Month: December 2008

  • An explanation, an article, and a memelet…

    First of all I thought it would be worth posting a little more of an explanation about the title of this blog. Legend has it that the physicist Ernest Rutherford walked into his lab one day and announced “Well boys, we are very short of money so we must begin to think.” I like this…

  • Another call for change…

    I was directed to the article linked above by First Bell, a service that provides daily summaries of news on engineering and engineering education to ASEE members. The article from EE Times is worth reading if you haven’t been following the debate in why engineering education needs to be reformed. In brief, James Plummer, Stanford’s…