Global warming, meet geoengineering, the deliberate modification of Earth’s environment on a large scale to suit human needs and promote habitability. While the field remains controversial due to its radical project proposals, such as a sunshade sattelite that cools the earth by limiting the earth’s sun exposure, failed efforts to reduce global warming and [...]

Wired Magazine recently released a list of the top 10 stupid engineering mistakes of all time. Engineering &… likes to think that learning from mistakes is half the battle.
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The latest craze in poetry is neither limerick, nor haiku. It’s Fibs! Gregory K. Pincus of the literary blog, GottaBook invited his readers to try their hand at using the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …) to dictate the number of syllables per line [...]

Engineering &… would like to wish all its readers a happy Pi Day. For those unclear on the rituals involved in celebrating Pi Day, listen to a short story on NPR, check out some great Pi Day resources from the Mathematics Educators of Greater Saint Louis, or simply eat a slice of [...]

Engineering and science have become increasingly at odds with religion, or so it seems. On Tuesday, John E. Jones III, a federal judge, ruled that it was unconstitutional for a Pennsylvania school district to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in high school biology courses, citing that it is a religious viewpoint [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
1. 532.35 cm3 gluten
2. 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
3. 4.9 cm3 refined halite
4. 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5. 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
6. 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
7. 4.9 cm3 [...]

In honor of World AIDS Day, ASEE would like to extend its condolences to the millions of people who are afflicted by this horrible and devastating epidemic. Issues of funding have long plagued the end to this disease. However, some progress has been made since the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation identified the [...]

Engineering history is certainly making a comeback these days. Looking back to the past sometimes helps to see just how far we’ve come and can perhaps guide us in the future. A newly unveiled reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism reveals how advanced ancient Greece was in mechanical engineering. Experts disagree as to [...]

Would you believe that these are both engineers? Wentworth Miller (pictured behind bars) stars as TV’s newest engineer in Prison Break, a new series on Fox. It’s an edgy show about a structural engineer who uses his engineering knowledge in order to break his brother who was wrongly imprisoned out of jail!