The personal assistant has long been considered a benefit exclusive to the very wealthy and powerful. Today, advances in technology and a plethora of digital sites and products make interacting with your own personal assistant as easy as the touch of a button or a simple voice command ...
You have a balance scale and six weights. What is the fewest number of times you need to use the balance scale in order to positively identify the heavier weight in each pair?
Just before midnight on a cool, moonless night in March 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending 13 billion gallons of water in the form of a ten-story high torrent crashing along the Santa Clara riverbed towards the ocean ...
A community service corporation was established for the purpose of revitalizing a city’s downtown area. A consultant recommended building an “off-price mall” in the downtown area, but the project stalled and was never executed...
New Year, New Quiz! Here's 2021's first Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?
It’s inevitable that at some point in your career, you will be required to participate in some form of public speaking, whether this is presenting a new design, promoting a product or plan to a client, or reflecting upon and sharing what you’ve learned throughout your career to an audience ...
You have two small cups filled with water and an empty bucket. How can you dump all of the water out of the cups and into the bucket and tell which water came from which cup, without using any dividers of any kind?
Just for the sake of discussion, let’s say that you were so wrapped up in the holidays, family, and 2020 in general, that you actually missed your PE license renewal. What now? ...
Engineer Brad is the principal in a new engineering firm that has been in existence for approximately 18 months. All of the engineers in the firm have come from other engineering firms. Brad develops a ...
On the days preceding February 26, 1972, Buffalo mining officials kept an eye on a local coal refuse dam in Logan County, West Virginia, as heavy rain continuously fell. The company measured water levels ...
