Electrical engineering's identity crisis
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The issue of electrical engineering's identity crisis and whether it has become vast and vital profession to become unrecognizably diffuse is discussed. The engineers are working with bigger and bigger functional blocks, assembling them with increasingly powerful tools and getting further from both the messiness and satisfactions of the real world.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2004
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Kids, do try this at home: we build a backyard cannon, and you can, too
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Whoosh Boom Splat contains instructions for building a compressed air cannon that shoots T-shirts. PVC pipes are the main equipment for this project and most other parts can be bought at a local hardware.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2007
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I, roboticist
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A robotic engineer makes a rather unsuccessful attempt to build a robot butler.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2005
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