Engineering Education
Magazine
Building Strategic Partnerships
Engineering schools are banking on entrepreneur programs to help students cash in on their ideas. By Dan McGraw Back in 1995, when Erik Selberg started work on a new Internet…
Category: Cover Story
Dance With the Dragon
A SHOUT OUT at the State of the Union address tells a federal agency its work finds favor at the highest levels. So when President Obama lauded brain research as an…
Folding Frontier
Yes, the engineering research of David Gracias does resemble the hobby of folding paper. And the way, under his microscope, nano-materials fold themselves into cubes and pyramids, like tiny polyhedrons coming…
Delivering Big Data
+ By Thomas K. Grose When Superstorm Sandy slammed ashore 5 miles south of Atlantic City, N.J., the night of October 29, where and when it hit came as no…
Bold Experiment
On MAY 2, 2012, some would argue, a new age in higher education officially dawned. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced they would each put $30 million into…
Dream Factory
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button charmed moviegoers with the story of a man whose life unfolds in reverse, from wizened oldster to cherubic baby. The 2008 film, starring Brad Pitt,…
Summer 2012 – Feature
Mary McCormick joined an environmental engineering firm after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 2006 from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. But after four months analyzing levees and dams…
Field Of Dreams
IT WAS A CLASSIC EUREKA MOMENT. Browsing in an antique store on vacation two years ago, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University senior Manu Sharma chanced upon a display of spiraling front-porch adornments…
A Deeper Partnership
It’s a flinty November morning and nearly every second-grade teacher in Harford County (Md.) Public Schools has bundled into a local school to witness a retooling of the district’s science…
Making It – Revolutionary manufacturing processes stir hope of a U.S. industrial revival.
Fuel cells are typically made from three materials that have to withstand heat ranging from room temperature to 800° Celsius. But because the materials expand at different rates when heated,…