For the past few days, us rocket scientists have been paying so much attention to the successful test of a new motor slated to be used on the Ares Rocket* that another event, possibly even more important has been overshadowed. The Augustine Report. Depending on if you are outside of the aerospace field, you may or may not have heard about this. Basically, President Obama sent the Augustine Commission to…

As we at K Exchange are relaxing after a strenuous weekend of watching American Football, we figure this is the perfect time to offer you a few links to get your week off on the right track. ENR has an interesting feature this week on cement. After 2000 years of use by our friends in the civil engineering and transportation engineering departments, the chemistry dept finally decoded cement’s basic molecular…

This is a special message for Engineering Students only, sorry professionals. How would you like to win a Kindle? What about a Wii? An iPod Nano? Maybe some Gift Cards? By nature, engineers are problem solvers and make technical decisions every day. Knovel’s University Challenge allows you to get hands on experience finding and using tools and information essential to your studies, work, and future projects. All while competing to…

I was about 10 minutes into a grad school course on Fatigue and Creep when the professor announced. “If you’re not a PE, you are not an engineer.” I had to choke back an immediate scathing reply, and proceeded to spend the next week fuming over his words. What about my degree? What about the last 2 and a half years working as an engineer? How dare he call me…

Knovel board member John Patrick was interviewed as part of the 2009 SLA conference back in June. A sincere thank you to SLA for this video: