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The Sky’s the Limit
This August, the world’s athletes will gather in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games. Although it will be the rainy season there, the weather during opening ceremonies will be perfect….
Category: Features - Part 7
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…
“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…
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….
Piercings, Not Pocket Protectors
BY MARGARET LOFTUS In her office at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., electrical and computer engineering professor Karen Panetta pulls out a stack of engineers’ portraits crayoned by elementary students…
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…
JAPAN’S SLOW-MOVING TIDE
BY LUCILLE CRAFT TOKYO Professor Tsuneo Kinoshita holds court in a windowless cubicle that somehow manages to accommodate a clutter of desks, chairs, whiteboards and laptops, not to mention the…
Getting in Gear
When American engineers talk about the need for the United States to better compete in the global economy, the discussion almost always centers on two countries: China and India. People…
APRIL 2006 – SHAKY GROUND – By Pierre Home-Douglas
By Pierre Home-Douglas Peter Nicholson had seen natural disasters before, but nothing prepared him for what he confronted in New Orleans. He arrived at the end of September 2005, one…
