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Last year, many of you asked IISE membership staff about the potential for launching a podcast. Well, “ask and you shall receive!” Yesterday at the IISE Annual Conference was the launch of “PROBLEM SOLVED: The IISE Podcast,” which will feature engineers from diverse backgrounds in both academia and industry discussing a wide range of topics about the work they do as industrial and systems engineers as well as some off-beat topics that will fascinate you, the audience. The first episode ...

In the May, 2019 edition of ASME magazine, they offered an educated guess on the future of manufacturing and business. As an industrial engineer working in IT, I can see some of the trends they are discussing. They thought that digital platforms would increase global trade by 1.3 to 2.1 trillion dollars by trimming costs, increasing trade 6 to 10 percent by “reducing friction”. Having ordered parts off eBay from China for a client and responding to customer support requests from Canada and Pakistan, ...

There was a group discussion on 5G, and a woman said her son had researched it in detail. She then started talking about the harm 5G was supposed to inflict. I mentioned that I was familiar with radio frequencies and wireless technology. I had a ham radio license, had worked with radar systems for years and now worked for an RF firm. I said it was not dangerous. I was promptly shot down. Someone brought up how 5G radiation is worse than prior forms of wireless radiation because it is so much ...

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Tamara Wilhite