Civil or transport engineering failures are very public. They tend to get investigated far more thoroughly than typical mechanical engineering prob...

Anyone actually enjoy quoting? For such an important part of daily business the process of establishing prices to offer a customer seems universall...

A few weeks ago I blogged about a disappointing shopping experience at a once-pre-eminent retailer. I must not have been the only unhappy customer ...

We all got a lesson in leadership from that unfortunate collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a container ship off the coast of Japan. The Na...

When a consultant’s phone rings they never know what the client or potential client may need. Sadly, calls frequently involve sorting out messes th...

Much of my gear career has involved the oil patch, so it was a treat to tour the Drake Oil Well Museum near Titusville Pennsylvania recently. Colon...

Once in a while we need to take a break from the “honey do” list and start becoming familiar with our community. A trip to a nearby state park that...

Another one of those graduate student requests turned up in my e-mail inbox this week. This one referenced one of my AGMA Fall Technical Meeting pa...

Other than the fireworks, it is a quiet day for most of us here in the United States. We need this annual holiday to remind us that, despite the ve...

I have been listening to Story Corps on National Public Radio for many years. The program shares audio recordings made in booths that trav...