Have you ever wondered if you studied the right discipline?

That's something that my colleagues and I debate often. When you chose your field of study, you don't really know anything about what a [fill in discipline here] engineer really does in the run of a day. It's the kind of thing you can only figure out by doing it. That means you've got to chose a discipline and go for it, and there's no way of knowing for sure if you're going to be into it.…

I am an Electrical Engineer but now in a management role. We have an area that we store large mobile equipment and it has a asphalt berm coated with Coal Tar Epoxy around it to contain spills.  The berm is only 15 months old and is cracking.  The solution provided to me is to seal the cracks and recoat it.  I don't feel comfortable repeating the previous solution. We used to have portable containment units but they were maintenance intensive for leaves and debris and the plastic clips that…

The recent Women’s Innovation Symposium in Engineering (W.I.S.E.) event took place in Brooklyn with the aim of exposing women to the world of engineering in a fun and engaging way. The day consisted of listening to experts who work in the industry, a fair and a series of workshops. The idea is to open up people's eyes to the great range of engineering careers available and hopefully increase the current 20% of female…

A friend of mine and I went out to one of my favourite pubs a few nights ago to talk about his career. He’s considering making a move from his current employer to be able to pursue other interests, but wasn’t sure if he should.

You see, his current job is with a very well-respected company and his position looks incredible on paper. The problem is that he’s just not challenged.

In short, he doesn’t love what he’s doing, and I think this is a problem for him.…

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is a non-partisan think tank that works to formulate and promote policies to advance technological innovation. President Robert Atkinson recently spoke to a group of industrial component manufacturers at the Annual Conference of the National Fluid Power Association about the economics of innovation.

Atkinson spent a good deal of time talking about the so-called Great Recession, the worst recession this country has seen since…

Fascinating story developing about a sexist obituary that the New York Times wrote about a female rocket scientist. They started off with this:

Yvonne Brill, a Pioneering Rocket Scientist, Dies at 88

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Published: March 30, 2013

She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from…

Hi all,

I'm a writer for PE (Professional Engineer) magazine, and I'm working on an article on engineering-specific social networks. I interviewed this site's founder, but I'd also love to speak to a regular user or two about your experiences--why you use it, what you've gotten out of it, how it compares to other options, etc.

It would be a bonus of you were a licensed professional engineer, since that's the majority of our readership, but that's…

Folks,

The following bilingual (Chinese/English) agreement is what we use to protect our clients when they’re ordering tooling in support of a new product development program. It defines who owns the tooling as well as the terms and conditions for it’s use. Good agreements that are clearly written in two languages make for healthy customer-vendor relationships. Please feel free to review and…

I'm always interested in how people use CAD software to do interesting projects.

Nout Van Heumen is an industrial designer and engineer whose day job, so to speak, is in the packaging and insulation business. But Hout has developed a name for himself by taking on some really interesting freelance jobs.

One of his projects that I particularly like is the Aristedes OIO guitar. If you check out the picture of this guitar, you can see that it's pretty cool looking. It's also pretty…

The Piaggio Group is the European leading manufacturer of two-wheeled motor vehicles and also holds an international leading role in the commercial vehicle market.

With over 7000 employees and facilities and research centers scattered over Italy, Vietnam, Spain, China and India, Piaggio has recently been investing its efforts in the creation of a new scooter model destined for the Indian market and has chosen LMS Virtual.Lab Durability to address engineering challenges linked to this…

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TeamPlatform has made a enhancement to their online platform.  

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• Instant Hyperlinks, called "@mentions", across the platform.

If you don't know what @mention is, then you probably haven't posted much on Twitter (or Facebook, or other social networking sites).  It's helpful because, say on Facebook, if you want to mention your cousin, you can type "@cous" and immediatley your cousin's name, "Cousin Bob" shows while you type. It cuts down…

The realm of heavy lifting is not for the faint hearted. A shovel of this size weighs in excess of a thousand metric ton. This kind of weight would pancake a family sedan in seconds. So you need to respect the laws of physics and take great care raising this machine.

The equipment we use is custom made.…

Despite the media hype that 3D printers can be used to make literally anything, and that they will disrupt all kinds of present day processes and systems, professional users have a number of frustrations with this technology. These frustrations can be overcome with further R&D, assuming the media hype doesn’t inflate expectations to a point that frustrates the most enthusiastic users. But here are some of the frustrations shared by experienced users on various sites:

Material…

PTC Windchill PDM Essentials Offers Small Companies a Quick to Deploy Package of PTC’s Production-Proven PLM Software

NEEDHAM, MA. - February 14, 2013 - PTC^® (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced PTC Windchill^® PDM Essentials^TM, a product…

The question of when will more engineers use 3D printers may be answered this way—when the price per prototype drops, some say to as far down as less than $1.00 a part. At least that’s what Ezra Zygmuntowicz, CEO, founder, and “hacker” (his words) at Trinity Labs thinks. I met Ezra at the recent MD&M West show in Anaheim, CA. He was displaying his new prosumer 3D printer in the PBC Linear booth.…

Hello Everybody!

Me and a few friends took it upon ourselves to set up a website dedicated to online engineering type games.

We geared the website mainly for children but I'm sure some of the games on there will question even an adults logic!

We hope you can spare some time to browse through our site, play some games and even share it with your children!

Engineering Games

Free Workshops from Concurrent Systems Inc (CSI)

As a result of a recent survey we have decided to hold more training and workshops to add value to our followers. They are all free of charge and most include lunch! Descriptions of the workshops can…