Engineering Education
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Learning From Disaster
+ BY CHARLES Q. CHOI + ILLUSTRATION BY I-SHAN CHEN The Gulf oil spill holds powerful lessons for future engineers. On April 20, executives from British Petroleum, which leased…
Category: Features - Part 4
A Winning Combination
+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE + ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN S. DYKES EPICS draws high school students to engineering through community service. Jessica Roggenbuck is midway through freshman year at the…
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…
Code Red Research
Universities’ homeland security centers provide innovation on demand. As a computer-science doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California’s industrial engineering department, Praveen Paruchuri titled his 2007 dissertation “Keeping…
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”…
Hype Or Hope?
BY THOMAS K. GROSE ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN SLEDD A once favored alternative fuel is shunted to the slow lane. Bruce Logan, director of the Hydrogen Energy Center at Pennsylvania…
It Takes A Community
BY MARGARET LOFTUS Role models, peers, and parents are key to a program drawing underserved students into STEM. As a sophomore at Manual Arts High School in South Central Los…
In Their Grasp
BY MARGARET LOFTUS Students with disabilities seldom pursue engineering or science careers. But that may be about to change. Travis Bilbee has always struggled in the classroom. Lectures are tough…
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…
Those Who Can, Teach
BY MARY LORD Campus centers whet instructors’ appetite for a fresh approach. Think back to your undergraduate days and what drew you to engineering. It probably wasn’t those long lectures…