I’ll admit, in the past I’ve been biased in favor of SpaceX. This has been for two reasons. First, I think they’re a company with a good product and philosophy. Second, I wouldn’t mind getting a paycheck from them. Turns out, I’m not the only person out there wanting to work for SpaceX. Instead of nice words in a public forum, somebody took a slightly different route. I’ve been hearing…

Good morning loyal readers. This week we have a special edition of the Monday Link Review coming to you live from the ASEE 2011 Conference in Vancouver! The show is set to start at any moment, so enjoy this week’s links, and head on over to booth 548 if you’re at the show to say hi. While at the ASEE conference, the importance of STEM education is at the forefront….

Pop Quiz: What’s worse than a 4 hour meeting about Total Quality Management? A 5 hour meeting about Total Quality Management. Does TQM have its place in the engineering environment? Without a doubt, yes it does. However, to force feed it to someone for four straight hours, then over run your time limit by another hour? That  is just pure torture! I’m really glad that every manager got the opportunity…

Good morning readers, and welcome to another edition of the K-Exchange Monday Link Review, your weekly source for the best science and engineering news from all over the world wide web. Seen the new X-Men film? It may not be as fantastic as you thought! According to a geneticist at the University of Montreal human beings are born with an average of 60 genetic mutations! Good news for anyone trying…

Recently, Knovel added Mining Engineering & Extractive Metallurgy as it’s 26th subject area. Jim Harper, Knovel’s Content Product Manager, was instrumental in the decision to add the Mining Subject area as well building the collection. I recently spoke with Jim about Mining. K-Exchange: Why did you decide to make Mining Engineering & Extractive Metallurgy the next Knovel Subject area? Jim Harper: Mining is a very large, very diverse field, and…