List of Contributions

How much does our professional cognitive bias influence our practise? Let's take transportation design as an example: We make traffic and population growth projections, often linearly extrapolating a current short-term trend decades into the future. Time and again, after funding massively expensive projects ...

Jameelah, I appreciate your enthusiasm for our history and archaeology! For most projects on which I've been involved, owners, developers, and engineers deride the need for archaeological interrogations. Rather than having an interest in what may have come before, they seem to view such investigations ...

As I grow older and gain a better understanding of the world, it strikes me that our profession would benefit from a strong foundation in the liberal arts. Understanding literature, culture, art, the humanities, and language help us to relate to the human beings the engineering profession is here to ...

I read To Engineer is Human several years ago and enjoyed it; it's been on my list to re-read for a while. Perhaps I'll take this quarantine time to do so! ------------------------------ Joel Dixon P.E., M.ASCE Project Manager Oklahoma City OK ------------------------------

I've heard of a lot of different companies utilising this strategy, however, unless you're doing a deep-clean disinfection of your offices between every shift change, you run the risk of cross-contamination in the office. Research is showing that the virus is persistent on a variety of surfaces for days, ...