Category: ENGINGEER BLOOG
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Soccer to an West African
Atsu Bedjean was a boy whose heart beat in a rhythm of thumps and cheers. The world, to Atsu, was a giant soccer pitch. The sandy alley behind his house in Lomé was his stadium, the faded lines on the old schoolyard were his hallowed turf, and a half-inflated ball with a stubbornly slow leak…
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Atsu Bedjean: The 29-Year-Old Automation Engineer Bridging the Gap Between Industrial Control and Building Automation
In the rapidly evolving world of smart infrastructure and industrial efficiency, few young professionals possess the technical versatility to handle both high-voltage industrial processes and intricate building automation systems. At just 29 years old, Atsu Bedjean is making a name for himself as a rising star in the field of Automation and Controls Engineering. Currently…
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Property managers: Hire engineers to contract envelope restoration
Engineering led guide for property managers to brief and hire envelope restoration, with commissioning oversight and masonry care.
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Owners’ 5 Step RFP Framework: Design Build vs Design Bid Build
Owner first framework: turn FHWA evidence into RFP actions. 5 step checklist helps owners choose design build or design bid build.
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Free PLC Simulators Ranked by Scan-Cycle Fidelity, Not Just Looks
You finally have time to learn PLC programming, but the hardware costs hundreds or thousands of dollars before you write a single rung of logic. This is the reality that pushes most beginners toward a plc programming simulator, and the market has no shortage of options claiming to fill that gap. The problem is that…
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How the Siemens and Nvidia AI Stack Changes Your Toolchain Decision
The convergence of Siemens’ automation hardware infrastructure with Nvidia’s AI software stack into what both companies are positioning as a unified industrial operating system belongs in that second category, and controls engineers who treat it as a product announcement are misreading the signal. This analysis is not about whether AI-augmented automation is coming. It is…
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Controls Engineer Career Levels: What Actually Separates Junior, Mid, Senior, and Principal Engineers
Most controls engineers find out what separates junior from senior the hard way: they wait, accumulate years, and then wonder why the promotion conversation keeps getting delayed. The truth is that engineer career levels in controls engineering are rarely written down anywhere you can actually read them. Companies have internal frameworks, but those expectations tend…
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SCADA Systems Explained: What They Do, How They Work, and When You Actually Need One
Picture this: a single operator sitting at a computer screen, watching live data stream in from dozens of pumping stations scattered across an entire city’s water network. No driving between sites, no phone calls, no guesswork. Just clean, real-time visibility and the ability to take action from one central location. That is what a SCADA…
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PID Controllers Explained: Why Every Industrial Process Uses the Same Three-Term Formula
Every industrial process you can name, from a refinery distillation column to a semiconductor fab’s temperature chamber, almost certainly runs under the supervision of the same algorithm invented in the 1940s. That algorithm is the PID controller, and its longevity is not an accident or an oversight. It persists because its three-term structure maps directly…
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Vibe Coding a SCADA Dashboard: What Worked, What Broke, and What I’d Do Differently
I did not plan to become a web developer. I am a controls engineer. I think in ladder logic, PLC tags, and P&IDs, not React components and REST APIs. But when a project called for a real-time equipment monitoring dashboard and the IT queue stretched out for months, I decided to try something different: vibe…