Engineering Education
Magazine
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…
Category: Features - Part 2
DISSECTING DISASTER
+ BY LUCILLE CRAFT + PHOTO CREDITS: KYODO / AP IMAGES; RIGHT: AP PHOTO / YASUSHI KANNO, THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN After the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as in past accidents, Japan…
A Way With Waste
The Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet challenge inspires no-plumbing solutions that turn human effluent into useful products. The academic engineers who toil in the field of sanitation, especially sanitation for…
Great Expectations
Freeman Hrabowski knows how students can succeed in STEM – and makes sure they do. It’s not easy to remain a mere face in the crowd at the University of…
The 10,000 Challenge
+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE + ILLUSTRATION BY STANFORD KAY For years, U.S. industry has repeated the mantra “We need more engineers.” Now the White House is listening, with the President’s…
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…
Why Birds Don?
+ BY DON BOROUGHS + ILLUSTRATIONS BY STUART BRADFORD Eva Kanso has questions about the physical world. The University of Southern California mechanical engineering professor wants to know why fish…
Deadly Ingredients
BY CHARLES Q. CHOI Nanosatellites bring space discovery to campus at down-to-earth prices. What’s smaller than a breadbox, nearly as affordable, and is opening up space exploration? Though it may…