Creating Your Own Work- 1973 Oil Shock and Silicon for Space

When you’re working for a big company, like Union Carbide, they will have a big project of interest. The management has certain goals they want you to achieve- –very specific business goals. They’ll assign you the engineers you might need. You have a defined budget you have to keep within. You begin work on the…

Becoming an Engineer Who Can Write

Editor’s note:  It takes risk to move to a new country where you don’t speak the language.  Yet, Hiroshi Morihara comes from a family that had a history of risk taking. Risk taking is essential for innovation. He eventually taught technical writing to engineering students as an adjunct professor.  My mother told me in high…