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Posts published in “Expedition Engineering”

A lesson in the cost of engineering

I messed up big time. I forgot to write a good article for this week. I had an idea. A terrific plan to unmask Big Sister before the student body, but something got in the way (cough, cough, Big Sister herself intervened), and now I’m here last-minute, struggling to come up with something to blow you all away.

Story engineers. Myth, legend, or mastery

Imagination is the yellow-brick road to engineering success. Last time on Expedition Engineering, I dove into the reality that engineers are humanities students.

Stop pretending engineers should work with humanities

Engineers shouldn’t work with humanities. Radical as that sounds, the forced pairing between engineers and humanities creates resentment. Students meander through their essays, confused as to why they, as people who think in numerical systems, need to interpret Shakespeare.

Engineering a conspiracy theory

Truth forms when creativity meets reality. The reality dawned on me in my second semester, when I noticed the erratic behaviors of technology.