I bristle at our industry’s frequent promotion of technology road maps. They make the entire engineering-design process seem so mundane and routine: we’ll do this, then that, then this, and poof, ...

Software engineering isn’t “software engineering.” I didn’t make that clear three weeks ago in this space, when I wrote that “software engineering” is to engineering what fantasy baseball is to ...

The essence of creative engineering is working not with a blank sheet of paper to create an optimum result, but working within tight boundaries to come up with an acceptable outcome. On June 17, 1998, ...