Your Engineering Heritage: Many Electrical Engineering Terms Are Older Than You Might Think
Electrical and computer engineering may be relatively young disciplines, but much of the t...More
14 Dec 2016
Category: History Column
The IEEE History Center’s REACH Program Pilots in New Jersey High School
Excitement, intrigue and laughter filled two global history classrooms at Manalapan High S...More
15 Nov 2016
Engineering Hall of Fame: Reginald Fessenden
October marks the sesquicentennial of an important, but often overlooked, figure in engine...More
21 Oct 2016
Your Engineering Heritage: Could We be Heroes – or Role Models?
Modern engineers merit societys praise and publicity for their technical and financial acc...More
16 Aug 2016
Going Rogue: A Brief History of the Computerized Dungeon Crawl
Possibly more than any other gaming system, Dungeons and Dragons influence on the developm...More
7 Jul 2016
The Tesla Almost Nobody’s Heard Of: Frank Fowle and Alternating Current Transposition
Frank Fuller Fowle, a pioneer of long-distance transmission of electric power and of telep...More
20 Jun 2016
Your Engineering Heritage: Edison, the Electrical Engineer, Spearheaded Central Station Business
By the summer of 1878, Thomas Edison was exhausted by both constant work and new-found cel...More
20 May 2016
Engineering Hall of Fame: Claude Shannon & Paul Baran – Pioneers of the Internet Age
On 30 April, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Claude E. Shannon, fo...More
6 Apr 2016
Your Engineering Heritage: Scanners and Computer Image Processing
Modern scanners can reproduce extremely high dots per inch (DPI) copies of media in second...More
8 Feb 2016