Engineering Ethics Blog

Trapped Under the Sea is the most exciting book you'll ever read about a sewage plant.  Let me explain.

One day, a colleague of mine was asked to sum up engineering ethics in a single sentence, and he said, "No headlines....

Anyone even a little familiar with how higher education is done these days has dealt with what are called "learning management systems" (LMS for short).  Basically, an LMS is what has replaced paper homework, paper gradebooks, and in many cases, paper exams that used to be shuffled back and forth between stude...

As I write, Iran continues its effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a quarter to a third of the world's petroleum traffic normally passes.  Though opposed by most other countries including the U. S., Iran has succeeded both in surprising the rest of the world with its blockade and in maint...

For good or ill, many things that start in California spread to the rest of the U. S. sooner or later, from Hollywood movies to the Hula Hoop.  So when California's Assembly Bill No. 1777 takes effect this July, companies such as Waymo that operate robotaxis across the country may feel its effects outside just...