Why engineers should rule the world.

Engineering is the art of solving problems by making the best assumptions and simplifications. One who masters this technique can do anything, and this is why I believe that Engineers should rule the world. Society acts as a machine, and like any machine no one can completely understand every change in the system, one can [...]

To get a masters or not.

So Here i am, already getting in tremendous amounts of debt, and looking at the types of jobs I could get with a bachelors. Well the average starting salary for a student with a chemical engineering bachelors degree is $54,000, while the average starting salary for a masters in chemical engineering is 57,000 per year, [...]

Free text books, good idea?

I wonder sometimes why text books are so darn expensive. I mean my girlfriend just spent 1400 dollars on her books for one simester. My Chemistry book was 200 dollars. Now I know that publishers take risks, and need to make money but 200 a book is a little steep! I look online at books [...]

Why Engineers dont want America to drill more of its oil deposits.

There is an energy crisis. China has a population of 1.6 billion and India has a population of over 1 billion. These countries are rapidly developing, and the citizens of these countries are demanding the same living standard found in the European Union and USA. This high living standard includes many luxeries such as television, [...]