List of Contributions

Engineers are often perceived to be cold and calculating. My favorite engineer joke plays on that theme: One day a physician, a minister and an engineer were playing golf together. The threesome came up on a group in front of them that were terrible golfers. The trailing threesome couldn't get their ...

I work in State Government, so we are a big organization. However, I think that what we do is a good practice. Rather than wait all year to have an appraisal session, we have a mid-appraisal at the 6 months point. One part of the exercise is to list strength of the employee. The other part lists what ...

I think that David McCullough's The Great Bridge is a good read. The story tells about civil engineers that designed suspension bridges as the astronauts of the day. Much of the suspension bridge design was theory in the pre-Civil War era when the Brooklyn Bridge was build. The bridge has long been considered ...