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Your Engineering Heritage: Daylight Saving Time in World War I and the Electrical Industry
For the last fifty years in the United States, autumn has been a time when the clocks fall back an hour to end daylight saving time. But, why?
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Large Language Models: The Transformative Force Shaping the 21st Century
It is important that we understand how Large Language Models (LLMs) work and are evolving, as they can and are shaping how we work and interact daily.
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Tugboat Technology
Maneuvering tankers weighing as much as 200,000 tons, with variable factors, takes enormous precision and skill…and a lot of tugboat tech.
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Four Ways You Should be Using ChatGPT Today
ChatGPT is an exciting advancement for AI, and supports the idea that we all will start incorporating these technologies into our everyday jobs.
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Ada Henry Van Pelt and the Electric Water Purifier
Remembering Ada Henry Van Pelt, the extraordinary inventor who has been referred to as “The Woman Edison” for her ingenuity.
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Warning: PTAB Is Hazardous to America’s Competitive Health
Guest contributor James Edwards says the gamesmanship at and weaponization of PTAB turn it into a powerful tool against American innovators.
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“No Clear Substitutes”: Supply Chain Interruptions and How Engineers Approached Them in the Past
These IEEE History Center oral histories emphasized that supply chains are about people as much as they are about materials.
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“Carbon Queen” Mildred Dresselhaus
Now is a good time to remind readers of the "Carbon Queen," Mildred Dresselhaus, the first woman to win the IEEE Medal of Honor.
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OP-ED: Get Software Right: License Software Engineers
In this Op-Ed, past IEEE Computer Society President Jim Isaak says software PE licensing in the U.S. has been all but ignored, and then abandoned.
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Ida Henrietta Hyde and the Micro-Electrode
Hyde's electrode is the earliest known micro-electrode for intracellular work, but she received little recognition in her lifetime for her invention.
