What Industry Vets Have to Say About their New Hires! In Part 1 of “From Classroom to Career,” I wrote about the lack of corporate mentoring programs as a major factor in the knowledge gap between young engineers and industry vets. This time around, I reached out to veteran engineers to ask their perspective on the knowledge gap and how engineers could spur greater mentoring initiatives in their offices. Encouragingly…

            Do Young Engineers Need Better Mentoring Programs? As a Marketing Manager for Knovel,  I recently reached out to young engineers for their unique insight about the knowledge gap between the retiring baby boomers and those just entering the workplace. In conversations I’ve had, Gen Y engineers say they aren’t receiving enough direction and mentoring within the corporate environment. “New graduates are given higher levels…

Knovel works with hundreds of customers to support rollout, implementation, and user adoption. One such example comes from Ingersoll Rand.

The 2010 season of the Knovel University Challenge started breaking records almost instantly.

This is a special message for Students in Engineering  & Science only, sorry professionals. How would you like to win a  $500 cash prize ? What about an iPad ? iPod Nano? Maybe some other cool stuff ? By nature, engineers are problem solvers and make technical decisions every day. The Knovel University Challenge allows you to get hands on experience finding and using tools and information essential to your…