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The article discusses a program in California for engineers. In December Governor Schwarzenegger announced the program would educate 20,000 new engineers at state public universities and would make the certification process quicker for 3,000 California veterans who had performed engineering military jobs. The program is also going to expand the High Tech high state charter school organization that created 10 engineering charter high schools.

Ranks the top graduate schools of engineering in the U.S. Data including peer assessment, recruiter assessment, GRE scores, student/faculty ratio, and research expenditures; Top schools including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California--Berkeley, University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign and Georgia Institute of Technology.

The article discusses the staff-initiated Engineering Mentoring Program implemented by the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) in 2007. The program pairs senior engineers with new hires to ease such issues as a complex work environment, knowledge transfer, and professional development. The article also mentions that LACSD employees have gained better appreciation for the agency as a result of the one-on-one mentoring.

Presents engineering-related news items, compiled in September, 2000. Engineers' efforts to mitigate California's energy crisis; Promotion of safety for overseas engineering projects; Reliability of licensed professionals.

Focuses on the growth of the engineering industry in San Diego, California. Increase in the total number of local full-time licensed engineers; Emphasis on real estate development; Increment of gross billing.

The article profiles Reuben Goldberg, an engineer and inventor from San Francisco, California. Goldberg has earned engineering degree at the University of California, Berkeley campus. After moving in New York in 1907, Goldberg started his career with a syndicated cartoon published in "Weekly Inventions." Further, his contribution to the engineering education was his invention of solar power match lighter.

The article reports on the two college courses offered by the UC Davis Extension, the premiere provider of continuing education in Sacramento, California. Engineering series from UC Davis Extension offers hands-on instruction in Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration HVACR systems design field. The participants who are targeted by the series include architects, engineers, and construction managers. HVACR Systems Design I and II will be held in January-June 2007.

The article reports on Glen Gebhardt, an engineer with River Islands, hiring Concord, California-based Independent Construction Co. in mid-September 2005 for a specific project. The job was construction on six miles of what will eventually become 300-ft wide crown levees with slopes of 10:1 at a cost approaching $1 million a mile. Independent started by excavating 6 to 8 ft of soil and performing deep dynamic compaction with local material. The soils are mainly sandy, but compaction closes the pores to create a solid foundation.

The article reports that the National Society of Professional Engineer (NSPE)'s Future Directions Task Force has presented a preliminary working model for the future of NSPE to its state leaders at a summit meeting in San Diego, California, on January 16, 2005. The task force was charged with assessing and revising the mission and goals of NSPE. What they came up with was approved by more than 78% of state leaders in attendance, with a similar approval percentage for all voters. The task force has worked out a new direction for NSPE. What seems to be at the heart of the proposed model is a focus on organization at the state level, which may explain its overwhelming support among state leaders of NSPE.

This article reports that engineers hope a new type of precracking treatment will save money and improve recycling procedures over the lifetime of a one-mile stretch of asphalt roadway in La Quinta, California. The city awarded San Bernardino, California-based Mattich Corp. a $105,000 contract to microcrack a two-lane country road prone to large shrinkage cracks. In the next day or so, a steel wheel vibratory roller will be applied at 2 mph to introduce a network of hairline cracks and reduce stiffness by 40%. This is expected to decrease development of large cracks, says La Quinta assistant city engineer Steve Speer.

Reports on the opening of the Space Technology Center at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Park in Mountain View, California in February 2004 as a consortium of academic, industrial and government partners. Focus of the academic, industrial and government partnerships; Example of courses offered to professional engineers.

Editorial. Elaborates on campaigns supporting the introduction of Proposition 224, a bill which is anticipated to assist state engineering. Perceptions of the Professional Engineers in California Government union; Contentions of opponents of Proposition 224.