Engineers versus “Professors and College Men”

The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College

But this is understandable; it is from mummified remains that the best preserved evidence has been obtained. Like the written record and the art form (paintings, sculpture and the like), preserved remains are no less difficult to interpret, or are open to misinterpretation. As Wells states, 'It no longer seems extraordinary that palaeopathologists occasionally make a wrong diagnosis. The wonder...

Communicative Competence: Novice versus Professional Engineers' Perceptions

The notion of communicative competence has been deemed fuzzy in communication studies. This fuzziness has led to tensions among engineers across tenures in interpreting what constitutes communicative competence. The study seeks to investigate novice and professional engineers’ understanding of the said notion in terms of two main elements of communicative competence: linguistic and rhetorical c...

Visiting Professors

are called upon to undertake a great deal of work which is outside their terms of contract and which often takes them away for appreciable periods of time. The universities recognize this, for the work which is done in this way often helps to bring credit to the university and the contacts which are made bring distinguished visitors and may also attract junior staff and research workers of high...

Bringing System Engineers and Software Engineers Together

For system development projects, the proportion of the budget allocated to software development has been continually increasing in response to demand for system flexibility and maintainability. As a result, many technical organizations started by mechanical and electrical engineers now find themselves awash with software engineers. As system engineers see it, software people have different ways...

Perspectives of Fitness and Health in College Men and Women