Putting aside the sexism of the presentation – an expected feature of pretty much anything from 1922 – this ad exaggerates the importance of engineering to a degree that makes me uncomfortable. I wish that our profession lived up to the standard being presented here.
Some years ago, I read How Experiments End by Peter Galison. A book on the history of science, and specifically on some fairly esoteric issues in physics, doesn’t have a strong connection to our work, but I saw one there anyway. One of the questions addressed in the book is the one posed by the …
Most of the time, there are few topics more boring than professional practice. As long as a lawyer I’m talking to has passed the bar exam and is licensed, for example, I don’t care about the details of their continuing education. Every once in a while, a problem in this topic crops up in an …
