Three engineers and three accountants are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each buy tickets and watch as the three engineers buy only a single ticket. “How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asks an accountant. “Watch and you’ll see,” answers an engineer. They all [...]
If you are a new engineer, check out the EngineeringDaily.net guide for new engineers. Topics include (or will include) the following: Studying and passing the FE exam Landing your first job as an engineer Search for your first engineering job An introduction to the 401k retirement plan Transition from college to work Debt Management and Smart [...]
“Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men and women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds [...]
The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is a ritual for students about to graduate from an engineering program at a Canadian university or for a Canadian registered professional engineer or engineer-in-training who has received his or her training elsewhere. Their official web site ( The Iron Ring ) http://www.ironring.ca/ provides some explaination and history of [...]
From: International Association of Engineers (IAENG) WCE 2010: London, U.K., 30 June – 2 July, 2010 http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2010 The World Congress on Engineering (WCE) 2010 is organized by International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The congress has the focus on the frontier topics in the [...]
CHARLES F. KETTERING, the renowned engineer and inventor, believed that the more education people had the less likely they were to become inventors. From the time children start in school, he explained, they take many examination tests and are taught that failure is a disastrous thing. Inventors fail all the time but are made to [...]
