Technology Engineering

Have you ever noticed that when you sit behind the steering wheel of your car you automatically insert the ignition key? Did you at any time stop and tell yourself to insert the key? NO! You did it without thinking about it, almost automatically! You know that when you have to drive your car you need to first insert the key. This is the stimulus and your nervous system responds by performing the action. Repeatedly performing an action to a stimulus conditions the mind to do the same action whenever that stimulus occurs and the action becomes a habit. Good habits and bad habits make up our personality.For a long time now sociologists and psychologists have studied bad habits as a social behavior. They have tried to analyze and find out why wrong habits are acquired and the methods by which they can be overcome. A Russian psychologist Pavlov, in1903 propounded the theory that by "conditioned reflex" bad habits can be overcome. He described it as the process in which the brain associated a certain action to a stimulus for a period of time and continued to react in the same way even when the stimuli no longer existed.Do you ... [more..]

Seniors in high school often have to make an important decision, which college major to choose. There are many majors to choose out of and students have to start choosing their major before even stepping foot on college campus. It is however, often a difficult decision because students have many interests and not enough expertise to make a decision.Many college students, in fact, change their majors during their college years; sometimes, students have to stay in college for 5 or 6 years because of the changes. Nowadays, many college including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University enter all of their students into a General Program during the first two years. However, some programs such as Engineering at North Carolina State University essentially force their students to start engineering when they take their first step on campus. So, it is still very important for a high school senior to evaluate his or her potential majors before applying to colleges and universities.The most important factor in choosing a major is interest. It is a horrible idea to spend the next four years of your life studying something you despise then having to work 40 or more hours ... [more..]

The word 'work' has almost become a forbidden word in some self-help articles and books. The phrases 'work hard' or 'work harder' are regarded by many as a relic of the Victorian age. I disagree with this negative view of work as you will see in the following account of a canoe race in a river which is still full of crocodiles.In early 2008, the BBC ran a TV series called 'Last Man Standing'. In this series, six young athletes from the 'civilized' west took on an exciting but frightening challenge - to compete against remote tribes at sports in which the tribes excelled. They also competed against each other for the title of 'Last Man Standing' i.e. the westerner who came first most often amongst the westerners.In the eighth and final program, the young athletes were trained in just five days to race their canoes upstream and then downstream in a crocodile infested river, the Sepik, in Papua New Guinea. Their main problem, at first, was just managing to stand upright in their dugouts.I once spent a few seconds sitting in a narrow racing canoe in the sea off the coast of Scotland. I started to paddle but my ... [more..]

Computer Engineering includes design, construction, execution, and maintenance of computers and computer controlled equipment. It is an interdisciplinary course, which incorporates both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering study. Computer Engineering education programs include topics on computer software and hardware.There are many universities that offer Computer Engineering either as a degree program or as a sub-discipline of Electrical Engineering. A few of the prominent Computer Engineering courses impart knowledge on the power systems, digital systems and electronics. They cover subjects that include digital logic circuits, computer systems, communication systems and electro-optics microprocessors. Others include logic circuits, micro-coding, digital image processing, lasers and machine vision.Courses in computer engineering are designed to build and operate software and hardware for computers used in everyday life as well as the supercomputers, used by scientists. The scientists use them to resolve sophisticated and complex problems related to their studies. Computer engineering education also provides information on computer network, Internet, distributed and web computing.There are graduate and postgraduate programs such as Master of Science or MSC and PHD computer engineering programs. Students learn programming, digital designing, computer architecture and embedded systems courses, in the bachelor program. In the postgraduate programs students learn advanced courses in computer architecture, ... [more..]