Engineering Careers & Management

An inventor must have tenacity, stamina, and understand that nobody gets to the top alone

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan,” said architect Eliel Saarinen. I also wrote about this idea in “A Step Up”

There seems to be a consensus among readers we heard from that the government and big business aren’t providing much in the way of training for science and technology jobs and careers while cutting way back on real R&D

It sometimes seems that professions and workers represented by unions do better than those without them. Examples include school teachers, autoworkers, airline pilots, state-employed doctors and dentists, and a host of others

The economic recession has abated somewhat, and hiring is on the upswing. Now you’re more likely to read about the travails of those interviewing for employment rather than people downsized out of jobs