Wit and Wisdom of an Engineer: Education

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Thursday, September 14, 2017

Monday, August 14, 2017

City Transit 2.0

City Transit has been completely revised, updated, restructured, and expanded to 24 cities. Please take a look!https://t.co/UyFuxAD9S4 pic.twitter.com/U1kJ2g31IW
— peter dovak (@pdovak) August 7, 2017

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

The Benefits of Urban Mobility

London’s New Subway Symbolized the Future. Then Came Brexit. https://t.co/VDnmVewkVF
— Dr.Steven D.Sanders (@DocEngineering) August 3, 2017

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

What Engineers Can Learn from Dentists

Article in the Washington Post.

Monday, July 3, 2017

Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities

Link to the site.

The Alt-Right Might Review Your Next Design

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Summer Reading List

New to the book bag - -

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World by Brad Stone
Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival by Jeffrey Gettleman
One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams by Chris Fussell
Qatar: A Modern History by Allen Fromherz
Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas Ricks
CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping by Kerry Brown
Island People: The Caribbean and the World by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Wheat Outlook

A drought in the Dakotas spells trouble for the U.S. wheat harvest. https://t.co/cwaLDV3ysL via @grist
— Dr.Steven D.Sanders (@DocEngineering) July 1, 2017

Friday, June 30, 2017

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Round One of the Driverless Revolution

From Medium - - might be where the initial wave of driverless investment is focused.

Great stats from The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant - -

Sales by brand in the best selling categories - - Toyota Corolla (43 million units), Sony PlayStation (382 million units), Harry Potter series (430 million books) - - and the iPhone with one billion units.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

MS OneNote in the Engineering Classroom

Sunday, June 18, 2017

A 10-Year Education Plan

The Essential Education: If You Had Ten Years to Learn Anything, What Would You Do? https://t.co/QTf1rYS1L5 via @scotthyoung
— Dr.Steven D.Sanders (@DocEngineering) June 19, 2017

Friday, June 16, 2017

A Paragraph to Ponder

From the Wall Street Journal by Lawrence Haas - a review of Edward Luce's The Retreat of Western Liberalism -

" . . . every single of America's 493 wealthiest counties, almost all of them urban, voted for Hillary Clinton. The remaining 2,623 counties, most of them suburban or small-town, went for Donald Trump."