Engineering Education
Magazine
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…
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Why They’re Leaving
RESEARCH IN PRACTICE To retain students, help them feel they “belong.” By Kelly A. Rodgers and Rose M. Marra BY KELLY A. RODGERS AND ROSE M. MARRA Perhaps because of…
The 24/7 Tutor
+ BY THOMAS K. GROSE Interactive courseware guides students through Statics at their own pace. Many engineering educators are embracing research-proven active-learning techniques — hands-on activities and in-class demonstrations…
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…
Northern Ambition
A Canadian pursues top talent in the United States and abroad. BY PIERRE HOME-DOUGLAS As a crystallographer, Suzanne Fortier got used to viewing the world a little differently from most,…
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…
Higher Raises at the Top
ASEE conducts an annual engineering faculty salary survey. From 2007 to 2012, between 110 and 150 schools participated in the survey each year. Above are box-and-whisker plots that show approximate distributions…
Not All Black and White
A course probes the gray areas of engineering ethics. BY THOMAS K. GROSE In 1971, the Ford Motor Co. launched the Pinto, a big-selling subcompact with a big problem. If…
Deadly Ingredients
+ BY MARGARET LOFTUS Industry internships can boost students’ skills and confidence – and keep them in engineering. Starting that first job out of college can be nerve-racking, but newly…
Softening the Curriculum
BY HENRY PETROSKI The real world demands more than technical training. There has long been tension between those who advocate teaching more of the softer side of our profession and…