As federal budget cuts kick in under the procedures known as sequestration, one of the more hotly debated casualties will be research and development funding...More
2003 Happy 50th Corvette!: Chevrolet is celebrating the Corvette’s 50th Anniversary by offering a special 50th Anniversary Edition package for the 2003 Corvette Coupe and convertible models...More
The EPA is fielding complaints from new-car buyers regarding overly optimistics fuel-efficiency ratings. But manufacturers, for the most part, get to do their own testing....More
If you happened to read a news item about a company that wanted to be Chinese, you might logically think that company was headquartered in Asia. You’d be wrong...More
Spring is in the air, and to many people, that means it’s time to pursue a national pastime. No, not baseball: evaluating last year’s employee performance goals and setting new ones...More
Most readers seem to have little use for Six Sigma programs, whether they be to improve innovation or quality. But there are readers who think Six Sigma was never meant for improving innovation...More
There are times when something that appears obsolete can open doors to other opportunities. There is no place in which this is more apparent than in a career path. Take mine, for example...More
As machinations over the fiscal cliff make headlines, they have pushed worries about the U.S. trade deficit out of the public consciousness. That’s too bad because much of our current economic woe stems from the loss of whole manufacturing industries to Asia...More
People are already rejecting e-mail as their main form of communication in their social lives and are starting to do so at work. What does this mean for engineering organizations and why should you care?...More