Indie Wire (blog)Engineering-Themed Competition Seeks 'The Next (Female) MacGyver'Indie Wire (blog)The Next MacGyver, a joint initiative of the National Academy of Engineering and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, hopes to offer a new face in …

Industry leaders discuss the future of engineeringArizona State UniversityThe National Engineering Forum and Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering hosted executive-level representatives from industry, academia, non-profit orga …

FuelFix (blog)Three more oil service firms cutting hundreds of jobs, wagesFuelFix (blog)The reductions come as hundreds of U.S. land rigs have gone idle amid billions in oil-company spending cuts, a reaction to plummeting crude prices, which have been cut …

Calgary Housing Boom Poised for Bust in Oil ReversalBloomberg(Bloomberg) -- The oil that fueled Calgary's housing boom has created the conditions for a bust. Genworth MI Canada Inc., the country's largest non-government mortgage insurer, said last …

Climate engineering no longer on the fringePhys.OrgDavid Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been a leading voice for assessing …

Sydney Morning HeraldThis almost forgotten metric is suddenly driving the oil marketThe Globe and MailThis past Friday, traders were bent over their desks, staring at their screens, waiting for 1 p.m. ET to see whether drillers extended their biggest-ever …

NJ.comW. Va. oil train explosion has N.J. raising concerns over rail safetyNJ.comEach day, long trains trailing hundreds of matte-black tank cars filled with highly flammable crude oil snake along the rails through New Jersey to a refinery in Linden. On on …

CNBCChicago trader: Oil to fall 6%, at leastCNBCThe most profound ripple effect realized thus far has been into the commodity sector, specifically oil. Not a news flash that crude has been halved since June, but the near daily 5 percent swings make the WTI …

CNBCSoros bet on Devon Energy, Transocean ahead of oil price riseCNBCThe actions appear to be timely, as oil prices and energy stocks have rebounded this month after a months-long slump. While Brent crude prices fell about 60 percent between June and Janua …

Reuters UKTotal, French Oil Giant, Reports $5.7 Billion Loss in Fourth QuarterNew York TimesLONDON — Total, the Paris-based oil giant, on Thursday reported a loss of $5.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2014 as it struggles with the deep slump in oil pri …