Engineering Education
MagazineCategory: Features - Part 9
Jolly Good Fellow
By Thomas K. Grose Noel Sharkey’s academic career path has crisscrossed an impressive range of disciplines: engineering, computer science, philosophy, and psychology, among them. But it’s for his work in…
Revolutionary Approach
By Stephen Budiansky TO BUILD THE NEXT GENERATION OF UNMANNED FIGHTERS, BOEING AND NORTHRUP GRUMMAN ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH A NEW DESIGN PROCESS: SPIRAL DEVELOPMENT. Vehicles that guide themselves without human…
The Cheating Culture
By Jeffrey Selingo CHEATING IS ON THE RISE, BUT MANY PROFESSORS ARE RELUCTANT TO CONFRONT DISHONEST STUDENTS BECAUSE IT’S TOO DIFFICULT TO PROSECUTE THEM. Last spring, John K. Schueller, professor…
Apr 2004 – On Campus
THE WRITE STUFF Engineering students can’t write. This truism is proven wrong with every new issue of illumin online magazine (http://illumin.usc.edu). Put out by the University of Southern California, the…
Can Distance Education Be Unlocked?
By Thomas K. Grose Only a handful of schools offer undergraduate engineering degrees online, and there are some very good reasons why more haven’t taken the plunge. Michele A. Eller…
Harvard Turns a Corner
On a warm, sunny afternoon in September, 2007, Harvard did something it hadn’t done in more than 70 years: It opened a new school. The Harvard School of Engineering and…
Giants Of The Sea
– By Lisa Busch Since the first fishing vessel plied the sea, humans have dreamed of new ways to tap into the world’s ocean resources. Using ocean waves to generate…
The Dragon Slayer
The aggressive and charismatic Constantive Papadakis, an engineer turned university president, has transformed troubled Drexel into a thriving urban campus. By Kerry Hannon It’s only 7:30 a.m., but Constantine “Taki”…
New Age for the Elderly
By Joannie Fischer The legendary poet Dylan Thomas, who wrote “Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave,” would probably be very proud of…