Category: Education - Part 3

Education

E-Readers US Market

E-readers in the United States for the first time overtook sales of paperback books. They are more convenient and light. Hardcover books and textbooks are beyond e-readers. E-readers for the…

Education

THE NEXT REVOLUTION – By Lucille Craft

By Lucille Craft BEIJING—As the world’s most populous nation transforms itself from a farming nation to factory behemoth, another drama is unfolding, far from the assembly lines, steel foundries and…

Education

American Society for Engineering Education

ABOUT PRISM: Prism is the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education, a nonprofit association of more than 12,000 engineering faculty members, U.S. colleges of engineering and engineering technology,…

Education

Expanding the Mind

BY DAN MCGRAW The cliché of creative scientists has been put forth throughout history—the Einsteinian wild hair, locked in a room for days at a time, mumbling to themselves, not…

Education

From daVinci to the Classroom

Expanding the Mind Creativity is such an integral part of being an engineer, but how on Earth do you teach it? by Dan McGraw Illustration by Alicia Buelow Pure Motion…

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Toys that Teach

By Anna Mulrine Sherra Kerns recalls the day her daughter, then 6 years old, came to her one Saturday to say she wanted to get something from the top shelf…

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A Case for Case Studies

By Vicky Hendley One of the resources most commonly requested by Prism readers is case study information, and the World Wide Web has a variety of sites offering case studies on engineering…