Engineering Education
Magazine
Opening Minds, Raising Sights
Mentored by technical professionals, girls explore routes to upward mobility. One sunny Friday afternoon, Google engineering manager Patty Legaspi stood before a classroom of girls at Oakland Unity High School…
Category: Teaching - Part 2
A Case Study In Failure
BY MARGARET LOFTUS When Katrina breached New Orleans’s levees in 2005, engineering schools gained a valuable lesson in design flaws and the tragedy that can result. By the time…
Some Disassembly Required
BY CORINNA WU Reverse engineering – taking products apart to learn how they work – can be a valuable design training exercise. When Apple’s iPhone first came out in…
Getting To The Core
BY MARY LORD ILLUSTRATION BY LUNG-I LO Engineering educators team up with social scientists to find what matters most in teaching. Engineers are practical, hands-on problem-solvers for whom nothing…
A Push for Participation
By Phillip Wankat and Frank Oreovicz Active learning makes lectures a more powerful classroom technique. You’ve surely heard about active learning, cooperative groups, personalized systems of instruction and problem-based learning….
A Human Touch
By Lynne Shallcross STUDENTS AT THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES ARE LOOKING FARTHER THAN THE FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM. In the blisteringly hot October heat of Honduras, it wasn’t the…
Circle Of Support
By Margaret Loftus AS ENGINEERING PROGRAMS STRIVE TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN MORE FEMALE STUDENTS, SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES AND SERVICE COMPONENTS ARE NO LONGER THE EXCEPTION-THEY’RE BECOMING THE RULE. Although she excelled…
Doing Time
By Lynne Shallcross ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA ARE GOING BEHIND BARS. THEY’RE TEACHING MATH TO PRISONERS. It’s Wednesday night, time for engineering student Sean Rhea to head to class. But…
The Write Time and Place
By Robert Gardner ENGINEERING COLLEGE MAGAZINES CAN HELP TOMORROW’S ENGINEERS COMMUNICATE MORE EFFECTIVELY. To be successful, today’s engineering undergraduates must not only master technical material but also be able to…