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On Wednesday, February 17, the winners of National Engineers Week’s Future City Competition visited President Obama at the White House and took part in a phone call with 11 astronauts aboard the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Endeavour...

This is the fourth in a series of four articles prepared by a subcommittee of the NSPE Licensure and Qualifications for Practice Committee examining the various impacts of the additional engineering education initiative. This summary was drafted by Paul...

In the present economic straits, even some of the most robust corporations have just now begun to start climbing up out of the embers. Of the many books on the subject that have appeared, Jim Collins’s How the Mighty Fall , captures the act of collapse...

Maybe I spend too much blog time discussing nuclear power, but I feel there isn’t enough advocacy for a technology that has a place on our global energy future. A recent article in Science Daily describes a “4th generation or Gen IV ”...

The end of the year is upon us, but before you devote all your free time to catching up on episodes of Lost or making round-trip sojourns to the eggnog punch bowl, consider a few other ways to make the most of your holiday gift of Outlook-calendar free...

In Superfreakonomics , Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s best-selling sequel to their 2005 hit Freakonomics , they write of an individual “so polymathic as to make an everyday polymath tremble with shame.” That individual is Nathan...

I’d like to applaud President Obama for committing $3.4 billion in stimulus funds to support projects aimed at modernizing the power grid. This will be matched by $4.7 billion in private investments. This is a great start. Modernization of our electric...