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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

you know, courses in majors that prepare students for careers as low-paid malcontent activists. Yet Corrigan wants to kill a program that enables poor and minority Bay Area students to learn in-demand ...