Editor’s Perspective

Harry Potter and the vanishing engineer Is engineering in the doldrums? Blame it on Harry Potter. In a recent Viewpoint, editor Christina Nickolas asked

A salute to innovation With all the brouhaha over the outsourcing of engineering jobs, it bears repeating that the true engine of commerce is innovation,Continue

Would you recommend an EE degree to your child? Recently I had the opportunity to volunteer as a judge in a science and technology fairContinue

Out with the old, in with which new? I recently received a press release from dotPhoto, a digital photography Web site, on the new 4xDContinue

Out-of-this-world electronics Wow, and congratulations! That's my reaction to what the scientists and engineers at NASA have accomplished with the success of the

It's all about the gadgets Going to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, is one of my highlights for the year, as itContinue

Pursuing portable

I hate Moore's Law! I hate Moore's Law! That storable information on silicon promises to double every year –or 18 months, it's still a shortContinue

Brave newer world The gap in technical knowledge in America is sometimes so wide that it seems to represent two completely different cultures. As technicallyContinue