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To the Editor: A season doesn't pass that someone does not write in righteous indignation about there being too few women in engineering, as quoted in your November 2006 editorial. [...]

To the Editor: In the September issue, one of the authors claims the first scientific/ engineering calculator was the Texas Instruments TI-30. That's wrong. The first calculator that could duplicate [...]

To the Editor: Nothing in mechanical engineering has come close to the advances electrical engineers have made in microelectronics, computers, telecommunications, sensors, and the software to run them, since even [...]

It uses a star knob with ¼-20 thread and a threaded insert installed on the underside of a block of wood (in my case, white oak) shaped to fit in the miter gauge slot. Spotlight ISSUE NO. 301 January/February 2023 Star-knob stop In the foreground of the cover photo and the top righthand photo on p. 51 ("Boxes in Bunches" by Doug Stowe), there is a star knob attached to a stop in the miter gauge slot. When the star knob is tightened, it presses against the bottom of the miter gauge slot, lifting the block of wood to lock it in place. [Extracted from the article]

To the Editor: I think the alleged inability of new engineers to work in teams ('Time for Teamwork,' August) is a matter of trust. Engineering students don't trust their peers [...]

To the Editor: Great job on the Apollo article! (July) The Apollo program is a fractal. No matter what level of detail you examine it in, there are still levels [...]

I am writing in regard to the article about the I-35 bridge collapse ('Berke on safety: The I-35 Bridge: The truth is out there,' Jan. 24). My degree and PE [...]

To the Editor: In 'Managing the Unpredictable' (March), the author gets a handle on the issue. In my experience, part of the problem is that sometimes the people who know [...]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Rethinking the wheelchair" in the May 22, 2008 issue, "Kids like the technology. Now work on the parents" in the same issue, and "Berke on safety: The I-35 Bridge: The truth is out there" in the January 24, 2008 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article about the growth of mechanical engineering (ME) jobs in the March 2016 issue.