The Professional Engineer

Consulting-Specifying Engineer Announces Winners of 2012 40 Under 40 Award

MRDPE — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:51:24 +0000

PRESS RELEASE May 14, 2012 OAK BROOK, Ill. — Consulting-Specifying Engineer has announced the recipients of the 2012 40 Under 40 award. This award is given to 40 building industry professionals age 40 and younger who stand out in all aspects of their lives. To read a profile of each winner, visit http://www.csemag.com/40under40. Candidates were [...]

Mechanical PE Exam Study Guide

MRDPE — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:47:41 +0000

The Mechanical PE Exam Strategies book is a result of one engineer’s endless searches for a mechanical PE exam study guide. It contains all the tactics he used to pass the mechanical PE exam and some great information to help you makes things go smoothly. It will help you in every stage of preparation for [...]

Driving Business Execution Through Integrated Talent Management

MRDPE — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:34:39 +0000

Free white paper to help you discover how you can leverage talent management processes to drive business execution at your engineering firm. Your Human Resources (HR) staff has the knowledge and tools to play a central role in driving business execution. Yet many HR organizations find it challenging to show how the talent management processes [...]

International Association of Engineers Online Journals

MRDPE — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:36:21 +0000

The International Association of Engineers (IAENG) has announced that the new issues of their Journals are available. All the papers in their journals are available freely with online full-text content and permanent worldwide web links indicated below: Engineering Letters Current Issue: Volume 20 Issue 1 http://www.engineeringletters.com/current_issue.html IAENG International Journal of Computer Science Current Issue: Volume 39, Issue 1 http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/current_issue.html [...]

EPA Launches New Green Infrastructure Website

MRDPE — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:12:01 +0000

EPA’s Office of Water is pleased to announce the release of its new Green Infrastructure website to better communicate the “what, why, and how” of green infrastructure to municipalities, developers, and the general public. Green infrastructure uses vegetation, soils and natural processes to manage water and create healthier urban environments. The new Green Infrastructure website is a [...]

IEEE-USA News: ‘Electrons Don’t Come From Heaven,’ According to CMTC Speaker

MRDPE — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:10:40 +0000

NEWS from IEEE-USA 2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036-4928 ‘Electrons Don’t Come From Heaven,’ Speaker will Say at Carbon Management Technology Conference in Orlando WASHINGTON (25 January 2012) – Heated discussions are underway concerning the impact of advanced electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and current hybrid EVs on [...]

DOE Webinars: Wind Powering America Initiative to Present 2012 Series

MRDPE — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:24:54 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America initiative will present a series of monthly webinars in 2012 beginning this Wednesday, January 18, at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). In the first of this series, Wind Powering America will host a discussion about recent activities that support increased market adoption of wind power technologies. [...]

Canadian astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk to speak at Memorial University

MRDPE — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:19:27 +0000

St. John’s, NL – The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland is pleased to announce Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk will offer a presentation at the winter edition of Speaking of Engineering. Dr. Thirsk’s presentation will focus on his experiences from living in space for six months aboard [...]

IEEE-USA Supports Inventors’ Rights in Brief before U.S. Supreme Court, Oral Arguments Heard Today

MRDPE — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:43:41 +0000

NEWS from IEEE-USA 2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036-4928 IEEE-USA Supports Inventors’ Rights in Brief before U.S. Supreme Court, Oral Arguments Heard Today WASHINGTON (9 January 2012) –A brief IEEE-USA filed in support of inventors’ rights was part of a case the U.S. Supreme Court heard today. “The court reviewed inventors’ rights [...]

EWeek Chair ASME Launches “Get Involved in EWEEK” Web Page

MRDPE — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:19:37 +0000

ASME has added an EWEEK 2012 page to their Website’s Get Involved section. Resources and links are designed to guide volunteer leaders –and others — in cultivating engineer workforce development. Click here. ASME’s Engineers Week 2012 video shines a light on students practicing hands-on engineering and having fun doing it! High school teens design and build robots [...]