It’s sitting there on my desk… staring at me. For 2 weeks I’ve tried to hide, tried to cover it up, but it keeps resurfacing only to silently chide me. It’s my renewal notice from AIAA and I don’t know what to do with it. If you belong to an organization which pays for your professional memberships, consider yourself lucky, but not all of us are so graciously fated. And…

Welcome to another edition of K Exchange’s Monday Link Review, your weekly dose of fun, interesting and informative Engineering links to get your week off to a good start. We may be several months behind on this, but back in April Science-Bookmarks did a really good post on the World’s Most Expensive Engineering Projects. A link we’d like to dedicate to our friend, Craig the Rocket Scientist, we found this…

In 1984, when IBM introduced the 80286 microprocessor chip, the MS-DOS operating system was unable to take advantage of the improved speed and address capacity of the new chip.  A popular urban legend has Bill Gates asking,  “Why would anyone need more than 640KB?”  Fast forward a few years and Gates was requiring his engineers to develop on hardware that was two years old – ancient by software developer standards,…

Today, Knovel announces the formation of an Editorial Advisory Board. The Board is composed of a multidisciplinary group of industry experts and academic luminaries who will work with us to ensure Knovel’s product development is in front of engineers’ workflow needs. All together the Board has more than one hundred years experience in engineering; Knovel only has been around for nine years. Beginning this summer, we’ve been tapping into the…

Welcome back to  K Exchange’s Monday Link Review, your weekly dose of fun, interesting and informative links intended to get you ready to face your work week. With the autumnal equinox set to hit at exactly 5:18pm EDT, this serves as the last summer edition of 2009, so break out the sandals and the sun tan lotion one more time as we take a look around the internet. The Curious…