An Engineer's Hope

An Introduction for Control Engineers

Are software engineers true engineers?

Are software engineers engineers? Or more exactly: Can software engineers legitimately be called engineers? This is an ambiguous question. Its interpretation depends on the situation in which it is asked. It might be asked in a situation in which practice-oriented engineering disciplines have more chances to be sponsored publicly: In this case it would be the question if software engineering sh...

An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

Version v2.10b (February 22, 2009) This is the electronic edition of Feedback Systems and is available from http://www.cds.caltech.edu/∼murray/amwiki. Hardcover editions may be purchased from Princeton Univeristy Press, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8701.html. This manuscript is for personal use only and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, without written consent from the publisher ...

An empirical analysis of engineers' information behaviors

The importance of the acquisition and provision of information within knowledge work such as engineering is widely acknowledged. This article reports an extensive empirical study of such information behaviors in engineers, using a novel and effective work samplingmethod. Seventy-eight design engineers each carried a portable handheld computer (PDA) for 20 working days. Once every hour, they wer...

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...