Author: TechNation Magazine

This Month's Contest Do you consider yourself a history buff? Are you widely regarded among coworkers as an equipment aficionado? Here is your chance to prove it! Check out “The Vault” photo. Tell us what this medical device is and earn bragging rights. Each person who submits a correct answer will be entered to win
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Unlike flexible endoscopes, TEE probe leakage testing REQUIRES the probe be immersed in a test liquid, typically tap/sterile water or a chemical disinfectant. This poses a challenge, especially if there actually IS a break or opening somewhere on the probe. As soon as the probe would be immersed in the test liquid, the liquid would enter, and begin flooding, the probe.

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The future is … here? Over the past few years, Penn State New Kensington, where I teach, has been working to prepare our students for careers in the future. We have placed a focus on future-ready skills, including an entrepreneurial mindset and technologies related to Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is a term used to describe the fourth industrial revolution, or the digital transformation of manufacturing. 

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