Engineering Education
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Why Won’t She Listen?
By all accounts, Katherine Jeffery is a college admissions officer’s dream. The Lubbock, Texas, high school senior excels in calculus and chemistry, maintains a 99% average in physics, and, with…
Category: Cover Story - Part 3
“Patch and Pray”
To most Minneapolis commuters, Wednesday, August 1, was just another day of traffic tedium. The evening rush hour traffic was crawling at its usual glacial pace, the kind of stop-and-go…
Bangalore-jolt
BANGALORE, India — To get a feel for the ambition coursing through this country’s high-growth, high-tech sector, take a ride south of here to Electronics City, a 330-acre industrial park known…
What Price Security?
lan Russell, the chemical engineering professor who heads the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, is an expert in the interconnection of chemicals, biology and materials….
Powering Up the Pipeline
It’s September, the start of the school year, and Dan Moriarty’s engineering students have their first assignment: “design the world’s best organizer.” Working in teams over the course of the…
21st Century Professor
When Richard M. Felder launched his career as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 1969, he didn’t feel under any immediate great…
A FUTURE ENGINEER?
BY MARGARET LOFTUS AS a young boy growing up in Cuba, Oscar Garcia loved to tinker with radios, but it wasn’t until he got a toy motor kit for Christmas…
Booting Up
As a freshman electrical engineering student at the University of Texas-Pan American in 2002, Andres Lugo struggled. UT Pan Am is a commuter school with a large Hispanic population in…