Flood Risk Management: How Engineering Can Help
Hurricane Florence hit the Carolinas stronger than expected this weekend. Even when it weakened to a tropical depression, this hurricane has brought record rain levels, and flood damages might surpass…
Hurricane Florence hit the Carolinas stronger than expected this weekend. Even when it weakened to a tropical depression, this hurricane has brought record rain levels, and flood damages might surpass…
More than 100,000 students get a degree in engineering every year. Being one of the most sought-after careers nowadays, competition for jobs must be fierce. With somewhere around 40 engineering…
Throughout the years, humanity has had a fascination with building structures more and more challenging, functional, and useful for a common good. Mankind keeps overcoming its natural limitations thanks to…
Engineers are the problem solvers of life by excellence. Whenever they need to solve a problem by designing a machine, a system, a computer program, etcetera, the team in charge of the…
Climate Engineering, also known as geoengineering, is a field of engineering that aims towards fighting climate change. The ultimate goal of climate engineering is to reverse the impact of greenhouse gases, carbon…
Since the implementation of solar energy as an alternative to fossil fuels to generate electrical power, solar engineering has been a difficult and bumpy road for specialists in the field. Even when…
California is in a state of emergency, as the wildfires return to wreak havoc, this time in the south. The lack of precipitation and moisture, dry vegetation, and wind are…
On May 15, 1907, 110 acres of land were auctioned off to J.T. McWilliams by the railroad company. The area between Steward Avenue, Garces Avenue, Main Street, and Fifth Street…
1927 Elsie Eaves American Society of Civil Engineers names first female member. 1934 Grace Hopper Computer scientist graduates from Yale with a Ph. D. in math goes on to be…
If you have been paying attention to the news lately, you are aware of the limitations that President Trump has put on the Environmental Protection Agency. Among the most…
Love Your Work, and Live Your Life It’s an exciting profession, but one of its greatest advantages is that it will leave you time for all the other things in…
This week is “Infrastructure Week” and before it ends, let’s learn about this plan that The White House has presented to rebuild America’s infrastructure. The White House has held events…
