Engineering humor thrives on the absurd that often seems plausible and sensible. Engineers can take the obvious and turn it into a 12-step experiment. The punchline comes when an engineer solves a ...

Classic engineering humor is smart, clever, witty, and sometimes dumb. If we missed any great ones, send them along and we’ll do a readers’ collection. Rob Spiegel has covered manufacturing for 19 ...

Dr. Ray Ridley, who has been designing and researching power supplies for over 35 years, has created a cartoon series that reflects the current climate in our industry. It's a special day so we ...

Volkswagen of America has set ambitious U.S. growth goals and is marketing itself as a German brand people can afford, stressing German engineering and sprinkling in a bit of humor, says head marketer ...

Writing my editor’s note this week got me thinking about my favorite engineering and physics jokes. Have you heard the one about the dairy farmer meeting his daughter's fiancé? The young man is a ...

To complement the wonderful, mischievous and clever practical jokes you've sent in during the past couple of weeks, I wanted to see if we could tease out some good stories from the floor of DesignCon ...

"Prompt engineering" became the hot new AI thing (salaries north of $300K), then went through kind of a "trough of disillusionment" but seems to have recovered its "no this is a real thing" reputation ...