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 ...

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." ...

A couple of years ago, I shared the story of my son, Mark, age 12 at the time, who seemed to be showing an aptitude and inclination toward the field of engineering. He had just won his second Lego ...

Site editor's note: When I first saw this book, I was afraid it was a “dumbed-down” book, a sort of “EE for Dummies” targeted at average Joe and Jane at home, making engineering seem almost trivially ...

Chances are, your next security breach will be caused by hackers exploiting someone within your organization. In just the last two months, a single, simple phishing scam targeted seven organizations, ...

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 ...

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, ...

I was recently asked to teach Engineering Ethics at my university, which I haven't had the opportunity to do since graduate school. If I were to teach it, I would start with the Titan submersible ...

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 ...