An Engineer in DC

Often, when one is trying to navigate the twisted pile of spaghetti that is the DC roadway system, there comes a case of information overloa...

Everybody else is blogging about the BP oil spill, so I thought I'd join the fray.  But from an engineering perspective. As the annals...

At some leadership class, I learned "The Law of Requisite Parsimony."  Despite its having a ridiculous name, it's a fun and us...

The Deepwater Horizon oil well continues to spew crude oil into the Caribbean at a rate of 210,000 gallons per day.  Initial attempts at usi...

Just because we have gigabytes (and even terabytes) of storage available on our modern computers, it's no reason that programs need to...

The bag men have it tough these days. See, despite the brand spankin' new C-note unveiled by the Treasury Department a few days ago, ...

Other posts are in the works, but I thought I'd take a minute to do some navel-gazing on a timely post about going back to the moon . ...

Ever since electricity started to be used to do useful work, there has been a drive towards increasing our ability to store that energy in a...