David Cox says today’s Road Worrier column ("Median debate takes a turn") gave short shrift to the work done by him and some North Raleigh friends to critique a 2005 NC State University safety study comparing raised medians to center turn lanes on busy four-lane roads.

So I’ll provide much more space for the debate here. ... [MORE]

A person or persons unknown committed an act of engineering. That's essentially what the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors concluded after examining an eight-page traffic analysis submitted by a North Raleigh neighborhood group to the state DOT (see today's Road Worrier with reader comments).

Since the board could not identify the author / culprit, it dismissed a charge that David N. Cox was practicing engineering without a license.

Cox distributed the report, titled "Analysis of Traffic Signal Warrants for Selected Intersections of Falls of Neuse Road," by email. (See document copy at the end of this blog post.)

But it didn't have his name, or anybody's name, as author. (It said, "Submitted by the Residents of North Raleigh," a silly stretch.)

The board doesn't know whether Cox was the author because he refused to answer its questions. ... [MORE]

NCSU expects more than 245 companies at next week's engineering career fair.

The event attracts more than just students from the university's College of Engineering. The last career fair, in February, attracted more than 3,000 job seekers.

Among the companies participating this year: bioMerieux, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Burt's Bees, Cree and Duke Energy.

The fair is from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 5 and 6, in the McKimmon St. at 1101 Gorman St. on the NCSU campus.

For more information and a complete list of the companies attending, go here.

ABB, with its North American headquarters in Cary and 900 employees in the state, is shifting 40 engineering positions from Raleigh to its Texas office and giving workers here an opportunity to relocate.

ABB is consolidating its Network Management operations in Sugar Land, Tex., over the next several months, ABB spokesman Bill Rose confirmed today. The unit produces software and other services to manage substations and electrical power grids for power companies like Raleigh-based Progress Energy and others.

"There are two separate groups within that division that have been working 2,000 miles from each other," Rose said.