Change Management: Combining Management with Ancient Philosophy:
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is one of the rare Indian government undertakings that are completed on schedule and within budget.
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DMRC’s uniqueness lies in how it has managed “soft issues” related to the general public affected by it. To ease out traffic snarls and general chaos around construction [...]

Follow the “Green” Brick Road?
Each year, roughly 25 million tons of fly ash from coal-fired power plants are recycled, generally as additives in building materials such as concrete, but 45 million tons go to waste. Fly ash bricks both find a use for some of that waste and counter the environmental impact from the manufacture [...]

MIT’s Amy Smith on appropriate engineering, Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, California. Food, water, medicine — in the developing world, these basic needs can be impossible to meet. Amy Smith and her students design smart, low cost tools to improve the life of the poorest in our world.
I remember traveling with my father as [...]

Engineers are responsible for solving a variety of increasingly-complex problems, but oftentimes nature has already figured out the best solutions. For example, velcro was invented in 1941 after a Swiss engineer looked under a microscope to see how the seeds of a burdock plant stuck to his socks. Before this time, there was no good [...]

While engineering advances have allowed for the construction of “hurricane proof” homes, such structures remain a rarity, even in the most vulnerable coastal areas of the United States. The reason: building homes that can withstand a Category 5 hurricane is prohibitively costly.
Kurt Gurley, associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Florida writes: [...]

Global warming has become a political crusade rather than a rational engineering policy decision. While educational and insightful, highly-publicized movies such as An Inconvenient Truth and Who Killed the Electric Car may only serve to polarize the issue even further. In light of such movies, Robert J. Samuelson writes in the Washington Post [...]

Ten million dollars is now at stake for engineers, scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs who create breakthrough hydrogen fuel technology in the next 10 years. On Wednesday, the House passed legislation creating the “H-Prize,” modeled after the privately funded Ansari X Prize on a 416-6 vote. A companion bill is to be introduced and [...]

MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors and Software Engineering came out number one! From money.cnn.com:
Why it’s great Software engineers are needed in virtually every part of the economy, making this one of the fastest-growing job titles in the U.S. Even so, it’s not [...]

How do you keep gas prices down in the face of a shaky energy policy? Engineers and legumes, of course. The Bush administration issued new rules on Wednesday improving gas mileage requirements for pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans, for the first time covering the largest SUVs on the road like the [...]

Engineers at NASA have found more than one use for their Laser Scaling and Measurement Device for Photographic Images (LSMDPI). This device, contained in a small black box, was initially designed to provide a non-intrusive means of adding a scale to a photograph of an object in space when there is no [...]