Category: Engineering
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Happy National Engineer’s Week
It’s National Engineers Week (February 19-25)! To celebrate, MIT PressLog conducted a series of Q&As with the authors of their new Engineering Systems series books, which they will post over the next couple of days. Read all the rest on their site, a site I have been reading for as long as I remember and…
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Engineering simulates what it is like to be 75
What’s it like to be 75 years old? The folks at MIT have a way to work with that issue. Read the full article and see related links, and wonderful things, by J The U.S. population of persons 65 years or older numbered 39.6 million in 2009 and is expected to increase to 72.1 million…
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Obvious Science Findings of 2011
Find the full article at uh! 11 Obvious Science Findings of 2011, By Stephanie Pappas and LiveScience | December 31, 2011 | In science, it’s not enough to think something is so. Researchers must show that what we believe to be true is in fact true, proven through statistically significant and reproducible results. Questioning assumptions is,…
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NYTimes: Engineering Majors Most Likely to Burn the Midnight Oil
By REBECCA R. RUIZ Students who major in engineering and the physical sciences can expect to spend more hours in the library than those who take a concentration of courses in business and social sciences, according to a national survey of more than 400,000 undergraduates at nearly 700 colleges and universities. The annual survey, known…
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Museum of Obsolete Objects
MoooJvM’s Channel – YouTube Sadly, as our daily lives become more and more digital some things fall by the way side as they are replaced by newer, «better» devices. Let us not forget those fallen appliances, tools and gadgets and relive those bygone times by taking a visit to The Museum of Obsolete Objects. Step…