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5 Apps Every Engineer Should HaveMon, 06/08/2015 - 3:57pm

Janine E. Mooney, Editor in Chief | @JMooneyWDD

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During the Apple Worldwide Developers

Conference in San Francisco, the App Store

(@AppStore) tweeted an interesting statistic:

"@AppStore The average person has 119

apps.#WWDC15apple.co/live."

The average person has 119 applications on

their phone. Just imagine how many the above

average person has. I'm not sure if that number

is amazing or alarming, but whatever the case may be,apps are a

thing. A very big thing.

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They make things easier to find, do, see, hear, and so on. Which is why

we all, apparently, have so many of them downloaded on our phone.

Now whether we use them all, well, that's a whole other story.

With that said, I started thinking of all of the apps that I truly do use on

a daily basis, and how many apps there are out there that couldmakeyour life, as an engineer, a bit easier.

(Oh, and for all of you Android users, I've put together a nice list for

you, too: 5 Android Apps Every Engineer Should Have.)

1. AIAA Aerospace Design Engineers Guide

Developed by American Institute of Aeronautics

and Astronautics Inc., the app is an authoritative

resource for use by aerospace professionals during

design inception and development. The app provides

everyday reference from your device. Its role is to

serve as a specialized-purpose, in-field tool used by

design engineers to perform back-of-the-envelope/rough-order-of-

magnitude estimates and calculations for early preliminary and

conceptual aerospace design.

2. Mechanical Engineer

Developed by MultiEducator Inc., Mechanical Engineer

is a great tool for any engineer. The app has over 300

mechanical engineering formulas, as well as over 300

conversion formulas in the program. With over 70

major areas covered, including actuators bearings,

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heat transfer, kinetic energy, and more, you can even save formulas

and access recent/favorite formulas.

3. Decibel Loss Calculator

This tool, developed by iTech Tools, calculates power

loss between input power and output power given the

loss decibel (dB) between input power and outputpower. Loss is calculated as a ratio between input

power and output power, and as a percentage. The

app can be used in the area of radio, optical, and

electric communications.

4. iCircuit

iCircuit by Krueger Systems, Inc., is an app for

designing and experimenting with, you guessed it,

circuits. Integrated is a simulation engine that canhandle analog and digital circuits and features real-

time, always-on analysis. Use it as you would any

CAD program: add elements, connect them together,

and set their properties. With over 30 elements to build your circuits,

the app has everything from simple resistors, to switches, to MOSFETS,

to digital gates.

5. Engineering Professional

Engineering Professional, another app developed

by MultiEducator Inc., combines all of the formulas

from their formulator apps. Over 650 formulas allow

you to determine everything from calculations on

shafts to calculation on loads on beams. There are

100 conversion formulas, as well as a section for

determining Area formulas, and all formulas can be saved. Some

formulas include: ACDC, batteries, BTU conversion, generators,

impedance, and more.

Did I leave any great engineering apps out? Are any of the apps I've

included above total fails? Comment below, or email your comments

tojanine.mooney@advantagemedia.com.

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