Abstract: Engineering education today is education for a new millenium. Revolutionary changes are in progress as to the number and quality of students and faculty available, the status of campus facilities, the range of courses ...

Abstract: As engineering activity becomes increasingly complex, ethical dilemmas without precedent are arising, straddling the technological and legal fields, and evoking emotions that previous generations of engineers have not had ...

Abstract: Civil engineering seems to be going through a crisis period in which it is captive of its illustrious past, its links with government activity, and its mid tech posture. Many are seeking to consolidate and enhance its ...

Abstract: The construction industry, the largest industry in America, is in disarray because of high costs, sliding productivity, marginal profits, and high turnover. Research and development (R&D) in the industry is at present ...

Abstract: Research has been the basic academic prerogative for decades now. It has ensured that course material taught by professors was up‐to‐date, and it has provided a pool of ideas that industry needed to renew its competitiveness. ...

Abstract: Technology policy is an idea whose time has come. It has touched a responsive chord in the body politic in the face of the Japanese business challenge. It is provoking debates in Congress and the media as to the best modus ...

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) may be the key to the fate of civilization as we know it, a mind‐boggling concept which, if realized in practice, would change the human condition far more than all previous developments of ...