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Wired June 23, 2008 Chris Mooney	Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change? Geoengineering may be the necessary step to save our planet.
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 G. Pascal Zachary	The President and the E-Word When presidents call engineers by their first names, and when they don't. In the politics of technoscience, engineering has too long been ignored, or been conflated wrongly with science.
Job Journal February 19, 2006 Rich Heintz	Career Snapshot: Engineering Everything you need to know if you're considering a career in engineering in California.
Job Journal May 13, 2007	Career Snapshot: Civil & Structural Engineers California's crumbling infrastructure adds to a growing demand for civil and structural engineers.
Chemistry World September 19, 2013 Banholzer & Jones	Possible versus practical Scientists and engineers must do a better job assessing and explaining the difference between the subset of discoveries that offers practical solutions and the set that is simply possible.
Popular Mechanics February 20, 2010 Tyghe Trimble	Do Climate Scientists Need to Be More Transparent? Scientists at AAAS 2010 talk about the need for better transparency in science, particularly for climate research. Here is what they have to say.
Geotimes January 2007 Edward Derbyshire	International Collaboration in Global Science: Price or Prize? The UN triennium 2007 - 2009 International Year of Planet Earth aims to contribute to the improvement of everyday life, especially in less-developed countries, and by promoting the societal potential of the world's earth scientists.
Job Journal March 18, 2007	Career Snapshot: Mechanical Engineer Mechanical engineers have a blueprint for durable careers.
Reason November 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Subsidized Spin The Pentagon is spending $300,000 to send mid-career scientists, researchers, and engineers to a workshop at the television and screen writing school with the hope that some of these scientists will be inspired to produce a screenplay that paints scientists as cool.
Geotimes September 2007 Nicole Branan	Strange Bedfellows? Evangelicals and Scientists Join Forces on Climate Global warming is melting permafrost around the world, but earlier this year rising temperatures also led to the thawing of the notoriously frosty relations between scientists and evangelical Christians, triggering climate change of the political kind.
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever	Humans impact the climate, says AGU The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has adopted a new position statement on climate change that recognizes the increasing alteration of the Earth's climate by human activities.
BusinessWeek March 25, 2010 Eric Roston	Engineering the Earth Jeff Goodell sizes up the silver-bullet technologies that may be needed to combat rising planetary temperatures in his new book, "How to Cool the Planet"
HBS Working Knowledge September 6, 2006 Deborah Blagg	Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom In his course on commercializing science and technology, Lee Fleming combines students from business, engineering, law, science, and medicine. The result: Ideas for products from scale-eating bacteria to quantum dot cancer treatments.
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 William Sweet	Civility of Climate Fixing the Sky is about the history of weather modification schemes, while Merchants of Doubt mainly concerns missile defense, acid rain, ozone depletion, and secondhand tobacco smoke.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Engineered for Girls Web site encourages females to join engineering programs.
National Defense September 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Attracting New Blood Tougher Than Building Jets and ICBMs The recruitment and retention of young professionals -- especially those U.S.-born who can qualify for top-secret security clearances -- has senior aerospace executives feeling a bit anxious
Chemistry World July 27, 2011 Sean Milmo	UK government sets aside 1000 places for top researchers The UK chemistry sector has given a mostly cool response to a government scheme to attract top chemists, chemical engineers and other scientists from outside the EU, while tightening restrictions on immigration.
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Paul McFedries	Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words
Job Journal March 28, 2004 Rich Heintz	Demand for Engineers Building Demand remains firm for many engineering specialties. Includes a list of websites that are useful to job seekers.
National Defense January 2011 Cynthia D. Miller	Defense Department Embraces STEM Education Outreach The Defense Deaprtment hires more scientists and engineers, and sponsors more research and development projects than any other federal employer.
Geotimes April 2005 Michael Glantz	What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished.
Popular Mechanics December 1, 2009 Peter Kelemen	What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change What stolen e-mails from climate scientists corresponding with East Anglia University tell us about global warming and what they don't.
