing for easy access to a gamut of trade shows not normally included [...]

A History of Interns

Miscellaneous Musings from the Technical Director
I was recently looking over some of the administrative project planning documents from years past, and I saw names of the young people that have passed through our office as interns. I believe that we hired our first university intern fifteen years ago. Then a senior at Webb Institute, Bill [...]