Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a morbid fascination with engineering mega-failures, few ...

The global modern industry is a massive operation that works on a scale almost impossible to comprehend. At every stage, it ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the technology industry. Following a period of fast growth as organizations and individuals embraced a digital-first mindset amid the pandemic, our ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Most people think of the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” as a story of devoted friendship between a spider and a pig. But it can also be read as a story of a budding engineer – ...

When the lights stayed on in Kyiv during a wave of missile attacks in early 2024, Ukrainian officials quietly acknowledged a second line of defense that received far less public attention than the ...

With the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, commentators from all disciplines are offering insights into “what it all meant.”.Let's instead stick to results closer to home: What did the ...

Several months ago a friend of mine who is a chemical engineer for DuPont, and is involved with sustaining the uptime (increasing the reliability) of production systems, introduced me to a tool. It is ...

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China now graduates roughly 1.3 million engineers per year, versus about 130,000 in the United States. This 10-to-one gap ...