Every once in awhile I come across a book I wished I would have had when I was an engineering undergrad. 101 Things I Learned in Engineering School, by John Kuprenas, a PE, with Matthew Frederick, an ...

Welcome to our 5 Engineers section, part of this blog and our Fun Friday newsletter, where we toss out a question and invite our audience to respond with their wittiest answers. We’re featuring an ...

Note: The following is adapted from the book “ Electrical Engineering 101, Third Edition” by Darren Ashby (Newnes). Do you remember your engineering introductory course? At most, I’ll venture that you ...

Online encyclopedia Webopedia defines social engineering as "the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain otherwise secure data by conning an individual into revealing secure information." ...

Sometimes, even the soundest engineering isn’t sound-enough engineering. So when things go sideways, politics can be a shrewd tool or your undoing. So there you are, with your bare face hanging out, ...

In January, we surfed across some of the salient issues of small business accounting as applied to contract engineers. Along the way, we briefly touched on the need for a business plan. This month, we ...

Portable CMMs and software make reverse engineering useful for modifications, new designs, and duplicating parts without drawings. If you can measure an object, you can reverse engineer it. The key is ...