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Careers: Why Should I Hire You?

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“Good engineers aren’t necessarily good interviewees,” says Ken Pohl, an engineering consultant in Tampa Bay, Fla.

Hijacking the Engineering Profession

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The National Society of Professional Engineers wants every engineer to be licensed, or possibly face legal action.

Changes in the Engineering Profession Over 80 Years

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A brief look at how the engineering profession has fared over the last eight decades.

How to Develop Products like Toyota

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One conclusion increasingly drawn from Toyota’s system is that many U.S. manufacturers have gone off track with their own development efforts. In fact, some of the processes they’ve adopted in the name of speed and quality have actually had the opposite effect.

Engineering in India

Here’s a snapshot of the Indian engineers who increasingly compete for global manufacturing work.

Invention Mythology 101

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There is a lot of misinformation circulating about patents. Blind belief in IP fables can be expensive.

Leland Teschler's Editorial: Good News/Bad News: A Labor Shortage, but Not for Engineers

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With the unemployment rate at a 26-year-high point, it may seem odd to be talking about a looming labor shortage.

Why Johnny Can't Do Algebra

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The algebra teacher I had in high school left a lot to be desired.

Is the design engineer extinct?

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Skilled design engineers seem to be disappearing from the U.S., to the detriment of companies that develop products in America.

New Engineering Textbooks

Springer Handbook of Mechanical Engineering, Model-Based Predictive Control: A Practical Approach, Design for Environmental Sustainability, Variable Speed Drives: Principles and Applications for Energy Cost Savings, 3rd Edition

Industry Experts Forecast Future Changes in the Technologies

Industry experts forecast the changes in the technologies on which they rely.

Industrial Design: Design the Dyson Way

An art student created a revolutionary vacuum cleaner without knowing a thing about CAD , CFD, or why his idea wouldn’t work. What’s the lesson for other inventors?

Leland Teschler's Editorial: The Statistics of Dumb Mistakes

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Friedman used regression analysis on data about alloy strength versus temperature.