Every once in awhile I come across a book I wished I would have had when I was an engineering undergrad. 101 Things I Learned in Engineering School, by John Kuprenas, a PE, with Matthew Frederick, an ...

Welcome to our 5 Engineers section, part of this blog and our Fun Friday newsletter, where we toss out a question and invite our audience to respond with their wittiest answers. We’re featuring an ...

Online encyclopedia Webopedia defines social engineering as "the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain otherwise secure data by conning an individual into revealing secure information." ...

Note: The following is adapted from the book “ Electrical Engineering 101, Third Edition” by Darren Ashby (Newnes). [Part one explains how, by understanding unit math, you can solve nearly any problem ...

Chances are, your next security breach will be caused by hackers exploiting someone within your organization. In just the last two months, a single, simple phishing scam targeted seven organizations, ...

Sometimes, even the soundest engineering isn’t sound-enough engineering. So when things go sideways, politics can be a shrewd tool or your undoing. So there you are, with your bare face hanging out, ...

Portable CMMs and software make reverse engineering useful for modifications, new designs, and duplicating parts without drawings. If you can measure an object, you can reverse engineer it. The key is ...

I was recently asked to teach Engineering Ethics at my university, which I haven't had the opportunity to do since graduate school. If I were to teach it, I would start with the Titan submersible ...