Riddle Me This: Colored Weights
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?
The St. Francis Dam Collapse
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 ...
The January Ethical Dilemma: Client’s Best Interest
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...
January Pop Quiz for Engineers
New Year, New Quiz! Here's 2021's first Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?
How to Become a Better Public Speaker
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 ...
Riddle Me This: Two Cups and a Bucket
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?
