Engineering Education
Magazine
Seeing And Doing
+ BY MARY LORD + ILLUSTRATION BY MARK MCGINNIS Revamped curricula show freshmen what it means to be an engineer. Stephen Belkoff couldn’t get his first-year students to grasp the importance…
Category: Cover Story - Part 2
Summer 2011 – Feature
+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE What wows the Facebook generation? It’s not exactly thermodynamics, but clearly some engineering faculty know how to transfer their energy and wisdom into cool classes that…
The Interdisciplinarian
NSF’s director wants to tear down barriers to research collaboration. To understand Subra Suresh’s vision for the National Science Foundation, it helps to know the intent behind a sleek new…
Preparing Future Engineers Around the World
Overseas and at home, innovations abound in science, technology, engineering and math instruction. An expanded cover story explores ideas and approaches in Finland; South Africa, Japan, Israel; France; Brazil, China,…
Under Attack
BY DAVID ZAX + ILLUSTRATION BY LUNG-I LO Software engineers range widely across disciplines to unmask and defeat cyberfoes. But can they win? It’s the nature of wars that…
Peril In Small Places
BY CORINNA WU What dangers lurk in our expanding use of nanotechnology? Advertisers have always lured consumers with promises of the latest technology. Nowadays, the terms “space-age” and “new-and-improved”…
Shoring Up
Federal aid to states and grants to researchers may bring only temporary relief to universities. When Robert C. Holub was installed last October as the 29th chancellor of the University…
Life Support Systems
BY THOMAS K. GROSE ILLUSTRATION BY LARRY JOST Engineers offer ways to get American healthcare off the ‘critical’ list. As a nurse, I’m a menace. One of my patients…
Greener & Safer
BY MEGAN SCULLY ILLUSTRATION BY STUART BRIERS Researchers devise new technologies to protect troops, including a trash-to-energy refinery. But a solution to roadside bombs remains elusive. When garbage piles…
Staying on Track
For a number of Daliana Rodriguez’s classmates, first-year engineering presented such “a dramatic change of culture” that they couldn’t cope, she recalls. Jolted by the rigorous lineup of science and…