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As Thinking Engineers, we declare that we will apply the engineering thought process not just to technological advancement, but to the overall betterment of the Self. We are individual contributors to the greater public good to which we all belong. Engineering...

An April 2012 court decision in the Cook County, Illinois, circuit court provides insight regarding the challenges of protecting the use of the title “engineer.” This was a litigated case regarding disputed payment of a $350 invoice (!!) for...

As engineers, we are trained to quantify the world around us to the extent that such analytical representations of our surroundings emerge comfortably, organically. Engineers quantify to innovate and improve: the structural stability of cantilevered bridges...

Without strong infrastructure systems, our national economic position, including our workforce, production, health, safety, and overall welfare is at risk. Professional engineers play a key role in the planning, design, implementation, construction, operation...

I am getting good at being blank, Staring at all the zeroes in the air. - Billy Collins Former Poet Laureate of the United States Collins’s “zeroes” are less about currency than they are about being current or rather, motivating oneself...

When former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan coined the phrase “irrational exuberance” in the mid 1990s, he was referring to the seemingly irrational behavior that the markets were exhibiting with regards to general consumption. The...

This is the first 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...