That’s usually how I answer the question, “What do you do?” If you and I were to be waiting in a long line at the grocery store, or if we were to sit next to each other in church, or if we shared the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I tell someone I am an engineer, they often ask what my degree is. My husband, also an engineer, never gets this question. I am 68 years old and I have gotten it over 100 times ...

“I am an engineer and I am a woman but I refuse to use those two words as if they are mutually exclusive.” Feminism is complaining openly about the state of women. It’s ostentatious, crude and in your ...

Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? When I applied to schools, I had chosen a major in environmental studies, but when I came to Admitted Students Day at CU and accidentally went on the ...

What does the #iLookLikeAnEngineer hashtag mean to you? There is no good way to explain to someone how it feels to be degraded because people do not think that you could be an engineer, whether it is ...

I thought I would never work in computer science. One of my earliest family memories is playing Mortal Kombat in my grandmother’s living room during Christmas. This was the start of my early immersion ...

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. One of my biggest sources of joy in life is satisfying my intellectual curiosity. I feel almost certain ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I tell someone I am an engineer, they often ask what my degree is. My husband, also an engineer, never gets this question. I am 68 years old and I have gotten it over 100 times ...

There! I've said it. When all my school friends were planning careers as doctors, bank managers or Whitehall manadarins, I was taking televisions, radios, motors (and sometimes insects) apart to find ...