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Based on documented market trends over the past two years, it appears that the job market for engineers is slowly adjusting back to pre-recession times.  If our engineering job board is an accurate representation of what is actually happening on the ground, then we can comfortably conclude that the economy is adding [...]

The oil and gas industry is one of the most active sectors in the US economy.  While other sectors are still recovering from the recent economic recession, the petroleum and oil and natural gas companies have remained profitable. The industry itself provides employment to over 9.2 million people including those [...]

Compared to other majors, engineering does not graduate enough engineers to meet the demand. This imbalance points to a potentially chronic shortage of engineering professionals which in turn threatens the our ability to create and develop necessary innovations for a growing population. To further complicate this predicament, it is a [...]

Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) releases a report card for America’s Infrastructure. This report is intended to provide a professional a depiction and a review of the nation’s infrastructure.  Generally, ASCE assigns an school-report-type overall  grade as well as individual grades in 15 infrastructure categories. [...]

Biomedical engineering is a relatively new discipline which combines medicine and engineering to provide solutions for the betterment of our health.  Primarily, biomedical engineers are involved in the complete design of medical instruments ranging from large imaging systems such as x-ray and magnetic resonance imaging machines, to small implantable devices, [...]

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The perpetual motion machine created by Danish artist, Reidar Finsrud is quite impressive and would make a great addition in an engineer’s living room but would a scaled up version be an efficient in generating electricity?

As an addendum to our popular Work-life balance for engineers article, the following video emphasizes Hans’ point which is summarized in the following paragraph: Let us remember that it is not how long we work that stresses us, it is the reluctance with which we look at it and our [...]