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#32 – Steve Drake: Speakers in your suspension?
Beers with engineers or wine-ing and designing?
Steve worked at Bose – the Soundlink and the Wave CD radio.
As a kid, he jumped off a roof with a trash bag as a parachute.
Elsewhere, worked in electro-optics system group.
Always been interested in acoustics and Bose was very close to home.
Bose was a great place to work; high caliber people.
Bose worked on car suspension.
They also worked on suspension seats for trucks.
Bose – big rich sound in a really small package
Steve likes Klipsch speakers
Helped unify different groups at Olympus
Did some nice analysis on silicone for passive radiators in Bose speakers
Sometimes test results that don’t make sense at first actually do when examined closely.
He took an engineering approach to getting his daughter to nap better.
Steve likes cooking. It’s more like jazz than engineering.
"On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee
"Chemistry in the Kitchen" by Matthew Hartings
Steve wants to go to Portugal, see the coast, and try the food.
Croatia is also high on the list.
Bert's website - www.dexterityeng.com
Beers with engineers or wine-ing and designing?
Steve worked at Bose – the Soundlink and the Wave CD radio.
As a kid, he jumped off a roof with a trash bag as a parachute.
Elsewhere, worked in electro-optics system group.
Always been interested in acoustics and Bose was very close to home.
Bose was a great place to work; high caliber people.
Bose worked on car suspension.
They also worked on suspension seats for trucks.
Bose – big rich sound in a really small package
Steve likes Klipsch speakers
Helped unify different groups at Olympus
Did some nice analysis on silicone for passive radiators in Bose speakers
Sometimes test results that don’t make sense at first actually do when examined closely.
He took an engineering approach to getting his daughter to nap better.
Steve likes cooking. It’s more like jazz than engineering.
"On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee
"Chemistry in the Kitchen" by Matthew Hartings
Steve wants to go to Portugal, see the coast, and try the food.
Croatia is also high on the list.
Bert's website - www.dexterityeng.com
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