Financial Advisor June 2008 John E. Grable	The Engineer, Professor And Planner The allegory that follows is presented to all practicing financial planners in the hope of furthering the discussion of professionalism in the industry.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Jamieson & Norberg	The Mars Challenge Human exploration of the red planet will inspire new generations of engineers
Scientific American October 2006 Jeffrey D. Sachs	Fiddling While the Planet Burns Will the Wall Street Journal's editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change?
Chemistry World October 22, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Free legal help for embattled US scientists A pro bono network that will provide legal protection for US scientists in government and academia has been launched by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental group based in Washington, DC.
Scientific American August 2009 David Appell	Stumbling Over Data: Mistakes Fuel Climate-Warming Skeptics Do minor errors erode public support on climate issues?
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Susan Karlin	Extremist Engineers Why are so many jihadis engineers?
Chemistry World May 2007	Comment: A Matter of Ethics Scientists should embrace a universal ethical code.
IEEE Spectrum November 2009 Robert W. Lucky	Engineering Achievements: The Two Lists Will the grand engineering challenges of the 21st century be unlike the greatest achievements of the 20th?
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Prachi Patel-Predd	A League Of Extraordinary Women All too few girls consider engineering as a career, and the profession is the poorer for it, as talented individuals seek vocations elsewhere. But a new program is in the works in the United States to attract young women to engineering -- and to keep them in the career.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 John Blau	Passport to Engineering A new ID card will establish an engineer's credentials throughout the EU
Investment Advisor June 2009 Robert F. Keane	The Green Advisor: More On Climate Change Climate change can present some healthy investment opportunities for your clients, even if you don't believe it's real.
Outside July 2007 Amanda Griscom Little	Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Robert W. Lucky	U.S. Engineers and the Flat Earth The recent report concludes that high-quality jobs are necessary for both individual and national prosperity and that advances in science and engineering are needed to create such jobs.
Popular Mechanics July 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman	5 Climate Studies That Don't Live Up to Their Hype A leading climate scientist argues that overbroad claims by some researchers -- coupled with overblown reporting in the media -- can undermine the public's understanding of climate issues.
Science News April 11, 2009 Michel Jarraud	Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real.
Science News August 4, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Cloudy Crystal Balls Computer models may never be able to predict climate accurately.
Information Today November 9, 2009	Knovel Adds Engineering Cases to Showcase Real Problem Solving The articles, which are written by engineers and reviewed by experienced editors, highlight specific examples of how engineers have applied innovative and fresh approaches to both common and uncommon challenges
National Defense February 2014	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Technical Data Rights... No Shortage of Defense Engineers... Misuse of technical talent in the defense industry...
Chemistry World April 2, 2013 Kerek Lowe	From lab to leader Here's a topic that always gets people arguing: how much of a scientist should the chief executive of a biopharma company be?
Inc. October 2005 Shramm & Litan	Op-ed: Foreign Students Who Study Engineering Deserve Citizenship It's time that we stop envying China, and start making the U.S. a friendlier place for engineers.
Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick	Heat on U.S. Climate Policy Recent events have focused a spotlight on the Bush administration's position on climate change on both the international and national stage.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Robert W Lucky	Unsystematic Engineering If systems engineering is so valuable, why is it so seldom practiced? In recent years, a number of well-known universities have begun new programs in systems engineering. Maybe now is the time for these programs to become successful.
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IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Kieron Murphy	Q&A With: Michael Weiner We talk with the CEO of Biophan Technologies, a cutting-edge developer of biomedical device components about the industry, how his company fits into the med-tech market and how engineering contributes to improving quality of life.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community.
Popular Mechanics November 3, 2008 Andrew Moseman	How Geoengineering Works: 5 Big Plans to Stop Global Warming Some scientists believe that now is the time to research such proposals so that in 10 or 20 years, should governments fail to act, scientists have them at the ready.