Engineers often devise some great practical jokes. No doubt you've been involved in a technical practical joke more than once. Perhaps the greatest practical joke that required some technology and ...

Engineer's Day: Here are some of the funniest jokes The birth anniversary of world-renowned civil engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya is celebrated every year as Engineer's Day in India. Fondly ...

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 ...

I was looking at some old copies of my Editor’s Viewpoint (editorials) and came across this one from 2002 that is still relevant. Paraphrasing the old TV program “People are Funny,” this could be ...

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 ...

The subject line of the message read "Engineering Personality." Now, before going any further, let me apologize to my many engineer friends (and authors) for thinking the phrase announced a joke. Few ...