Career Education for Engineers Learned from Traditional Craftsmen and Handicrafts

Lessons Learned from a Successful Collaboration Between Software Engineers and Human Interface Engineers

Most software applications are difficult to use because the development process emphasizes the quality of the architecture and not the usability of the application. Programs can be both well engineered and usable if software engineers work with human interface engineers who not only design the user interface but advocate architectural decisions that help make tasks more natural for users. Our g...

Occupational Handicrafts

A Road Map for Civil Engineers towards Bridge Engineering Through Academic Education and Professional Training

It is common in many countries that engineers having an academic degree in Civil Engineering are appointed responsible for different tasks related to Bridge Engineering. However, there are serious questions about whether formal university courses in civil engineering could cover the needs of a bridge engineer to fulfill his or her job successfully. Regarding the recent significant advances in t...

Teacher Education and Career Outcomes

This paper analyzes how public school teachers make educational decisions and the effects that these decisions have on their future labor market outcomes. In particular, it looks at the impact of college options and characteristics on the recent increase in the incidence of master’s degrees for employed teachers. Teachers’ education and career decisions are modeled via a dynamic framework in th...

Crude craftsmen.

THIS MORNING, ladies and gentlemen, I have the honour and pleasure of addressing you on behalf of the consultant medical staff of this great hospital. A task approached with some diffidence for unlike so many of my illustrious predecessors I am neither orator, historian, scientist or philosopher, but simply one of a long line of crude craftsmen the title of my address who have endeavoured since...