https://www.uiorean.com/tags/engineering/Recent content in Engineering on Ligiu UioreanHugoen_USSat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.uiorean.com/opinions/the-dacia-tender-was-a-masterclass/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.uiorean.com/opinions/the-dacia-tender-was-a-masterclass/<p>Sometime in 1966 a wooden crate arrived in Bucharest under guard. It had been built deliberately oversized and featureless, so that nobody handling it could work out what was inside. What was inside was a car: a Renault prototype that, as far as the world was concerned, did not yet exist, a model still years away from a French showroom. A handful of people were allowed to look at it for a few days, and then it was crated up and taken away again.</p>https://www.uiorean.com/posts/2012-10-11-scrutiny-and-made-up-numbers/Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:41:55 +0000https://www.uiorean.com/posts/2012-10-11-scrutiny-and-made-up-numbers/<p>As an engineer, I am always amazed that proposed solutions that rely on years of experience, research, testing, sleepless nights and stacks of documentation and numbers are sctutinized beyond belief, opposed with the most inane arguments and quickly forgotten but on the other hand, made up statistics, pie-in-the-sky numbers or weak conjectures are accepted by everybody, hang around for years unchallenged and end up in business cases and news.</p> <hr> <p><em>Originally published on Facebook.</em></p>