List of Contributions

Bill, Agreed. Toastmasters is a wonderful program and group to be a part of, though I haven't been in several years. It is a phenomenal way to work on your communication skills in a low pressure setting and you meet great people from other industries that want to make themselves better and help others ...

This conversation has been interesting to follow, and some great points have been made. I think one mistake that is made, and being made in this thread, is the expectation that communication/social skills should be taught as part of the engineering programs, and it is a failure of the universities if ...

I agree with Chad and Heidi. Will there now be a land development PE? What would that test look like? That is one of the advantages to the PE is that you may not be specialized in a particular field like structural, but you are a professional generalist. Similar to other licensed professionals, ...

One of the biggest advantages that we had in the engineering department at The Citadel was that every professor had at least 10 years of engineering experience before coming to The Citadel to teach. They also consulted and did research and all but one was a licensed PE. It was great to sit in class and ...

George, Writing is an issue that plagues more than engineering. You are spot on that it is a serious failing of the educational system and it starts in elementary school. I think that one of the items that has contributed to poor written communication is elementary schools doing away with handwriting ...