Category: General Interest
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Legacy Post: A Visit to Utah (April 2018)
Last year (2017), Hill Engineering opened a satellite office in Layton, UT with the goal of better connecting with our customers and partners in the local area. Mike and I recently made a trip out to the office to check in and to spend some time working with our excellent team there to better understand…
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Utah Office Hosts 2026 Bruce Anderson Golf Tournament
The annual Bruce Anderson Golf Tournament returned to Schneider’s Riverside Golf Course, just outside Hill Air Force Base, on July 15, bringing together folks from Hill Engineering and the community for a day of friendly competition and remembrance. Held each year in honor of the late Bruce Anderson, a former member of the Hill Engineering…
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Legacy Post: Fatigue Testing Explained: How Engineers Evaluate Material Performance and Durability (Mar 2018)
Fatigue tests are an important part of our work at Hill Engineering. There are many reasons to perform fatigue tests including: 1) qualifying the performance of parts for production, 2) ranking and optimizing different production processes, 3) validating fatigue analysis results and associated models, 4) understanding the performance of parts already in service, and more.…
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Legacy Post: Fatigue Crack Growth Rate Data Fitting (Sep 2017)
LEGACY POST: Hill Engineering is presenting about material data and fitting processes for fatigue property assessment at the AFGROW Users Workshop 2017 in Layton, UT. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for users to share ideas, demonstrate how AFGROW is being used for practical cases, and discuss future development. Hill Engineering’s…
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Back on campus for the UC Davis Engineering Design Showcase
Early summer is an important time of year for senior engineering undergraduate students at UC Davis. This is usually when the College of Engineering holds the Engineering Design Showcase, an event where student groups from all eight departments present their capstone project in which they designed and prototyped a product, device, process, or software system.…
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Legacy Post: ERS-toolbox® at AFGROW Users Workshop (Sep 2017)
Hill Engineering is presenting an overview of our ERS-toolbox® software at the upcoming AFGROW Users Workshop 2017 in Layton, UT. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for users to share ideas, demonstrate how AFGROW is being used for practical cases, and discuss future development. Hill Engineering’s presentation will include an overview…
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A Brief Introduction to 3D Printing
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has come a long way, evolving from a method only useful for creating functional and aesthetic prototypes to something that is being used more and more for industrial production. It has advantages over more traditional methods of construction in that complex shapes and geometries such as hollow parts or parts…
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Legacy Post: Prime Room Ribbon Cutting (Oct 2017)
Hill Engineering’s new facility in Rancho Cordova, CA features a combination of laboratory, research and development, and office space. We have proudly named the primary conference room in our new facility the Prime Room, a fitting tribute to a special Hill Engineering collaborator, the inventor of the contour method, and inspirational figure, Mike Prime. We…
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Team Member Highlight: Celebrating 10 Years with Camille
The end of 2025 marked a special milestone for me – it was my tenth year of working at Hill Engineering! A lot has happened since then, so I’d like to share a little bit with you about how I got here. My story begins in 2014 while pursuing a double major in Aerospace Science…
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Legacy Post: Residual Stress in Additive Manufacturing (Feb 2018)
In previous blog posts we have discussed various issues related to residual stress in welding. Here, we’ll follow up with a more detailed look at residual stress in additive manufactured parts, which is a form of welding. Additive manufacturing processes, including powder and wire-fed E-beam and laser, produce residual stress as an undesired consequence. Residual…