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Several years ago, I was at an ABET symposium on engineering education. A professor from an engineering program rose to say, “I would like to comment on a topic we don’t often discuss in the engineering profession. I have been a professor...

How can skills that normally promote your personal brand equity cause serious damage during a teleconference? Understanding how to manage your personal brand during a multiuser teleconference goes beyond just adhering to the basic rules of conference...

Do you have bodily vigor? How good are you at playing the business game? Do you maintain a well-groomed appearance? View Larger (PDF) The February 1922 issue of Professional Engineer had a column on the leadership challenges that executive engineers faced...

The whole point of the medical treatment was to make you forget the past. Memories that one wished had never occurred could be erased, particularly in the context of personal and emotional loss. And if that feat of pharmaceutical engineering proved too...

The NSPE Board of Ethical Review is considering changes to the Society’s Code of Ethics and wants to hear your suggestions. The Board is specifically interested in suggested changes that reflect technology’s impact on engineering ethics and...

The Washington Accord is an agreement among accrediting bodies in numerous countries, governing mutual recognition of engineering education qualifications and accreditation of engineering programs. When the accord was initially signed in 1989, the signatories...

"Is engineering dying? It isn't clear, but in developed countries around the world young people would rather go to the dentist than go into engineering," writes Dave Goldberg in the October issue of PE . "Law, business, and medicine—just...

The desk in the hotel room was bathed in the glow of a Cracker Barrel sign. This nearly ubiquitous restaurant chain had its sky-scraping signs located throughout most of the major highways of the United States and its promise of a wholesome country-style...