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Manufacturing Innovation Blog

Reflections – Part 4

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." —Margaret Mead A Salute to MEP Center staff

The Magnitude of One

In college I learned about Chaos Theory, sometimes called Butterfly Effect in which small differences in an initial condition result in divergent outcomes in

Reflections – Part 3

“People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.” – Dr. Allan Fromme Reflections on MEP at 25 –
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