For 60 years, the life work of Erick Schonstedt has been shining though the company and its exemplary instrumentation produced for surveying, geosciences, space exploration, and humanitarian causes. “MAGNETISM, n.  – Something acting upon a magnet. The definition is condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white...

The innovative Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science is educating the next wave of surveying and geomatics professionals at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi.If you were to endow a new facility for a surveying school and university campus, where would you put the building? To a surveyor, the choice is obvious: on the highest point...

Plumb, level, and precise: Surveyors maintain the highest level of positional integrity throughout the surveying and construction of Europe’s unique and striking new skyscraper. Until quite recently, you might not have seen a lot of European city skylines dominated by shining glass towers, but this is changing. New skyscrapers are rising in such cities as...

Years ago, when I was managing editor of a magazine serving the steel industry, I learned an important lesson in business from one of the greatest leaders in the steel-making profession, the chairman of the board of U.S. Steel Corporation.  Ed Speer was not an MBA from Harvard.  He was a steel worker who rose through the...