***Editor’s Note: The “I Became An Engineer” blog runs every friday. To share your story email sarah.goncalves@advantagemedia.com*** This week’s story is brought to us by reader Gene Cross. These are the things that made me want to become an engineer: My third grade teacher was passionate about astronomy, and she passed that passion and love […]
I Became An Engineer: Because I Was Sick of School
***Editor’s Note: The “I Became An Engineer” blog runs every friday. To share your story email sarah.goncalves@advantagemedia.com*** This week’s story is brought to us by reader Robert Esse. I grew up on a farm in central Minnesota, and when I graduated from high school, I wanted no more schooling. I worked for two years laboring […]
I Became An Engineer: Because I Set Fire to the Mattress
***Editor’s Note: The “I Became An Engineer” blog runs every friday. To share your story email sarah.goncalves@advantagemedia.com*** This week’s story is brought to us by reader Jeffrey Lapak, Enterprise Industry and Operations Strategic Manager & Associate Director, UNH-IOL. I suppose I was interested in engineering before I could even form real memories. When I was […]
I Became An Engineer: Because of Genetics
***Editor’s Note: The “I Became An Engineer” blog runs every friday. To share your story email sarah.goncalves@advantagemedia.com*** This week’s story is brought to us by reader David Toler. My father attended school into the sixth grade when he wasn’t busy farming and had about a third-grade reading level. He worked as a general repairman at the coal […]
Cheers: Autonomous Truck Successfully Delivers 45,000 Cans of Beer
Ladies and gentlemen, the first commercial delivery made by a self-driving truck was actually a 120-mile beer run. Last Thursday, Otto, Uber’s self-driving truck subsidiary, shipped over 45,000 cans of Budweiser from Fort Collins, Colorado to Colorado Springs, marking what executives at Otto and Anheuser-Busch are calling the “first revenue-generating load transported via autonomous truck.” […]
I Became An Engineer: Because of My Uncle’s Girlfriend’s Brother-in-Law
***Editor’s Note: The “I Became An Engineer” blog runs every friday. To share your story email sarah.goncalves@advantagemedia.com*** This week’s story is brought to us by reader Rudy Schneider. After reading what led several other of my colleague engineers to choose their path, I figured I had an equally good story to tell… As if growing […]
I Became An Engineer: Because of a Hypothetical Hovercraft
***Editor’s Note: The “I Became An Engineer” blog runs every friday. To share your story email sarah.goncalves@advantagemedia.com*** This week’s story is brought to us by reader Michael Eiselt, director, advanced technology, ADVA Optical Networking. I first got into engineering when I was about 16 or 17, not too long before I finished school. I was […]
I Became an Engineer: Because I Loved Languages
***Editor’s Note: The “I Became An Engineer” blog runs every friday. To share your story email sarah.goncalves@advantagemedia.com*** This week’s story is brought to us by reader Kathy Grise, Senior Program Director, IEEE Future Directions, IEEE Senior Member, Organizing Committee Member, upcoming IEEE Technology Time Machine conference. I grew up in Washington, Pennsylvania in the only […]
This MIT Game Lets You Choose Who Lives and Dies in a Self-Driving Car Wreck
This sounds like it’s straight out of an Ethics 101 class. Science recently published a study demonstrating an interesting paradox: people who agree with the idea of a “utilitarian” autonomous vehicle (one that sacrifices the least amount of people in the event something goes wrong) prefer to ride in a vehicle programmed to protect its […]
Will Nissan’s Self-Driving Chairs Get a Standing Ovation?
Lots of folks are on the fence about autonomous cars; naturally, the notion that a driver wouldn’t be in control of a vehicle as it’s cruising down the road alongside dozens of others is scary to think about. So, as far as self-driving human transport devices go, perhaps this next invention will be technology’s olive […]