Today I’d like to start with another Hulu video recommendation.
This time, it’s a oldie-but-goodie about the final-round competition between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The stringent requirements of the next-generation U.S. military strike fighter were well-characterized by Lockheed Martin’s X-35, which beat out Boeing’s X-32. After winning the government contract, the X-35 was renamed F-35.
The F-35 [...]
Back in February, I had written a post about the differences between science and engineering, titled “Science Isn’t Engineering; Engineering Isn’t Science.”
This morning, I came across a very interesting blog by a guy named Eric Drexler, who writes about science and technology at Metamodern.com. He elaborates more on the topic that I had superficially written [...]
In an article published yesterday, on March 18, 2009, Scientific American noted that “enrollment in undergraduate computer science and engineering programs is up in the U.S. and Canada for the first time since the dot-com bust.”
This might indicate that, in the current recession we are in, more students are turning toward “real” majors (of course, [...]
Science is not engineering. Engineering is not science. They are, however, similar.
Science is assumed to be the study of general truths, the observation of objects and processes, and the discovery of laws that govern the physical world and the phenomena that exist in it. Engineering, on the other hand, is the application of science and [...]