Welcome to the RCI Blog 1409 565 Eric Roulo

Welcome to the RCI Blog

Welcome to the Roulo Consulting, Inc. weB LoG. This blog is intended to provide an informal, direct communication path to interested engineers and managers. I intend to use it as a petri dish for ideas that will develop into longer articles, training, and software products as well as a place to post comments that may…

Real Engineers Program 451 376 Eric Roulo

Real Engineers Program

Real engineers program The best engineers I have ever worked with are software hackers. The code is usually not elegant, can hardly be used by others, and is so single-minded in purpose as to be *almost* useless. But it allows the author to get an almost impossible job done, and usually about 10x faster. And…

Effective Technical Communication – E-Mail 800 533 Eric Roulo

Effective Technical Communication – E-Mail

The most sanctioned company-sponsored waste of human effort is by far e-mail. The reasons for this are many, but the solution for the individual is relatively simple. By following these guidelines, one can free up hours a week of time to focus on your true priorities and provide an example on how to communicate effectively…

Recommended Programming Languages 600 374 Eric Roulo

Recommended Programming Languages

RCI recommends that every engineer be a competent programmer. Programming forces a logical rigor into the solution of the engineering challenge and allows for the engineer to develop a framework in which to solve the problem. This ability to force the engineer to diagram their critical thinking is perhaps the best benefit from programming a…