2009
November 10, 2009: D&K Engineering Supports Accelerated Math Program
D&K Engineering in Rancho Bernardo, CA, has made a $6,000 donation in support of the Accelerated Math Program at Calvin Christian School in Escondido, CA.
“Technology is such an integral part of our everyday lives and having solid math skills, is critical to the understanding and advancement of technology among today’s students,” stated Scott Dennis, CEO, D&K Engineering. “At D&K, we believe in giving back to the community and with budgets being cut across the board in schools today, this donation provides Calvin Christian with an option for students to enhance their math skills which are critical to their future success.”
The accelerated math program is an internet-based, teacher directed program used to supplement the existing math curriculum. The program is tailored for each student, allows them to work at their own pace and focus on areas where they need help. The software program is flexible in providing various levels of training based on the students’ ability and allows parents the option to assist their children with the training.
“D&K Engineering’s donation has allowed us the ability to purchase the online computer program and place a computer and scanner in each of 8 classrooms,” stated Terry Kok, superintendent at Calvin Christian School. “The scanners in each classroom provide students with immediate feedback by scanning their answers into the system. The goal of the program is to improve math scores.”
About D&K Engineering
D&K Engineering is a global outsourced R&D, engineering and manufacturing services company focused on developing and manufacturing complex electromechanical products and equipment. With integrated engineering and contract manufacturing capabilities, D&K Engineering mobilizes the right resources, skills, and partnerships to create and deliver sustainable business value to its clients seeking to outsource the design and/or manufacturing of their equipment or products.
June 30, 2009: D&K Engineering Expands San Diego Headquarters
Due to its rapid growth, D&K Engineering, a global contract R&D, engineering and manufacturing services company announces the expansion of its San Diego headquarters. This expansion reflects D&K Engineering’s accelerated growth over the past 12 months and will accommodate both recent team expansion and additional headcount growth planned for the remainder of 2009 and 2010.
D&K Engineering’s San Diego headquarters facility houses its team of R&D engineers, manufacturing staff and administrative operations.
“This additional space responds directly to the evolving needs of our growing business and continually-expanding team,” says Alex Kunczynski, President of D&K Engineering. “We are committed to the San Diego area and the local economy primarily because the area has been good to us, providing us with outstanding employees and support to grow our business.”
About D&K Engineering
D&K Engineering is a global outsourced R&D, engineering and manufacturing services company focused on developing and manufacturing complex electromechanical products and equipment. With integrated engineering and contract manufacturing capabilities, D&K Engineering mobilizes the right resources, skills, and partnerships to create and deliver sustainable business value to its clients seeking to outsource the design and/or manufacturing of their equipment or products.
2006
April 24, 2006: D&K Engineering's Keith Emery Honored
Keith Emery, mechanical engineer for D&K Engineering in Rancho Bernardo, CA, has won first prize in the 2006 Lantronix Wireless Design Contest for his eLAWN™ programmable sprinkler controller. The top honor was announced April 6th at the Silicon Valley Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose.
With D&K since 2004, Emery received an Innovative Recognition Award and $5,000 first prize from Lantronix. He had stiff competition from hundreds of the top designing minds around the globe, according to Lantronix’s Kristine Hernandez.
Entrants submitted written ideas before those deemed worthy of development became working prototypes. Contest entries were judged for:
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Final decisions of first, second and third place winners came from Editors of Electronic Design and Machine magazines. Emery emerged with unanimous decision for first place.
Emery’s eLAWN offers multiple engineering applications, including abilities to track:
eLAWN shuts off sprinkler heads if malfunctions are detected, emailing status changes to property owners. With problems resolved or environmental anomalies, eliminated, the system reverts to its original watering schedule. Users can adjust the system from any computer around the world.
“The patent-pending eLAWN becomes a weather station for home or office” says Emery. “Including embedded web server capabilities into the home is unquestionably in our future.”
D&C company president, Alex Kunczynski, observes: “We’re incredibly proud of Keith for his accomplishment, but not remotely surprised. Keith represents the people throughout our R&D department – innovative engineers who have vision to leverage technology to effectively develop great products. Keith’s inventive spirit exemplifies one of our team’s core competencies.”
Lantronix (www.lantronix.com) helps businesses and government agencies manage network infrastructure equipment and rapidly network-enable their physical electronic devices. The company challenged industry designers worldwide to develop devices utilizing their WiPort embedded 802.11 networking module.
March 17, 2006: Searching for Sexy Engineers
Terms like “engineering”, “contract manufacturing” and “ramp & roll” are rarely in the same sentence as the word “sexy.” Then again, D&K Engineering of Rancho Bernardo, CA prides itself in being different.
This full-service product development and manufacturing firm offers its clients the opportunity to get help at any stage in an idea’s life cycle. “We’re a multidisciplinary, engineering solutions provider coupled with high-tech contract manufacturing capabilities” says company president Alex Kunczynski. Pushed for an English translation, he laughs and says “Product development is hard. We help clients turn ideas into reality quickly and efficiently.”
Blending the perfect mix of engineering and manufacturing, Kunczynski and co-founder Scott Dennis took their Hewlett-Packard backgrounds and turned them into a quick turnaround engineering/manufacturing firm. “One of our clients estimated it would take them four years to build their new product internally from start to finish.” explains Kunczynski “Our teams collaborated to design and ship new units in only 18 months.”
Acknowledging “Not every project’s for us”, Kunczynski explains “We can’t be all things to all people. But for those organizations seeking an outsourcing partner to design, develop and/or manufacture their product, we’re ideal.
He continues “We love projects that are substantive and have high engineering content. At day’s end our work should mean something. Seeing an idea transform elegantly into reality, then producing and shipping that reality worldwide makes it all worthwhile.”
The company will be growing even more once they hit the WESTEC show in Los Angeles (March 27-30). WESTEC is considered by many to be THE forum for recognition by industry peers. Much of the West Coast manufacturing landscape is shaped from this influential conference, where 20,000 industry leaders meet to explore pioneering technologies and strategies, supplier networks, and business relationships.
With D&K Engineering being one of the few US players offering end-to-end manufacturing and engineering services for complex products and equipment it’s easy to understand why they’re seen as “different”.
It’s because they are!
D&K will be at WESTEC Booth Number 5920. The company can be found online at www.dkengineering.com, and can be reached at 15890 Bernardo Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92127. Their phone number is 858-376-2500.