Abstract: An engineer's education needs to contain more than just technical courses if he or she is to function as an educated person in today's complex society. Several of these peripheral areas of knowledge are presented. The ...

Abstract: Written communication is an important, however often neglected, component of an engineering curriculum. The civil engineering department at North Dakota State University has included word processing in its CE 101 course ...

Abstract: Increased emphasis on design courses by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has caused many engineering schools to reevaluate the design component of their curricula. To make the transition from ...